{"id":1628,"date":"2019-04-27T11:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2019-05-21T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:48:36","slug":"menopause-myths-and-misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/2019\/04\/27\/menopause-myths-and-misconceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Menopause: Myths and Misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Twitter Chat Wed May 1 at 8pm (London) UK, 3pm ET (New York; Toronto) with @RobertaHeale and @EBNursingBMJ. Use #ebnjc with every Tweet!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-27-at-7.38.53-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1629 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-27-at-7.38.53-AM-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-27-at-7.38.53-AM-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-27-at-7.38.53-AM-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-27-at-7.38.53-AM-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-27-at-7.38.53-AM-640x428.png 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-27-at-7.38.53-AM.png 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We all know that baby boomers are getting older.\u00a0 With this comes all the changes in bodies associated with aging and everyone&#8217;s trying to cash in. \u00a0Women in particular are targeted. \u00a0Just as every natural process in a woman&#8217;s life has been marketed and medicalized, so too is menopause. Take hormone replacement therapy, for example.\u00a0 When I started my work as a nurse practitioner in 1999, HRT had been available for 40 years and was one of the top 10 prescriptions in North America.\u00a0 Soon afterward the <strong>first <\/strong>comprehensive study demonstrated that HRT did not do what it claimed to do&#8230;it didn&#8217;t protect a woman&#8217;s heart, risk of breast cancer was increased and so on.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC117851\/\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC117851\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just one small example of the many, many therapies, both pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical, that promise women relief from their perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms. These range from HRT, to antidepressants, to black cohosh tea and much, much more.<\/p>\n<p>These websites show a range of recommended therapies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturesintentionsnaturopathy.com\/menopause\/diagnostic-testing-for-menopause.html\">https:\/\/www.naturesintentionsnaturopathy.com\/menopause\/diagnostic-testing-for-menopause.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.menopauseandu.ca\/therapies\/hormone-therapy\/\">https:\/\/www.menopauseandu.ca\/therapies\/hormone-therapy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/facty.com\/conditions\/menopause\/10-treatments-for-menopause\/1\/\">https:\/\/facty.com\/conditions\/menopause\/10-treatments-for-menopause\/1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/317530.php\">https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/317530.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s a woman to do?\u00a0 AND what should a nurse tell a woman about relief from menopausal symptoms?<\/p>\n<p><strong>TWITTER CHAT SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Twitter Chat on May 1 offered a great opportunity for participants to discuss how to help women address menopausal symptoms. Key points arising from the chat are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Information resources for women are important, but should be evidence-based<\/li>\n<li>There is a lot of mis-information about menopause<\/li>\n<li>Some helpful resources include: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30gPTLw\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/30gPTLw<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Q3jTWs\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Q3jTWs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out more using the hashtag #ebnjc<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Chat Wed May 1 at 8pm (London) UK, 3pm ET (New York; Toronto) with @RobertaHeale and @EBNursingBMJ. Use #ebnjc with every Tweet!\u00a0 We all know that baby boomers are getting older.\u00a0 With this comes all the changes in bodies associated with aging and everyone&#8217;s trying to cash in. \u00a0Women in particular are targeted. \u00a0Just [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/2019\/04\/27\/menopause-myths-and-misconceptions\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Menopause: Myths and Misconceptions - Evidence-Based Nursing blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/2019\/04\/27\/menopause-myths-and-misconceptions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Menopause: Myths and Misconceptions - Evidence-Based Nursing blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twitter Chat Wed May 1 at 8pm (London) UK, 3pm ET (New York; Toronto) with @RobertaHeale and @EBNursingBMJ. 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