New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way

[RinaWhiteStar]

hi Justine,

you might say i found some véry interesting value in both Herbal Healing Wise as in New Menopauzel Years...It's my personal experiënce that the plants find me,not vica versa. My personal experiënce is that it's the plant who learns me,Susun Guides me...If i may be allowed to say so.Susun gives me kind of 'road signs' in the books she wrote,it's up to me which way i want to walk

I love the way Susun writes,ánd i love the way she Guides,

love and ((hugs)) to you to,Rina

[pogostemon]

Hi!
I just wanted to add my heartfelt thanks and appreciation for this book.
I discovered Susun and her works when I was searching Red Moon herbs website for information. A site that I also found by happy accident.
Well thank goodness for serendipity because New menopausal years is changing my life!
I am 43 and peri menopausal and this book has given me such insight and provoked such recognition - I can't tell you the relief I feel
My husband is also reading this book with me and we are talking our way through it. Hopefuly this will help both me and him to understand what is happening to me as I move through this part of my life journey.
Thank you Susun
Love
Pogo xxx

[Justine]

And thank you for sharing your positive experiences!!!

[morrigans]

Hello,

I loved this book, first of all, and I'm hesitant to offer any criticism, being new to the forums...that said, I'm glad to have discovered the forums, as I have thought of writing to Susun about this more than once.

In the summer of 2004, at 43, I began to experience what I believed to be menopausal symptoms: hot flashes, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, mood swings, vaginal dryness, etc. Everything I found on the web for these symptoms pointed to menopause. I found Susun's book and read the early bit - if you're asking if it's menopause, it is. I read on. The vaginal itching became so bad, and nothing helped, that I made an appointment with a GYN.

As it turns out, I was not menopausal at all. I was diabetic. Test showed I had loads of estrogen. Insulin - not so much. When I got my blood sugar under control, all of the symptoms disappeared. Fatigue and itching can come with high blood sugar; dizziness, flashes, headaches can come with low blood sugar. Mood swings come with flucuations.

This might be something worth adding to the next edition of the book.

The book is still on my shelf and I still look at it, as the time will come eventually. And I especially loved the conversation of the wise Grandmother.

Thanks,

Lisa

[Justine]

Hello and welcome. Thank you for sharing your experience, I hope it will be helpful for women who read it in the many moons to come. Also glad to hear that you were able to find relief and the cause of your symptoms. I hope you enjoy this forum, and don't be shy in sharing here, even if you are "new"

[Justine]

oh, too I forgot to mention I will certainly pass your message on to Susun, so she can be aware of this, though i am sure she will not be updating the book for a few years, as she is in process of writing two more and will be focused on these for some time...

I also forgot to ask you if you would share what you did to get your blood sugar under control....and was the diabetes an adult-onset (type 2)?

[morrigans]

Thanks, Justine.

Sorry it's taken so long to reply, but I was dealing with something else that kept me preoccupied.

Yes, my diabetes is type 2. It's hard to say how I got it under control, as I had to do so a couple times. I was diagnosed in Nov 04, and my blood glucose was very high then. I started taking a medication called Glucotrol and cut back on carbs. I was already going to the gym - I put on a lot of weight after I started having sciatic problems back in the mid-90s, which were misdiagnosed, but had recently found a good gym with a pool. (The gym is full of people of all sizes, shapes, and ages!) The pill dose I took was minimal and I brought it under control in a few weeks.

However, in December, I came down with a cold that became bronchitis by New Years Day and landed me in the hospital with severe asthma by the end of January. It was sort of a vicious circle - the only thing that would open my lungs was prednisone; prednisone makes the blood sugar skyrocket; high blood sugars make one more susceptible to infection. I was waning off prednisone when I came home from the hospital. For the diabetes, I was taking 4 shots of insulin per day along with Glucovance, a stronger pill. When I was able to start working out again, I was able to cut back on meds and when I went back to work, I cut back further still.

Eating right can be difficult...my mom had body image issues and made me her diet buddy when I was about 3 or 4...I spent most of my life binging and starving, and was only beginning to get a handle on it over the last couple years. But I am doing my best and my diabetes control is usually pretty good to very good. I eat a lot more fish, try to eat whole grains, cut back on bad carbs a bit at a time. Try to be active. And to stay well and keep my mood good. It's very hard sometimes, keeping the spirits up. Sometimes I just take a couple days to myself and nap, watch tv, read, and just cuddle with my teddy bear...which is probably something that would be good for anyone

BB,

Lisa

[Wise Woman]

Dear Susun,
I am new to your website and have not yet had time to read it all, but I
plan to. I would like to say thank you for your help eleven years ago when I felt all alone in the beginning of menopause and so little information was available. I found one of your books ( a dark
pink) cover and was calmed, helped, and intrigued by it.
…
Respectfully, J

[Wise Woman]

hello- i have been taking motherwort for hot flases as per your great book and it has helped tremendously… thank you!!
m

[Wise Woman]

Hello to all,
My sister gave me your book "New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way" years ago, now I am 53 and the book became a "bilble" to me. I am raised with some knowledge of herbs. There are not many books about menopause on the market like yours which cover all aspects, the body as well as soul and heart. The forewords of all chapters spoken by "Grandmother Growth" touch me whenever I read them, giving me the feeling that there is someone (inside myself-) who understands me deeply. It makes me cry in relief of whatever. This is something I miss in all other books I read about menopause. …
yours sincerely
E.
Germany

[Wise Woman]

Dear Susun,
Where to begin? Thanks for being there!
I have been struggling with endometriosis since 1991 and bought your books shortly thereafter. Menopausal Years has been my bible for PMS and endo for years. I fled from gynocologists who wanted to do a hysterectomy on me then and have managed to get this far…
...
Thanks again!!
L.
Spain

[Wise Woman]

Dear Susun,

Your menopause book is just excellent - common sense, at last!! I'm 54,
last period over 2 years ago, and have been on the roller coaster of
emotional, spiritual and physical transformation for the past seven years.
Major things in my life tend to go in seven year chunks, so I wasn't
particularly surprised to find lately that it feels as though I've reached
another level. I tried progesterone cream for a few months but the only
thing it seemed to do for me was to eradicate ongoing and long-standing
urinary tract infections, they stopped completely within days of using the
cream. … and I stopped
using the cream a couple of months back.
And guess what - I have fewer hot flashes, sleep better, my weight has
stabilized (at about 7 kg more than it was, but it's stable now) and all
together I feel a whole lot better! I'll be using your gentle and practical
approach as the basis for looking after myself from now on in, and am taking
my first tentative steps as a Crone, albeit a baby one! xx

So - a big thank you for writing this book! My question is, are you having
it translated into German? I'd love to give copies to my little sisters back
home, but they don't read English, and according to Amazon there is no
translation. Is one in the pipeline?

With lots of love and all good things, B. xx

[Wise Woman]

The first MENOPAUSAL YEARS saw me
through it! Thank you. I'm now passing along
things to daughters-in-law.

[Wise Woman]

Susun: Please put me on your mailing list to be able to receive your [url=http://susunweed.com/Weed_letter_Archive.htm]free
newsletter[/url]. Thank you so much for all you do...I have worn copy of The Menopausal Years ever handy and it has helped me get through the harder
times into the light. Thanks,

[Wise Woman]

Have just purchased "New Menopausal Years - The Wise Woman Way" from my local bookseller. It is so comforting and full of the DEEPEST common sense! A beautiful gift to womankind. Thank you Susun.