Oct/110
Menopause and Sex – Why Do You Lose Interest in Sex During Menopause?
All women suffer from changes in their sexual patterns when under menopause. There is no way to avoid it and understanding what they are going through helps eliminate potential conflicts that can become a threat to the relationship. Keep in mind, however, that some women might find this new inability as an advantage and refrain from resorting to treatment to counter this symptom.
Less Sexual Activity
One thing we should know about menopausal women is that they show less sexual advances as compared to before they reach the condition. Estrogen is one of the hormones produced in a woman’s body that maintains the health of your reproductive system — like your vagina, as well as making sure that your sexual interest is at its peak. Once the level drops, then you can be sure that their interest towards sexual intercourse drops as well.
The hormonal imbalance caused by the gradual decline of their reproductive system results to a decrease in their libido that makes them less enthusiastic to sexual intercourse. This doesn’t mean that they are unable to have sex; it’s just that it harder for menopausal women to reach a climax or find the drive to go into a satisfactory orgasm.
Menopausal women are also prone to sudden weakness or fatigue that also comes with the hormonal imbalance in their system. Let’s face it; it wouldn’t be much fun to have sex when you’re body is dead tired.
The Pain Involved
Women under menopause might encounter some pain and bleeding during sexual intercourse, which may be one reason why they try their best to stay away from the activity. Decrease in estrogen levels causes the vagina to dry up and become less lubricated that might cause lacerations which can be very painful during intercourse. After all, who can enjoy a good sexual activity when things start to become painful?
Emotional Changes
Menopause women are always under emotional stress, experiencing sudden bouts of sadness, anxiety attacks, depression, anger, and the likes. It is quite possible that men who are making sexual advances to their partners might encounter animosity or irritability that might make them think that they don’t love you anymore.
Keep in mind that it is hard to concentrate with sex when you are depressed or sad about something that you can’t explain. It might take a while for your female partner to rise above the emotions, but you need to understand that their conscious mind is dominated by their emotional experience due to the condition and your drive to win them over to your way of thinking might only make things worst.
Apr/110
Stage 4 Breast Cancer and Common Methods of Treatment
With diagnoses of Stage 4 breast cancer you know the cancer has expanded to other places in the body. Focused treatment of this stage of breast cancer at present does not offer a cure for this disease. Treating with radiation or surgery is not adequate. Other areas involved can include the brain, liver, bones or lungs. Even though it is commonly life threatening at some point, patients with this stage of breast cancer can live for many years to come.
Treatment to reduce the size of the cancer can slow down the disease. It can make the patient feel better and allow for a longer life for the patient.
Many factors can impact the efficiency of a specific treatment for a patient. Some of the common treatments used with Stage 4 breast cancer are hormone therapy, biological therapy, radiation and surgery, clinical trials, and use of other drugs impact.
Cancers that need hormones to grow are hormone receptor positive cancers. Women treated for hormone receptor positive cancers can be treated successfully with hormone therapy. Newer drugs, such as the aromatase inactivator Aromasin, along with aromatase inhibitors Femara and Arimidex are presenting great promise in treatment. These drugs cause a decrease in the amount of estrogen the patient’s body makes. These drugs can choke the cancer causing it to slow down cutting off the supply of estrogen the cancer requires in order to thrive. Another drug used successfully for many years to block the effects of estrogen is Tamoxifen.
Herceptin is a new drug used to treat women with metastatic breast cancer that is HER2 positive. Biological therapy is however a more recent method for cancer treatment. A surplus of a protein identified as HER2 makes the cancer spread quickly in almost twenty five percent of women with breast cancer. Herceptin stops this protein from making the cancer cells to grow. It may also give strength to the immune system to fight the cancer on its own. Often it is used along with chemotherapy.
Sometimes radiation and surgery are used in treatment of this cancer. These treatments may help treat the pain and other symptoms in places the cancer has spread. Radiation and surgery are not used to cure cancer.
Any successful treatments available today started out in a clinical trial. A clinical trial makes available new and advanced treatments. Many new treatments, new therapies, new drugs and new combination are presently in clinical trials. They are open to many women with Stage 4 breast cancer in today’s fight against breast cancer.
Nausea, infections, and fatigue are some of the side effects brought on by breast cancer treatment. These side effects may be relieved with the help of other drugs. This can help women with Stage 4 breast cancer deal better with this disease by a reduction in some of these side effects.
Aug/100
Depression and Menopause
From the studies carried out it shows that between 8% and 15% of menopausal women suffer from Depression. This stage hit at most during the state of perimenopause which is the first stage that leads to menopause. Menopause stage is so hard and difficult to deal with since apart from dealing with your own problems you also deal with families and work problem which end up making your menopause unbearable.
Depression in menopause also does occur due to regular hormones in the body. These hormones are known to affect the mood center of the brain and level of estrogen does change through out the menopause period. When the level of these hormones drops, that is when you experience sadness and severe drop of moods which results to the problem.
Many women are at high risk of developing this problem during there menopause period. This is especially if they had suffered from it when they were at the age of 20 it is likely to reoccur. Also those who had gone through surgery are at more risk since surgery causes the drop of estrogen levels and increase anxiety symptoms. Also you should avoid smoking and unnecessary stress since it increases the possibility of getting depressed during that menopause stage.
