Do you know yourself? Do you know the huge changes that happen in your body when you start your “second life”? What have you done to prepare for it? Are you ready to control your own destiny, or hand over the boat of life to the doctor, or “God”? In fact, the vast majority of people are not prepared for, or even want to hear, the words, menopause! A national survey on the health status of perimenopausal women showed that among the 2,451 menopausal women surveyed, 17.2% suffered from cardiovascular disease, the incidence of which was significantly higher than that of premenopausal women; 11.1% suffered from abnormalities of the nervous system and mental aspects; 10% became shorter in height, 39% had a bowed back and bent back; 36% had fractures…Female gonads -The ovaries begin to degenerate physiologically from the age of 35 to 37.5, and the estrogen gradually decreases until it disappears, causing degenerative changes in more than 400 parts of the body, including the skin, mucous membranes, bones, internal organs, muscles, blood vessels and nerves, which are controlled by estrogen, resulting in more than 60 different clinical manifestations. Faced with these sudden changes that take place over several years, it is wrong to just leave it to the doctor’s discretion in order to manage your menopause. It is also very one-sided to interpret it as “taking medication or not taking medication”. It also reflects a lack of understanding of menopause. By fully understanding menopause, being proactive and comfortable with it, and not following the crowd, you will open the door to a successful “second life”. A quality 100 years of life will not be just a beautiful dream. I would like to remind you that you should understand the following: Management and treatment of menopause You can not treat menopause, but you cannot neglect its management. Management, not just medication, involves multidisciplinary collaboration, the establishment of a three-dimensional follow-up monitoring system, healthy lifestyles, community activities, scientific definition of the roles of doctors and patients, etc. Men, women and doctors in menopause Menopause is not the exclusive domain of women. Although all have menopause, it differs from men’s slow decline that lasts until near the end of life because women’s ovarian function is rapidly lost and almost completely atrophied in a short period of time. Therefore, it is not surprising that women suffer more than men during menopause. And doctors, if they use sex hormones to help you, are just the equivalent of mimicking the natural trajectory of men. Second lifeand jewelry One of the most puzzling things in the world. That is, a woman can spend a lot of energy, buried in research, crazy street, to buy a piece of their favorite accessories, but the quality of the “second life” is closely related to the “menopause”, full of care, let the body of the “silent” huge changes. The “silent” change is huge. You can spend hours, or even days, on a piece of jewelry that you love. But when faced with a drug that may stay with you for years and months and is integrated into almost every cell of your body, you refuse to devote a few hours to study and research. More often than not, you leave your fate in the hands of a stranger called “the doctor” whom you may not have known in the first half of your life. In fact, that accessory, no matter how expensive, has nothing to do with us; and our body, no matter how bad, is the only love that stays with us for the rest of our lives. Learning is essential Without adequate knowledge and understanding, there is no real “true voluntary choice”. Long-term medication without training and health education is a reluctant gamble. It is very dangerous. In menopause, if medication is necessary, I divide it into long-term and short-term use. You can choose between medication and no medication, but you must not choose, to give up your self-right to blind obedience. Short-term medication is simply a response to the rapid onset of symptoms, and the “misery” caused by unnecessary worries about its short-lived side effects should not be. Long-term medication, on the other hand, does require you to have an in-depth understanding of the medication in question. Be prepared and make realistic choices. About doctors and us In short-term medication, you and your physician face a sudden and great discomfort, and the doctor is your “firefighter”; in long-term medication, the patient must learn systematically, fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of medication, and make a real and informed choice, and the physician is only the “master of arms and steward”. “In long-term medication use, patients must learn systematically, fully understand the pros and cons of medication use, and make real and informed choices. Whether short term or long term, physicians are never saviors, they are simply collaborators who help you determine the pros and cons of medications, monitor, etc. In fact, every woman who is in menopause and needs long-term medication should speak with a true voice: “My body, my choice! . How can this be done? In a word, be informed! How to be informed? In two words: learning and training!