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Life is supposed to be enjoyed, not endured. For some women menorrhagia (heavy menstrual bleeding) takes the joy out of life. It is very difficult to be spontaneous when you have to worry about embarrassing accidents, fatigue, and activities that may make bleeding heavier.

A recent survey by The National Women’s Health Resource Center (NWHRC) reported that excessive menstrual bleeding affects 10 million American women a year. The survey also reported that the majority of U.S. women with this condition do not seek treatment. The survey consisted of 653 women, ages 35 to 49, that experienced menorrhagia.The results found that 58 percent of the respondents had not discussed their condition with a health-care provider, even though menorrhagia greatly affected their lives and is easily treated.

Usually the normal period lasts 5 to 7 days and the blood loss is only one to two ounces per cycle. If you suffer from menorrhagia you can bleed 10 to 25 times that amount per month.

If you do bleed this heavy then you have experienced one or more of the following disruptive symptoms :

• Heavy bleeding that interferes with your daily activities or lifestyle and causes you anxiety, worrying about embarrassing accidents
• Heavy bleeding that includes large blood clots
• Periods that last longer than 7 days

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• Bleeding that soaks through one or more tampons or sanitary napkins every hour for several consecutive hours.
• Fatigue or shortness of breath. (Both are symptoms of anemia)

In addition to these symptoms :

• Do you have heavy periods even though you use birth control pills?
• Have you missed work because of your period?
• Do you tend to stay home when you have your period because it is too much trouble to go out?
• Do you carry a large amount of feminine products or even a change of clothes with you when you do go out?

If this is sounding a bit too familiar; your next step is to confer with your doctor.

There are several causes of heavy menstrual bleeding, and the correct diagnosis must be made in order to receive the appropriate treatment.

Your doctor should take a complete medical history and perform a thorough physical exam. Depending on the results of the history and physical exam your doctor may order additional testing such as blood work, pelvic ultrasound, sonohysterogram, hysteroscopy, endometrial biopsy or dilatation and curettage (D&C).

The good news is that there are safe and effective treatments.

For many women endometrial ablation provides an effective alternative to hysterectomy or hormonal therapy.

• Endometrial Ablation is a surgical technique that uses a laser, heat, or freezing, to remove the lining of the uterus.
• Uterine balloon therapy involves the use of a balloon that is inserted into the vagina, through the cervix, and placed into the uterus. The balloon is inflated with a sterile fluid until it fits the size and shape of the uterus. Then the fluid in the balloon is heated and the temperature is maintained for eight minutes while the uterine lining is thereby removed.
• Any form of endometrial ablation is not the right treatment for you if you plan on having children. This treatment destroys the endometrium, which is necessary to carry a pregnancy to full term.
• Endometrial ablation is not a contraceptive. You will have to use contraception correctly and consistently until menopause to prevent pregnancy.
• Pregnancy after ablation will be risky for you and your baby.

Visit Dr. Messina’s website at:

http://Physicianformulated.com/

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Are there signs and symptoms of menopause? Absolutely! It is a logical question to ask with millions of women experiencing one or more of the signs and symptoms of menopause at this very moment! The so-called ‘change’ will happen, but experiencing many of the symptoms of menopause as early as ages 30’s or 40’s is not normal.

Some of the signs listed below are subtle and may appear to have little relationship to being menopause symptoms. Here is a list of common signs and symptoms of menopause:

1 - Allergy symptoms

2 - Chronic fatigue and morning sluggishness

3 - Craving sweets, caffeine, carbohydrates with unstable blood sugar levels

4 - Depression, anxiety and mood swings

5 - Endometriosis

6 - Facial hair growth

7 - Hair loss, thinning hair

8 - Low metabolism

9 - Symptoms of low thyroid with normal T3 and T4 levels

10 - Urinary tract and yeast infections

11 - Uterine fibroids

12 - Water retention, unexplained weight gain especially in hips, waist and stomach

Menopause is not a disease. Menopause is a normal natural process for a woman whereby there will be a slowing and eventually a shutdown of the reproductive system. However, the problem is that many of the signs and symptoms of menopause indicate hormonal imbalance exists and there can have been damage to the body from eating poorly, stress and obesity. With the average age of menopause being about 51 in the USA, many women in the USA and industrialized countries experience one or more of these signs and symptoms of menopause many years earlier.

In the normal menstrual cycle, estrogen is the main hormone produced for the first 10-12 days following the previous menstrual flow. If ovulation occurs, the female body then produces progesterone which continues for the next 12 days or so. If there is no pregnancy, progesterone and estrogen levels both drop at around day 28 and menstruation begins. However, if there is no ovulation, progesterone will not be produced that month. This event is called an annovulatory cycle and is a typical occurrence today for women in their 30’s and 40’s. The result is that the woman then has an excess of estrogen and a deficiency of the vital hormone progesterone.

Many women in their 30’s and 40’s are actually having fewer ovulations, creating hormone imbalance and the signs and symptoms of menopause. And when ovulation ceases at menopause, progesterone levels fall to nearly zero. At the same time, estrogen is still being produced at perhaps 50% of the premenopause levels, again leading to hormone imbalance and the resulting signs and symptoms of menopause. If the woman has had a hysterectomy, surgical menopause means the woman no longer ovulates and produces progesterone.

