Myths About Post Menopausal Women That Block Women from What We Need:

Menopause and the years leading up to it CAN BE TREATED safely and effectively.

 If you feel ignored and unheard by your doctor or nurse practitioner, your feelings are correct!  As a group women are not listened to and often dismissed as emotional and not smart enough to understand “complicated” medical information, by the Misogynistic American medical community, the US governmental agencies who make the rules for what women need.  If you feel unheard and dismissed by your doctor, your impression is probably right, and you need to vote with your feet and leave that doctor for someone who listens to you and treats your symptoms and conditions that undermine you and your productivity.

The Myths that the majority of people believe are created by men and broadcast by premenopausal women and the media who have no first-hand knowledge of the problems that women contend with when they become pre-menopausal. Here are just a few of the lies and Myths that we must contend with.

• Women love the freedom of being in menopause! No worry about pregnancy or bleeding.  LIE
• Women can’t become president’s companies or the President of the United States because we are going to hit the red button to destroy the world because we experience PMS before menopause, and after we just can’t think or make educated decisions. LIE
• Symptomatic Menopausal Women are Over-reacting to a “normal” Phenomenon that “strong” women take in their stride. LIE
• Women complain about menopausal symptoms to get attention. LIE
• Women’s menopausal symptoms are really from psychiatric disease. LIE
• Women who complain of bleeding all the time don’t need a hysterectomy! Just use medication (that doesn’t work). LIE
• Women’s menopause symptoms are from behavior problems. They need counselling! LIE
• Menopause should be a wonderful time of your life! Right!  LIE

All these LIES are damaging to the women who need medical treatment.  We don’t need name-calling, subtle dismissal of our symptoms by our doctors, one size fits all non-medical treatment like vitamins and herbs, or basically categorizing our physical symptoms as imaginary or mental which allows doctors to be excused from treating our hormone deficiencies.

No sex drive, painful sex, insomnia, fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, fatigue, hot flashes and sleep disturbances, migraines, loss of muscle weight gain and fatigue, depression and anxiety are physical symptoms of menopause and pre-menopause, that can all be treated with estradiol, testosterone and in some cases progesterone replacement.  Menopause and the years leading up to it CAN BE TREATED safely and effectively but we aren’t offered treatment by the doctors who work for our insurance companies! Refusing to provide the hormones you need at menopause is denying you the treatment for literally losing the hormones that made you, YOU is not only disturbing but scary!

Medical care includes the replacement of waning hormones The only differences between menopause and testosterone loss and hypothyroidism,  Cortisol deficiency (Addison’s disease), Parathyroid deficiency, Growth hormone deficiency in children are all paid for by insurance and doctors willingly treat these illnesses because they are not only paid to do so but they have taken a Hippocratic oath to treat the symptoms and diseases of the patients who come to them.  However, in my office I hear the struggles that women have had getting treatment for their symptoms.  Their doctors generally use the excuse, “I don’t believe in hormones.” So, they get out of treating half of their patients over 50.  Hormonal treatment isn’t a religion, it is a condition that 50% of the population will have in their lifetimes. If your doctor is a PCP Primary Care Physician or OBGYN, then they have the training and the duty to treat you.

Sadly, these lies have sculpted how women are looked at in the American and English-speaking countries.  Misogynistic beliefs are meant to keep women in a second-class status. The result is ignoring the simplest and the most affordable menopausal treatment -Estrogen and testosterone- and profit from our menopausal pain by serving up very expensive treatments for each of the many complaints secondary to menopause that no women can afford.  eg: one drug for dry vagina, another for just hot flashes, a third for4 the mood changes that occur with menopause, and another for osteoporosis.  All these symptoms can be treated with a combination of testosterone and estradiol, and you can get your sex drive back too! If you think that your government is going to help you , remember the leaders  in US government are mostly men who buy-in to the destructive misogynist group think!

Lie #1: Women love the freedom of being in menopause!  No worry about pregnancy or bleeding anymore.

Menopause might have been a relief from bleeding every month however, we no longer worry about childbearing before menopause since the birth control pill was created in the 1960s.  In contrast the women of the first half of the 1900’s before Birth control, because menopause stopped women from having unwanted or unaffordable numbers of children. In reality, women living 100 years ago rarely lived past age 45 for women so most women didn’t live to experience menopause!  Women suffered then but they were gagged by societal rules, and no one cared how they felt after childbearing years.  Now we are very integral to society at any age, not just for childbearing, and menopause is not freedom or enjoyable! We need one all encompassing answer.  The answer is long-acting estradiol and testosterone pellets that can resolve all these symptoms and make the years of a woman’s life after menopause like any other era.

Lie #2. Women can’t become presidents of companies or the President of the United States because we are too emotionally unstable.  Women are portrayed as unreasonable, hysterical and unreliable. LIE!

The belief that women can’t be a CEO or president of an organization, or of the US, because we are too emotional before menopause, and after menopause we are not competent to make decisions, is based on uneducated beliefs and old wives tales (really old husband’s tales).  We are more competent than men before menopause because we can think of more than one thing at a time, and act on the information, and because we have outstripped men in high school and college class status for decades. As for after menopause, we are at least as competent to lead if we have our menopause treated as men who are aging and becoming addled.

If we had the information that has been kept from us about the treatment for menopause, and if we were encouraged to get treatment instead of disparaged by our doctors of both sex in the US, and the US government, then we could hold any position we are qualified for, probably better than men.  Even the “Societies” that say they are for women don’t seem to be when they publish articles like the one, I read last week from the Medical Journal called “Menopause” women need counselling not medical treatment for the symptoms that we “imagine”.

