Help! I Have Menopause

Many women over the age of 65 will experience a condition known as Osteoporosis, which affects more than 30% of all women, without any of them ever realizing. This number increases with age. For younger women like me, who go through menopause early this risk is increased by about 25%. By the time a normal woman is 80 she will be among the many women who will have or have had some kind of hip francture, the age is much lower for some women who has had thier menopause onset much earlier.

Why is this a problem?

Even the experts are stumped as to why menopausal women have such a rapid decline in bone density during the years after the onset of menopause. Because a women lacks estrogen she is more likely to be at risk. Estrogen itself would have been the preventative measure in this case. However in most cases the problem is that women are deficient in estrogen and thus more suseptible to this condition.

Who Else is At Risk

Other things may cause or put you at risk for Osteoporosis or Bone Density problems, one of those thing is being very tall and thin. These are not my problems but it is important to this blog that I mention this.

Another Risk is being caucasian, again not one of my problems. However for many this is a risk in these ladies.

You may be at risk if you are an avid smoker, you will need to stop soon if you want to reduce the chances of having bone density problems.

If you have to take any thyroid medications, you to are at risk for this particular problem.

Lastly if you are simply sitting on your backside all day long, you are putting yourself at risk for bone density problems. Being active and getting exercise is the only way you are going to be comfortable with menopause and save yourself from bone density problems.