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Just have a question. How many ladies feel like just when they will recover from Lyme they will get menopause?
I'm 45. No menopause yet but I bet as soon as I recover I'll start with peri menopause.
I mean you have to be pretty unlucky to be bit by a tick in Ohio. I mean what are the chances?
I'm feeling a bit negative about the whole thing at this point.
Everything I read is one medical person says this then another this. What do you believe.
After having it 7 years prior to dx is there a possibility to be cured?
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sutherngrl
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Yes. I am 50 and still no peri menopause. My hormones in that area are "normal". I keep hoping that I am going through it and just don't know it. None of my test are ever normal anyway. And as bad as I feel, who knows!
Yes I believe in a full recovery. Even though I get down about it taking so long, I don't ever stop believing in getting better one day.
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Ocean
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MLD,
Awww... I HOPE I am better before I hit menopause (I'm 30). I don't know how unlucky getting bit by a tick in OH is, I think it is MUCH more common here than people think!
I know A LOT of people with MS, FM, CFS. I'm willing to bet a BUNCH of them have Lyme. We are right next door to PA who has one of the highest numbers of Lyme cases (if not THE highest).
I think it's Miseducation about Lyme. I tried contacting my local paper to try to get them to do a Lyme story on me to get the word out, but my e-mail apparently did not go through.
Anyhow, hope you are better before menopause. My mom is 52 and it in it, and she feels fine, every once in a while will feel a little warm, but not like she's heard about. She exercises like CRAZY though and eats mostly raw foods. That probably helps.
Keebler
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Menopause can be fine. Knowledge is good, though.
Peri-menopause comes long before the last period.
None of this has to be rough and for me, it was all a breeze. But I did not KNOW that bladder accidents could be from low hormones and I suffered needlessly with that for 2 decades.
Post-menopause now for ten years (at age 55) I sure wish I had read up on all this. I never had hot flashes so thought I could escape learning about menopause.
But, thanks to a friend insisting that I watch a recent Oprah program with her, just this past month I began bio-identical hormones.
Bladder trouble I'd had for 20 years got far better in just one week's time.
This Oprah program is very enlightening. I hope you can watch it and get the books. Your library should have them all.
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