The distinction between the two is very important. Living with ovarian menopause could save your life and enduring your life in menopause could end your life.i
Living your life with ovarian menopause means you understand that your reduced health is due to the loss of your ovarian hormones. You understand that it makes sense that your health can be restored by using all of the ovarian hormones in a similar way to how your ovaries once provided hormones to you.
Enduring your life in menopause means you may choose or have no choice but to accept minimal or no treatment while enduring your symptoms and subsequent ill health. You understand that your reduced health is due to the loss of your ovarian hormones. However, you or your doctor feel it’s best to avoid treatment with ovarian hormones,
Living with ovarian menopause vs. Enduring life in menopause
Restoring your health vs. Restoring little to none of your health
Whether you’re living your life or enduring your life after the loss of your ovarian hormones, there are many facts about ovarian hormones that everyone can agree on.
Everyone can agree, symptoms or not, a woman is less healthy without the positive influence of her ovarian hormones in nearly every cell in her body.
Everyone can agree that the ovaries primarily produce 3 hormones, progesterone, testosterone, and estradiol.
Everyone can agree that these 3 ovarian hormones work together, not independently, to maintain a woman’s health.
Everyone can agree that estradiol stimulates cell growth and progesterone, and testosterone suppresses estradiol stimulation down to a safe level, which is an important reason why cancer is so rare in younger women.
Everyone can agree that a woman’s body does not signal that there is no more need for her ovarian hormones.
With so much agreement, getting treatment should be straightforward but unfortunately, it is not.
Treatment for living with ovarian menopause would include the use of the primary hormones of the ovary – estradiol, testosterone, and progesterone.
Treatment for enduring your life in menopause would involve a minimum of ovarian hormones and looking for drugs other than ovarian hormones.
Based on the ubiquitous view that the loss of ovarian hormones does not harm a woman’s health, more likely than not, a woman would choose to be “in menopause” rather than choose to see herself “living with ovarian menopause”.
This view of being “in menopause” prevails
Even though there are no studies that demonstrate that bones are just as strong without the positive influence of ovarian hormones.
Even though there are no studies that demonstrate that the vagina and clitoris continue to be ready for robust sexual function without the positive influence of ovarian hormones.
Even though there are no studies that demonstrate that restorative sleep architecture will continue unabated without the positive influence of your ovarian hormones.
Even though there are no studies that demonstrate the risk of heart disease will continue to be low without the positive influence of your ovarian hormones.
Even though there are no studies that demonstrate that quality of life is just as satisfying without the positive influence of your ovarian hormones.
Yes, it is normal and natural for us to live long enough for our organs to eventually fail. However, we never lose our need for what our organs do for us.
The most effective treatments are those based on the organ that failed.
The prevailing view that the loss of ovarian hormones does not harm a woman is wrong.
i ‘Vaginal Dryness’ Can Be Fatal. No, Really. (medscape.com)