According to a recent article in Menopause Journal 10.2024 this archaic comparison was made:

The need for biopsychosocial menopause care: a narrative review

Evans, Subhadra PhD¹;

Menopause ():10.1097/GME.0000000000002441,

October 29, 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000002441

Discussion and Conclusion 

Empirical support exists for a number of psychological and mind-body approaches to support QoL and symptoms during the menopause transition. The literature also identifies the need for menopause care that is “culturally responsive”..

“THE MENOPAUSE EXPERIENCE IS MORE THAN BIOLOGY” the title of the article.

The variation in menopause experience—with some women reporting minimal symptoms (in third world countries or tribes) and others substantially impaired QoL—can be attributed to biopsychosocial and cultural factors.”  THIS IS ANOTHER WAY TO SAY WE ARE CRAZY! For the record I am incensed that a journal that is supposed to inform doctors taking care of menopausal women, will drop back to the age-old position that women are mentally unstable and need counseling if we complain about the REAL symptoms of menopause. It is often opined that because women in third world countries accept menopause gladly, then we should lower our standards of what we believe we need, to those of Aboriginal women in Australia.  They don’t live to 100 and when they do, they are considered “wise women” and honored (according to this article in “Menopause”). However, you cannot compare women of the US with internet and education who do traditionally men’s jobs, who have a long-life span, with the “menopausal lives” of women in third world countries. We live to 100 now, and we need our hormones replaced to live  a healthy quality of life.  Why should men have the medication, testosterone and Viagra/Cialis paid for by insurance to treat them as they age while women go untreated and are deemed “in need of counseling”. So, if you have read this thoroughly you may ask why they (men and society) do this to us?  There are many reasons for the manipulation of women in the US and the western world. Here are some of the motives for this treatment of 51% of the US population.

1.Money:

I have heard male medical insurance company executives discuss how to distribute more of the healthcare dollar to men’s diseases, and the most efficient way is to take it from women and children. Their stated discussion involves tricky ways to deter women from the treatment they need:  instilling fear of the menopausal HRT treatment, paying doctors less than it costs them to provide a treatment like a $300 hysterectomy, and among others making women think they are crazy and not very strong for needing treatment for menopause. They justify this by saying that women have a disproportionate amount of money spent on them for childbearing and maternity care.   We are providing a service of having the children, so men don’t have to, but that means we need the same amount of money spent on us PLUS what is spent on OBGYN care! One “money pie” is divided between men, women and children, but the needs are not the same. Women need more, not less.

So how do they get women to think that they don’t need hormones or treatment for menopause? They scare us. The WHI study is one of the ways they saved Medicare billions by scaring women off estrogen replacement with false claims about the dangers of estrogen….all their claims have been proven false, BUT now we have 20 years of doctors who don’t know anything about hormones and won’t prescribe them!  Their mission was accomplished! Once again women lose!

2.Competition: Men competing for our jobs and positions: If men can continue the unfounded belief that women are inferior, or at least lose their brains when they hit age 45, when men are just hitting their stride, then men can steal our jobs and demote us to jobs below our level of education and intelligence.  The idea that a women over 50 (Nikki Haley) can’t be president of the US because she is menopausal was purported as the reason that  Nikki Haley could not be President of the US!  She looked much younger so that means to me that she was replacing her hormones and was at least as good or better than the other republican candidates. Do you see how this LIE works against us? If all women stand up and demand treatment with hormone replacement (estradiol, testosterone be offered and given to all of us in menopause or even before, the cost of other diseases of women would go down, and we would be free to pursue our own happiness!

3.Control: All governments want control of their citizens, but if we are healthy, wealthy and wise we don’t need government anymore.  Who are the most suggestible citizens? Women and young people!  So, we aim the brain washing at these two groups and we keep control by impairing women’s health by scaring them from getting the needed hormones for PMS and after menopause; They make us sick so we cannot stand up and be independent and think for ourselves. The government did this by telling our mothers and grandmothers that we should consume more carbohydrate than protein or healthy fat.   We are all dependent on medicine and > 50% of us have prediabetes or diabetes and are literally sick from the diet they advocated….and don’t think they didn’t know what they were doing!  The evidence says they did!

Men are in control of the political system and want to keep it that way. Women would not have let this scheme happen however there weren’t many of us in politics back then.  Men are in control of medicine, and I was in the first generation to fight my way in!  They didn’t want me to be in the call room because I might tell their wives about their liaisons with the nurses and other doctors….I never told but they blocked me out of meetings , teaching and otherwise…It is a way to control the leaking of tales of their bad behavior.  Another type of control but one that is real in most male dominated fields.

I could go on but you get the picture…For me, knowing this information is bad enough but the fact that it never gets out to the public is scary!  This false accusations of insanity of women goes back to the beginning of time…Did you know Hysterectomy can only happen to a women and it comes from the word Hysteria (Hyster=uterus)….and by the way only women can be hysterical!  Watch the movie called Hysteria and you will not only get some background on this method of control of women, but you will also get some laughs!

Knowing what is happening around you that prevents women over 40, you, from getting what you need at the doctor should help you find what you need, non-oral estradiol plus testosterone replacement from a sympathetic doctor who is interested in helping you resolve your symptoms of menopause and get back out there to live your life.

This Health cast was written and presented by Dr. Kathy Maupin, M.D., Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Expert and Author. www.BioBalanceHealth.com • (314) 993-0963. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel and please check “ Like “. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at BioBalanceHealth.