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Menopause and running

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Velociraptor 30 May 6:56pm, 30 May 2025 75,550 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor I only have one rather soft risk factor, Sharkie, which is that as well as having been almost constantly amenorrhoeic from 26 to 35 due to pregnancy and breastfeeding I've had some short episodes of nutritional amenorrhoea due to over-enthusiastic (and unnecessary) calorie restriction to lose weight in my teens and then what would now be called RED-S when I first started running in my late 30s and couldn't eat enough to avoid losing weight. Lots of peak bone-building years potentially lost.
EvilPixie 30 May 6:57pm, 30 May 2025 67,837 posts	Quote Pin EvilPixie I got my HRT after a phone call Then popped in for bloods after I had the prescription
phal 30 May 9:02pm, 30 May 2025 5,270 posts	Quote Pin phal If anyone’s got a New Scientist subscription…. I can only read the first half as I don’t - but thought it might be of interest if anyone does! newscientist.com
quimby 30 May 9:34pm, 30 May 2025 6,818 posts	Quote Pin quimby This bypasses the paywall: archive.ph
Rosehip 30 May 10:33pm, 30 May 2025 35,548 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip Thanks @quimby @phal will read when more awake
Elsie Too 31 May 9:21am, 31 May 2025 5,670 posts	Quote Pin Elsie Too That’s really interesting, thanks for posting @phal and @quimby
Rosehip 31 May 10:09am, 31 May 2025 35,553 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip Very interesting. I think it hints that when I took redundancy, feeling completely burnt out and pretty useless, I was actually struggling more with peri/meno than I realised rather than just plain overwork with 3 kids and travelling etc. I don't regret stopping my career at 45, but a bit more info and support might have made things different and the last couple of years more rewarding than they were. - the dept I worked in was very male oriented and had evolved into quite a young demographic as well so female peers to talk to were few and far between and my friendship group was spread across the world by then.
Little Miss Happy 31 May 11:09am, 31 May 2025 8,355 posts	Quote Pin Little Miss Happy I blamed my MH symptoms on CV19 as the worst of them coincided with the pandemic. As I'm hypothyroid and have pernicious anaemia I'm used to the brain fog and who wasn't stressed/anxious at the start of the pandemic? I wasn't having mega hot flushes or anything 'typical' like that. It was my physio who eventually suggested I might want to think about talking to a doctor about HRT as I was seeing her with lots of seemingly unrelated random niggles - she told me that a lot of her patients experienced this as part of the menopause. I'd never heard of that as a symptom.
phal 31 May 3:34pm, 31 May 2025 5,271 posts	Quote Pin phal Thanks @quimby 😀
sallykate 6 Jun 11:49am, 6 Jun 2025 17,206 posts	Quote Pin sallykate I managed to forget to bring my HRT with me when I travelled from London to Stockholm last Friday. If I needed any confirmation as to the difference it's made I certainly have it! The brain fog is back with a vengeance. (I'll be reunited with it on Monday, thank goodness).