Besides the signs and symptoms of menopause caused by missed ovulations or hysterectomy, excess estrogen is obtained every day from other sources. Examples are birth control pills, household chemicals and pesticides, foods that have been sprayed and construction materials.

How can a woman tell if the signs and symptoms of menopause are hormone imbalance related? One way is to take an online test for hormone health and related symptoms. The health test is used daily in a leading women’s health clinic, it takes just a few minutes online and it’s free.

Learn as much as you can about natural progesterone and estrogen supplementation and physician-recommended natural treatments for dealing with hormone imbalance and the symptoms of menopause.

Copyright 2006 InfoSearch Publishing

Besides symptoms listed above, read more about additional menopause symptoms and take the online womens hormone health test. Olinda Rola is President of InfoSearch Publishing and webmaster of http://www.safemenopausesolutions.com - a website of natural health articles for women of all ages.

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Originally a working man’s boot developed to make riding and
working safer for the cowboy, western boots have come a long
way. Far from home, home on the range, far from chaps and spurs,
and even farther from the rodeo circuit, western cowgirl boots
are a fun, feminine, and flirty way to dress up, or down any
outfit this fall.

There are vintage cowgirl boots, dressy cowgirl boots, and rough
out cowgirl boots. Stiletto heel or one inch heel. Square toe or
pointed toe. Distressed leather or lizard, or python, or
ostrich. Pink piping is being shown on a distressed brown
leather cowgirl boot, and teal piping on shiny black leather
cowgirl boots. Scrolled wingtips are available in blue, red,
green, and pink. Low rise or tall rise, fringed or buckled, take
your pick. Go online and have a pair of custom cowgirl boots
made. You can actually create your custom cowgirl boot from the
bottom up, the heel, toe, top scallop and stitch pattern.
Anything goes.

Western theme fashion is making a hit for fall 2005 and is being
called by some the “new sexy”. Cowgirl boots are being shown
this year dressing up short denim skirts that are being worn
with babydoll cami’s and cropped velvet jackets, and with denim
dresses accented with ornate silver and turquoise buckle belts.
They are seen dressing down Mexican inspired lush silk crepe de
chine dresses. They are being worn with multicolored tier skirts
with sexy lace tees and short denim jackets. Blue jeans of any
rise, low, medium or high are being shown with ornate embroidery
worn with western inspired leather tooled belts and fringed
suede jackets. The western look is made even sassier when paired
with a large turquoise necklace and chandelier earrings.

Cowgirl boots and western theme fashions are definitely making a
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Since the dawn of civilization the culminating point of a love relationship between two lovers was described as making physical love, or in a raw language ‘having sex’. Ancient and modern literature from most of the cultures have taken the concept of love making to the level of ecstasy and art. Psychologists found out through analysis that sex plays most important role in a love relationship, within lovers as well as between husband and wife. State laws have allowed divorce on the basis of inability to have sex in either of the married couple. Sexuality is an important part of life, and the impact is undeniable, both mentally and physically. To both sexes, male and female, sexual prowess and sexual ability to have sex is associated with their inner ego. But what happens when your ego is hurt at the bottom?

Erectile dysfunction is something that hits a man below the belt and leaves the man hopeless and extremely frustrated. The consequences of ED do not wait for my explanations; I know you can very well understand. May be some of you, who are reading my article, have actually gone through this phase of life, or presently going through. Until recently, erectile dysfunction was a hush-hush matter and men were ashamed of discussing their penile weakness even to their doctor. Avoiding sex night after night giving meaningless excuses, on the other hand, leads to making the wives doubtful of their husbands’ fooling around. Men were leading life as if there were no solution to it; this conclusion was drawn after going through all the “operation impossible” s. I know it is a long story of pain and suffering. Hold it before you lose the last hope, there is a spark of light at the end of the tunnel…Viagra.

You have heard about it but never tried it, am I right? Are you expecting any kind of assurance from a trusted source that you will not be blind after taking Viagra pill? Let me tell you that its not Viagra that caused the blindness but it was the reaction and the outcome of taking Viagra without prescription and not abiding by the restrictions given on the label. Again, Sildenafil, the main ingredient of Viagra, not only gives you strong erection per pill, it actually treat Priapism, a disease related to painful erection for more than 6 hours without any sexual stimulation or desire. At the same time, Viagra can slowly correct mechanism of the blood flow to the penis. If you were reluctant on the issue of discussing your ED with your wife, just go and see your physician and talk to him about your physical condition, ask him if you can take Viagra and get back to normal sexual life.

I do not consider the idea of living with ED as a good one. Since the introduction of Viagra, things have changed so fast that people are no longer referring to male erection problem as impotence, but a new term has popped up for it, ‘erectile dysfunction’ that is more scientific and less ego-hurting. Impotence is no longer a male characteristic or image, rather a name of a disease that is treatable. The impossible was made possible only by Viagra, the pioneer pill in treating erectile dysfunction. Why do not you try and enjoy even better sexual life?

The author, Monalisa Hyden, addresses health and sexual problem related issues. If you wish to help yourself and your loved ones, you can log on to http://www.viagracare.com for more information and advice.

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