Tag Archives: periods

Menopause – the messy bits

| December 12, 2022

From flash flood bleeding to fibroids and polyps – menopause can be messy. Dr Carys Sonnenberg explains what’s going on.   We women go through a lot around menopause and our hormones play a big role in quite a few of them. Our periods can change. They can become lighter, heavier, closer together or further apart – of a combination of all of these. Beyond the irregular bleeding there can be flash floods of heavy bleeding or even unexplained bleeding. Then there are conditions like Endometriosis, or adenomyosis that can cause heavy bleeding and pain. and that’s not all, there…

menopause symptom relief: what can help?

| March 19, 2019

80% of women will experience menopause symptoms. Dr Unnati Desai discusses some of the treatment options.   It’s stories like these that make you realise menopause symptoms can make life a living hell for some women. This is the story of Jane Lewis, the author of Me and My Menopausal Vagina: “Hello, I’m Jane and I’m 52 years old. I live with my husband of 34 years, have three grown up daughters, a granddaughter, and two dogs: Bertie and Bonnie. I used to live a really active life but then something changed.  I’m not quite sure the exact moment when things went so…

PMS and chocolate cravings

| August 5, 2017

Is PMS your sweet excuse to indulge in “forbidden” foods like chocolate? Georgios Tzenichristos, director of London’s LipoTherapeia clinic, finds out. What if chocolate cravings, experienced by 50% of women before their period, were the result of culture rather than a natural physical response? Scientists at the the State University of New York seem to think culture could be the culprit. In a recently published paper they have shown that out of 275 women of diverse backgrounds, foreign-born women were half as less likely to experience menstrual chocolate craving than women born to U.S.-born parents. And, they were two-and-a-half times less…