Weight Gain&Loss/Lupron=Chemical Castration NOT Menopause.

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Weight – I lost a significant amount of weight post vaginal myo and I only

got rid of ONE out of many fibroids. However, I attribute it to the end of

the blood loss and anemia. For me there was a vicious cycle of bleeding too

much to exercise – and having exercise exacerbate the bleeding -- and not

feeling well enough to exercise, and being ravenously hungry when anemic –

and being too tired to exercise anyway when anemic, etc., etc., etc., --

all of which led to weight gain. That weight gain reversed once the

bleeding and anemia ended – largely because I started to exercise regularly

again and I stopped being so hungry I’d eat anything that even remotely

resembled food.

Lupron – is chemical castration. Castration is not the same thing as

menopause. Undoubtedly it’s because of my age & the fact that I am looking

forward to menopause – but it bugs the heck out of me that docs are

constantly equating menopause with castration & thus leading the rest of the

world to think that way. I feel that if you’re going to chemically castrate

someone – even if it is temporary – you ought to be honest and so state, not

candy coat it as being something other than what it is. Lupron may have

some of the same symptoms as menopause, castration may have some of the same

symptoms as menopause – but they aren’t the same thing.

And a wonderful weekend to all . . .

Pat

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Pat, I agree with you that Lupron is not equivalent to menopause. The other

euphemism that gets me is calling an oopherectomy (removal of ovaries, usually

done in connection with hysterectomy) " surgical menopause " . No, it is not a

form of menopause. It is castration. There is a difference.

At menopause, our ovaries don't " shut down " . They continue to function and put

out hormones other than estrogen (or other than the main form of estrogen we've

produced during our fertile years -- I'm not 100% sure of which). When HRT is

prescribed to women who have been castrated, only some of the hormones actually

produced by the ovaries, and the other hormones produced in other organs as a

result of the effect of ovarian hormones, are replaced.

Leonie

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