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...MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT and our culture think every woman wants to look younger than she is and have a menstrual period forever? I'll be happy to take estrogen as soon as they come up with a pill that makes flabby, wrinkled, balding men over 50 look younger too. MEREDITH SMALL Ithaca, New York...
Progesterone pills can be particularly hard to tolerate. Progestin is always prescribed along with estrogen for women with an intact uterus. While estrogen prompts the uterine lining to thicken, progestin signals it to stop growing and slough off; this artificial menstrual cycle seems to prevent endometrial cancer. But progestin often causes cramps, irritability and other PMS-like problems. In her 1991 book on menopause, The Silent Passage, Gail Sheehy tells how estrogen highs and progestin lows made her feel as though her body was "at war with itself for half of every month...
Even the normal rise and fall of estrogen during a woman's menstrual cycle can affect mental performance. Young women do better on Sherwin's word-pair memory tests during the luteal phase of their cycle, when estrogen and progesterone levels are high, than during menstruation, when hormone levels are low. This doesn't mean women are less competent late in their cycles, says Sherwin; the changes are too minor "to have any real effect in the real world." Still, there is little doubt that the foggy forgetfulness that envelops some women as they approach menopause is a direct result...
...study could ever be, we suspect, and the result turns out to be, more or less, the good doctor's autobiography. It's hard to not to feel inordinately thankful that we are presented with an exploration of what is in Hullah's mind and heart rather than the menstrual cycle of Emma Bovary or dental hygiene aboard the Pequod...
...people through his fire door. "There's this girl who lives through the fire door who has the loudest voice possible," Sam laments. "I've gone through every variety of ear plugs. She talks on the phone all day, so I know everything about her--her love life, her menstrual cycle, you name it. Sam's roommate clearly, you name it. Sam's roommate clearly revels in the noise just as much as Sam does. "My roommate will yell stuff like 'I have a gun tonight and I'm gonna shoot people who are really loud...