Menopause: What if we have stopped believing what we have heard? 7 received ideas (finally) declared by experts

According to a recent study, 41 % of women still consider menopause as a taboo subject. And 72% also avoid talking about it publicly. Vichy Laboratories – Dickstract these persistent myths and remember that menopause is neither a disease nor any fatal.

Fighting the negative representation of menopause is positively and directly affects women’s way of living. These symptoms exist, but their intensity and nature vary. So why do so many false beliefs remain? Decision with experts who campaigns for a more enlightened approach and are released from this required twist point.

1. “This is the end of femininity”

Stopping the rules marks the end of reproduction, not femininity, Omena Applications (Oamena. App), a specialist psychologist Linda Kemppe, which is with women in this delicate moment in her life. Loss of femininity is negative belief that weighs the most on women who testify on our forums. They are often embarrassed to talk about their menopause, even with their husbands or friends. One of them said to me: “We were ashamed to be our rules, and now we are ashamed to not have them. ,

2. “Menopause represents a problem”

If we have a negative image of menopause, this is because it has been considered in a pathological manner for centuries, the Sociologist Cécile Charlap in the menopause factory (CNRS éditions, “Biblis”, 2022). “In the early 19th century, menopause was explained by the fact that women, with age, had less strength to expel menstrual blood. This blood retention was considered to be the cause of many disorders – cancer, polyps, ulcers … “Even today, menopause is often seen as a problem (while 10 to 15 % of women will have no symptoms) and not as a natural step.” Is. “

3. “All women have the same symptoms”

For 70 % of women, menopause is first associated with heat puffs, and for 49 %, with night sweat. Even if these symptoms occur most often, sixty symptoms are listed: fatigue, combined pain, dizziness, concentration disorder, urine leak* … “It is true that some are very rarely discussed, for example mood disorders or depression, that women do not necessarily connect to menopause. There is a great opercy in symptoms, whose patients or doctors are given adequate information,” Consider, which is engaged in all for the menopause collective (allformenopause.fr), who want to make health professionals, public authorities and companies more awareness.

4. “Symptoms begin only during menopause”

“Symptoms often begin on top of menopause, in this transition period called perimenopause and which can last for many years.” For example, all for menopause collectors, offer 45 to create “health courses” from 45 to improve women’s care even before the end of their rules.

5. “Treatments are dangerous”

“Many points were questioned today, the 2002 American study WHI (Women’s Health Initiative) contributed to a huge decline in hormonal treatment in France: about 60 % of women were affected in the early 2000s, while today only 8 to 10 %, which are very low, which is very low,” Loren Matrot Mantlett said. For a specialist, it is up to the doctor that for every patient, the balance of profit/ risk according to his history should be assessed. “When thm [traitement hormonal de la ménopause] It has been started in ten years after menopause, rather a protective effect from the heart point of view, ”she says.

6. “Libido is necessarily affected”

One of the two on an average suffers from a genitinian syndrome of menopause, a set of symptoms associated with estrogen deficiency. However, the decline in libido is not unavoidable and it is very high for the couple’s wear. “Most of the time, the vaginal drought is not present when women start a new story after 50 years: their desire is stronger than biology,” psychoanalytic and manosamajnikya is not the author of Catherine Granzard, no age to enjoy (Laras, 2020). More and more women also produce sexual renewal which occur with these years: sometimes the rules are painful, the end of contraception, the discovery of a more playful sexuality …

7. “It is normal to suffer”

If vaginal dryness makes your sex painful, then sorrow has no meaning. Many times are trivial or ignored, this symptom still affects one of two on average for menopause. “This is not unavoidable, as there are many effective local remedies,” gynecologists recall Loren Masitrot-Mantlets.

Not waiting for the Act: Unlike hot brightness, which lasts for seven and a half years on an average, according to a study published in Jama Internal Medicine (2015), the vagina will not disappear with drought time. Without management, it can deteriorate and cause chronic discomfort, which increases the risk of daily discomfort and pain during sex. It is necessary to talk about these symptoms with a health professional, as solutions exist to live this stage of life completely without unnecessary suffering.

*Studies “Let’s talk about menopause”, essay, June 2023.