Many years ago my husband asked me, "Why do so many women cut their hair short when they get older?"

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8. Your boasting to

women who wake up in a pool of sweat in the middle of the night and must get up and change the bed is not appreciated.

Everyone has a different 'Change.' And since the medical community could not give a shit about women's health and the misery some of them endure, many are stuck w/ hot flashes, loss of memory, and terrible depression....but go ahead and boast.

And I like HRC's hair.

I would NOT cut my hair for hot flashes....I'd pull it into a ponytail. When it's short, one's hair can look as if she has just stepped from the shower.

I've studied this topic and read many books. There are no single solutions to every woman's Change.

But don't go on Premarin. Do you know all about that? Horse stables in N. Dakota and other out of the way northern states are filled with mares (mar). They are artificially impregnated (Pre). Then the mares stand in a very small stall with a catheter that collects her urine (rin) until she has the foal. She is allowed to stay w/ the foal for a few days and then the foal is taken away for dog food.....and then the whole cycle starts all over again. A mare may live through 4 pregnancies until death.

This is what our great medical community has done since the 1950's. That is their answer to hot flashes. Millions of women ingested mare urine and didn't know it...until breast cancer rates went up earlier this decade.

Progesterone made by a Pharmacist will be the best thing for a woman to try during perimenopause. Natural progesterone, just like our bodies produce, is a very good answer. DO NOT BE CONNED WITH progesteRIN, OK? The pharmacist can COMPOUND the progesterone for you...then it's just finding the right dosage.

Women never run out of estrogen...usually goes to 20%, but we lose mostly all of the progesterone....and that is the hormone that makes us feel good. Oh, get the progesterone in CREAM form!!! Then it bypasses the liver.

'never had hot flashes.' That Karma will come back and get you....

Good luck to OP! I'm sorry for what you are going through. Of late, I have read of women....years after perimenopause....getting hot flashes all over again. And the medical community does NOTHING.