No, it’s not what you think! I have been thinking a lot lately about a guy named Perry Menopause. Actually, perimenopause, the slow, strange, torturous leading-up to the big M. I have never been the most stable person in terms of mood, but after visiting my doc yesterday, I learned that the approach to menopause makes that even worse! A magazine I was reading mentioned how you might also start to get some extra pounds around the middle. Not to mention — gasp — facial hair. My grooming already takes longer than I will admit here. When I’m 50, then what? I can’t stand the thought of it all.<\/p>\n
So what is the solution? Drink soy milk for the estrogen, right? Take estrogen? Wrong! Here’s what I think: if men went through a male equivalent of menopause, there would be a harmless little pill to take to stem the tide.<\/span> And guess what, there actually is: it’s called viagra.<\/p>\n The whole viagra thing stuns me. Men spend most of their lives trying to — excuse my bluntness — discreetly deal with the thing, and suddenly, life grants them a reprieve at age 60 or so, and they long for the good ole’ days!<\/p>\n Does viagra even have side effects? I’m so jealous. All we women can do right now to combat our change in life is to take estrogen, which is a bit dangerous, I had thought (in terms of being linked to breast cancer). So I have to choose<\/span> between my breasts and my mood swings\/thickening middle\/hot flashes? Not fair. I’m sure I will get comments here telling me how ignorant I am and informing me of new options. Good, let ’em rip! I want to know!<\/p>\n I can’t help but think that if men went through menopause — a wonderful term because the process probably does give many men pause — there’d no doubt be an easy, relatively harmless pill to take to reduce the symptoms dramatically or even reverse them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, it’s not what you think! I have been thinking a lot lately about a guy named Perry Menopause. Actually, perimenopause, the slow, strange, torturous leading-up to the big M. I have never been the most stable person in terms of mood, but after visiting my doc yesterday, I learned that the approach to menopause […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-mX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}