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Doctor connected breaking menopause stigma
An estimated 1 cardinal women successful nan United States acquisition menopause each year, but it's still often surrounded by stigma — thing Dr. Sharon Malone is trying to change.
Malone, an OB-GYN and nan main aesculapian advisor of Alloy Women's Health, gets candid astir wellness and aging successful her new book, "Grown Woman Talk."
"Menopause is nan 1 inevitable communal acquisition that each women will have. If you're calved pinch ovaries, you will spell done menopause," she said on "CBS Mornings" Tuesday. "But I deliberation that what we've sewage to do is explicate to women, conscionable because we spell done menopause does not mean you person to suffer — we person galore options for really to dainty it."
During nan segment, "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King shared her favourite statement from nan book, which speaks to this message: "Menopause is mandatory, suffering is not."
- Gayle King and Drew Barrymore stock their experiences pinch menopause and nan 1 connection they would usage to picture it
Malone said, "As women, we benignant of person incorporated nan connection of suffering into our existence, and I'm present to opportunity we're done pinch that."
She besides urged women to advocator for their wellness without shame.
"In today's world, we person ne'er been much successful power of our destiny," Malone said. "Because I deliberation that nan conception that your expert was going to return attraction of you and counsel you, that's nary longer going to beryllium nan acquisition for astir women. We're going to person to recognize that we are successful power of our bodies and really we entree care."
Early signs of menopause, perimenopause
Perimenopause intends "around menopause," according to the Mayo Clinic, and refers to nan clip of life erstwhile nan assemblage is transitioning to menopause, which marks nan extremity of someone's reproductive years.
Malone says each female should beryllium reasoning astir this by property 40.
"The astir communal (symptoms) that women deliberation of are basking flashes, nighttime sweats, temper swings, encephalon fog," she said, adding that nan database doesn't extremity location — location astir 34 symptoms. "You request to beryllium alert of them, because if you don't cognize that this is each portion of a process, a transition, past you will spell to an endocrinologist because you gain weight aliases a neurologist because you deliberation your encephalon fog intends thing else."
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Dr. Jessica Shepherd, an OB-GYN and main aesculapian serviceman of Verywell Health, previously told CBS News different signs of perimenopause include:
- decrease successful energy
- menstrual cycles that travel and go
- sleep shape disturbances
- irritability
Some of these symptoms tin besides beryllium knowledgeable during menopause, she noted.
The Mayo Clinic adds that immoderate group whitethorn besides acquisition vaginal and bladder problems, changes successful intersexual function, bony nonaccomplishment and changes successful cholesterin levels.
- More connected perimenopause: The often-overlooked shape of menopause, explained.
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- Menopause
- Women's Health
Sara Moniuszko
Sara Moniuszko is simply a wellness and manner newsman astatine CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, wherever she was selected to thief motorboat nan newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking and trending news for CBS News' HealthWatch.
