A woman shares her experience with menopause hot flashes and her successful journey to managing them with a low-dose estrogen patch. She discusses her initial reluctance to use hormone therapy, her appointment with an ob-gyn specializing in menopause, and the effectiveness of the patch in alleviating her symptoms. She even mentions a relatable anecdote about actress Naomi Watts' experience with a hormone patch.
I made a decision many years ago: I wasn’t going to go through menopause. Hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, brain fog—this didn’t sound like a party. I figured I’d skip it. For a long time it looked as though my plan would work: I was in the latter half of my fifties before I had a single hot flash. Then I had another one. And then—I think you know where this is going—I had another one. My master plan had failed! But this didn’t mean I was going to go sweatily into that bad night.
What interested me most—and by now this shouldn’t surprise you—was her experience with the patch. Watts writes that when she was about to have sex for the first time with actor Billy Crudup, whom she would go on to marry, “I went into the bathroom before getting naked and furiously attempted to scratch the hormone patch off my body.” I had the opposite problem: My first two patches came off of their own accord before time was up.
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