During this age it is very necessary to seek medical help if you don’t want to feel bad all your life. There are several options that can be suggested to help you when you are going through with this depressing period. Estrogen therapy help in decreasing the level of estrogen which affects the mood change of the body. This therapy can positively change your mood swing especially when combined with an antidepressant.
Antidepressant medication is also known for treating mood swings by giving it a boost. This is done by increasing the amount of serotonin in the brain. Psychotherapy is another excellent way of fighting Depression. Combined with medical treatment is by help of social work’s and other medical assistance who guide you on how to make negative thoughts to positive thoughts.
By following this procedure during your worst moment in menopause, you will be able to leave a very peaceful life with no worry. If you still find problems on how to deal with your depression during this stage you will be better to seek a doctor’s opinion and help so as to tackle this problem and live a peacefully and healthy life.
Jul/090
Slaves hormones. That’s why women were less successful than men
The tendency of women to realize less than men in the workplace is, according to the scholar Susan Pinker, not only socially but also biologically determined. Years of struggle for the conquest of gender equality and the empowerment of women were therefore useless? In fact, that since the decree, where a woman can dare to be a biological predisposition against which it cannot be anything. In the book “The Sexual Paradox, extreme men, gifted woman and the real gender gap” American psychologist, suggests that women, although equally motivated and capable, sometimes even more than men (packing with him this time there by a woman!) not manage to reach the heights of success due to low production of testosterone in the face of an abundant secretion of oxytocin, a hormone involved in the mechanisms of orgasm and motherhood.
In particular, according to Pinker, women are more likely, by virtue of their hormonal characteristics, to choose jobs that have a social and why more communication and empathic to have a greater range of interpersonal relationships and interests that go beyond the work. Would always be the oxytocin to carry the working woman to feel less satisfied with their work unless forced to do it is to spend less time with their children or limit their social life. The hormones in practice lead women to make career choices and life that limit their ability to “reach the summit.”
The same Pinker also argues that with motherhood, along with the hormonal changes that lead women to prefer a career to their children, but also improves the ability to manage these problems. The desirable social change for women workers will help to make life a little easier for those seeking to reconcile work and family, but will not change things. The role of social and cultural factors that affect unquestionably the difficulties that many women, not only mothers, face in the workplace, it seems not to have much importance, would be crucial as the action of hormones that already begins in the womb and continues for life.
Jun/090
Cookies come from Japan to increase breast
It seems that we women no longer have need of the Breast additives to make more generous our forms. From now on it will be enough to earn some gobbling of biscuits plus size bra! Comes from Japan where they market the miraculous Fcup biscotti cookies that promises to increase the size of the breast. The wonder would be possible due to their content of Pueraria Mirifica a grass of Thai origin, which contains phytoestrogens, plant substances similar to human hormones.
Manufacturer dares even Dosage: daily dose of biscuits to take to achieve the desired effect would be equal to two cookies a day. But you do not specify how long the treatment should last and how long the effect. Each pack contains four biscuits from 68.7 calories each cost the modest sum of 290 yen (less than 2 Euros). But this is not all: it would indeed already available on the Japanese market also Fcup tea making breast enlargement, produced by the same parent company. Suffice then a snack of tea and cookies a day to see their breasts increase in size. No word yet but if the daily intake of phytoestrogens may have adverse effects on health.
However the usual malignant argue that the effect would be attributable simply to miraculous’ weight gain, which will inevitably affect the size of the breast, and that the results will certainly be visible on the buttocks and thighs. But really harmless two biscuits a day (sounds are also good) can fatten up to this point? It remains then to understand if the men casually, maybe fishing at random inside the pantry looking for something to munch on, they had to eat the miraculous FCup cookie will meet also with a generous, as unwelcome, at least one hopes for their partners, take off.
Jan/090
The risks of lightening creams
It was launched by a group of British doctors a warning regarding the use of bleaching creams on the market leaked. These preparations would indeed, as the British trials, which are responsible for the onset of various health problems including the syndrome of Cushing, a rare but serious disease that affects mainly women. Hammersmith Hospital in London, doctors, thanks to the examination of several cases, have conducted research, published in the authoritative medical journal Lancet, which denounced the widespread illegal preparations to lighten the skin and their role in severe irritation and drastic hormonal imbalances.
The most striking case is that of a young twenty-eight of those who admitted they had used for seven years of a whitening cream but not purchased in a pharmacy in a small shop not further identified. Currently she is, according to doctors, who suffers from Cushing’s Syndromes, and thus have developed a serious hormonal imbalance that besides having done buy thirteen kilograms and have caused the bruising and hair on the back and face, has cost possibility of becoming a mother, making it infertile. The creams contain accused Hidrochinone fact, a molecule depigmenting whose use is banned for cosmetic purposes and steroids.
It would have been the high level of steroid hormones to cause Cushing’s syndrome in women. But according to dermatologist Milan Riccarda Serri the risk of developing this syndrome is linked more to the use of cortisone, the syndrome is indeed caused by an excessive production of cortisol, than to Hidrochinone which would entail no risk hormone. The molecule bleaching because although prohibited purposes cosmetic is used in pharmaceutical products. Tricia Tan and Tony Goldstone, who coordinated the research, stressed that the illegal market of these preparations fruit in Britain alone millions of pounds a year and that patients are often completely unaware of the dangers.