Why I Couldn’t Wait for Menopause
I was more than ready for the change
I enjoyed menopause so much — I went through it twice. Well, that’s not entirely true. The first time I had menopause, I had what’s known as medical or chemical menopause.
Medical menopause is an early menopause caused by certain medications that reduce or block the production of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. Your body gets the message that it’s menopause time and acts accordingly.
In my case, although I was only in my thirties, menopause was chemically induced to help treat my endometriosis.
My endometriosis journey started when a grapefruit-sized cyst was discovered and removed from my abdomen. When they opened me up, they found endometriosis (cells similar to the uterine lining found outside the uterus), and while they burned as much of it off as they could, they couldn’t get all of it. The remaining endometriosis was left to cause all kinds of havoc.
“It was a mess,” my doctor said. She never was one to mince words.
I wasn’t familiar with endometriosis when my doctor told me I had it. Still, I quickly learned that when endometrial tissue grows, no matter where it is in the body, it will continue to react as if it were still in the uterus — it bleeds. The result of this out-of-uterus…
