You don’t have to suffer your way through menopause
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At 51, I started getting the dreaded and often spoke about marker of middle age: hot flashes. Equally alarming were the anxiety attacks. Little annoyances, like a horn honking at me in traffic or an email received after hours, would plunge me into a loop of overthinking how to respond. For the first eight months, I white-knuckled my way through them out of fear that I would be impeding a natural process. I tried taking CBD oil (a naturally occurring substance in cannabis and hemp) as a remedy, and it greatly reduced my symptoms from four to five hot flashes an hour to that many in an entire day. When my hair started thinning, I made the leap to HRT after learning that the original study that linked them to an increased risk of cancer, stroke, and blood clots back in 2002 was flawed. The benefits were immense and immediate. Menopause can be miserable, but we don’t need to suffer through it. Your gynecologist or general practitioner can best direct you on how to relieve your symptoms.
