Tamsen Fadal was a WPIX news anchor for more than a decade when it was one night in 2019, she was unable to pronounce basic words on TelePRORPTER. During a commercial break, the heart race and the fog of the brain, Fado went to lie on the women’s bathroom and did not return to the anchor office. This was the first time in her 25 -year -old news career, leaving incomplete news.
Faddal consulted the doctor after the doctor to explain the symptoms of brain fog, nausea and turn the race. None of them left a note in the patient’s gate, which received a clear diagnosis: “In menopause. Which questions?”
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She was shocked by the lack of education she obtained from healthcare practitioners about such a troubled stage of her life, Fadal began searching for menopause and educating women online about her results. Her new book, “How to menopause: takes responsibility for your health, restores your life, and feels better than before. (Hachtit), combines the wisdom of neuroscientists, relations with relationships, doctors and other lifestyle guides to create a final menstrual manner on menopause.
Before her journey with menopause, Faddal could not have the symptoms she suffered. She recalls, “I didn’t even know menopause,” she recalls. But finally, the finding of a doctor who received his menopause was ready and ready to talk to her about the hormonal therapy “changing the game” for her.
The Times spoke with Vadal about how to talk to women about themselves in the doctor’s office and how menopause can affect the woman’s profession. (Readers can attend it Book signature At Barnes & Noble in The Grove on April 1)
This interview has been intensified and edited for clarity.
Tamsen Fadal, author of the book “How to Action
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How does your life appear before menopause, and how do menopause usually interact with the conditions of a woman’s life?
During the middle of life, I was constantly asking myself, “What now? I think these are the most difficult words that anyone can answer: “What do I want?” Multiple is a time when many of us hit the second chapter or the transition period, and we often believe that we are supposed to know exactly what to do, but we do not do that.
There is no road map for this time of our lives. With children and elderly fathers who need us and depend on them at this time, something often changes in relationships, then moreover financially or menopause comes, and we do not know what to do with all of this.
When we have a hormone transformation, everything changes. It is not just periods, brain fog or sleep. It’s all. Many women start feeling very distress. Our societies change, our relations change, our workplaces change and how we feel that ourselves are changing.
In your book, you argue that the medical system is not designed to treat middle -aged women. How can you change it for the better?
We have to do everything we can to help doctors and those who are studying that doctors understand menopause – and in all practices, not only ob/GYN. Menopause training should be part of the main approach to all doctors – we see even a lot of ob/Gyns who had to train themselves on menopause.
The other part is to educate women. Just as we have time schedules such as X -ray breast imaging and colonoscopy, I would like to see the timelines for menopause training as we start at the age of 35 in explaining the symptoms of women. Menopause is often diagnosed with symptoms, not blood actions, so women need to be able to detect these symptoms early.
Women were not part of health studies until the mid -1990s, and there is still a lot of money heading towards medical research on women in the middle age. For this reason, my team and I constantly call for more funding so that we can accomplish more research and get more answers. We are still focusing on the medical studies conducted 20 years ago, and we need newer information.
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What are the red flags that women should search for in health practitioners who are not aware or comfortable to discuss menopause, and what are the questions that women should ask their doctors early?
red flag: Everyone is going through. If your symptoms are not so bad, do not worry about it.
red flag: If you are still getting your menstrual cycle, you do not even need worry about any of the symptoms. You can not do anything even after 365 days of your menstrual cycle.
red flag: Hormonal therapy is dangerous. Do not do that.
I recently made a committee with two doctors, and both said that people call their reception office asking: “Did your doctor learn in menopause, and do they feel comfortable talking about hormonal therapy?” It is all that we were talking about during the past five years.
Once you enter the office, you should ask:
- What are my options for hormonal therapy? When can we start this?
- What are the different types of hormones?
- Are there contradictory indicators of hormonal therapy? Am I a candidate for that?
- What lifestyle changes will be good for me to implement during this time, so I can treat my entire body well rather than just reduce hot flashes?
- Are there any other tests that I should do now?
I think menopause can indicate that at the beginning of a completely new part of our lives we are really exciting. I call this my bold years, not my golden years.
– Tamsen Fadal
Your book states that one in five women in the United States has left or thinks about leaving a job due to the symptoms of menopause. How can menopause affect women’s profession, and how do women suggest talks about menopause in their workplace?
Symptoms of menopause can be delusional. If you don’t sleep at night, you do not work completely. If you are dealing with brain fog or sweating in your clothes all the time, this may be embarrassing and you can lose confidence.
Women should ask their workplaces:
- Is there an option for flexible hours?
- Is there an option for uniform changes, if you have got a uniform?
- Is there an option to go out to take a break?
- Is there a way you can provide benefits?
- Can you give women’s resources to go to a kind of menopause training?
I think there are many workplaces that can help women who should not be high and costly so that they say automatically no. It is important for workplaces to consider these flexibility options because we do not want to lose women at this important time in their career.
In my previous place, I went to the Human Resources Department and said: “I am a 52 -year -old woman. I know that I am in menopause, and we need to get a kind of policy to help women. What is part of our policy to help us get some treatment for this, or are we alone?” I left before this policy fully implemented, but I know they took me seriously and are still working on positive changes.
It was not easy, but the workplaces change: CVS only become The first American company to receive Menopause is friendly dependence from MidoviaThe company that we work with, and it is really exciting to see things like this begins to happen.
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What are some of the most common symptoms, but did not talk about the symptoms of menopause and some of the best treatments that preach it?
Heavy bleeding, hair loss, weight gain, painful sex, and low sexual instinct are among the most common symptoms that people do not like to talk about. Not everyone can do hormonal therapy, which really helped me. If my mother is alive today, hormonal therapy will not be a choice for her because she has breast cancer. In this case, she had to look at the main lifestyle changes such as taking magnesium to improve its sleep, increase protein intake, train strength, and reduce its stress. She had to look at foods and drinks that excite hot flashes, such as alcohol and caffeine. I want it to take vitamin D supplements and collagen cards.
Why do you think that menopause was a noisy topic in the past, and why is it extremely important that open conversations continue around them?
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Talking about menopause has often concluded in a lifetime, and I think it made a woman always feel that she was at the end of her best years. We are now clear that this is not the case. In fact, I think menopause can indicate that we are at the beginning of a completely new part of our lives. I call this my bold years, not my golden years.
It is important for people to understand how to tame the symptoms of menopause because this means a lot for their long -term health. It is not just uncomfortable hot flashes, it changes our brains, hearts and bone health.
I encourage younger women to get to know menopause early so that they can understand when they pass through menopause and do not ask alone what these symptoms mean. I really encouraged the fact that I have a lot of young women in the mid -thirties of my life in my community who tell great questions. If we do not continue to talk about menopause, we will maintain this course as women are not important and priority, and we cannot do so anymore. We cannot afford costs.
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