When is menopause not menopause?

Several women in their forties who’d been told by their GPs that they had entered menopause and hadn’t had a period for years started to menstruate again on a regular cycle once commencing progesterone therapy. Clearly, these women were not in menopause and were misdiagnosed. Nutritional supplementation, good diet, exercise, and the use of progesterone has returned a healthy body.

Often these women, because they have been diagnosed premature menopause, without correct diagnostic tests, have been put onto HRT over many, many years. They report contemplating why they never felt quite right. Some of these women, once commencing progesterone supplementation and realising that they weren’t menopausal at all, have become very angered that their opportunity for fertility may have been cut short simply because of a misguided diagnosis.

Three women come to mind on this issue alone. These women, now aged between 30-50, tried desperately to have babies in their prime, and went through all sorts of fertility programs and experimental drug trials, one being Tamoxifen for fertility which proved successful (15 years ago), and eventually gave up thinking that their reproductive years were well and truly finished. They were put on HRT for what their doctors’ termed premature menopause.

You might like to read Klara and Margaret’s testimonials, two women who were diagnosed as menopausal and have begun regular menstruation using progesterone. Margaret has battled fibroids and (beaten the threat of a hysterectomy) only to now be entering her menopausal years (now aged 55).