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Menopause and Insomnia
Insomnia is a very common symptom reported by numerous women at the onset of menopause. It is characterized by sleepless nights and often uncomfortable sleep such as tossing and turning in an effort to get comfortable. If you are primarily a mentally active person, it can become very difficult to calm the mind. You feel restless and irritable....

Women and Menopause...........
Women and Menopause........... Menopause is an irreversible process and inseparable of the aging in a woman's reproductive system, after which she can no longer menstruate. Climacteric is the general term for the time from the period of this transition to the early postmenopausal phase of a woman's reproductive life cycle. Perimenopause refers...

Menopause Manners For Men
Menopause Manners for Men If over 30 million women are going through menopause, think of what the men are going through! By Valerie Otto Menopause is not what it used to be. Women are approaching this time of life differently – the new outlook is energized as most women are healthy and become free of many past identities and...


Herbal Menopause Treatments
Herbal Menopause Remedy Menopause is a transition that marks the stop of menstruation. Although this is a life change which should be embraced as another stop in life's natural stages, some women's experience with menopause has more to do with pain and discomfort. Since the 1960's physicians have prescribed estrogen supplements to reduce hot...

Menopause, Just What Is It?
Just what is this thing called menopause? And what does it have to do with you? Simply stated, menopause is a biological event that marks the end of a woman’s menses and hence her natural reproductive cycle. Perimenopause is defined as the period beginning with the signs of approaching menopause and ending about 12 months after “the menopause”. ...

Menopause and Dizziness
Unfortunately during menopause, the explosive symptom of dizziness is all too common. You know the feeling - a spinning sensation inside your head ripping down through the rest of your body making it impossible to be at peace. Or the inability to get up quickly not unlike the sensation you have when just hopping out of a roller coaster. In extreme...



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Coronado resident pens girlfriends guide to menopause (Solana Beach Sun)
Ellen Sarver Dolgen By Leigh Ann Dewey Contributor What is a "shmirshky?" People of all ages and genders are quickly finding out, thanks to a new book by Ellen Sarver Dolgen. She calls the volume "a small book with a big story." Under the pen name, "E," Dolgen combines humor, personal experience and meticulously researched facts to bring what she calls the nearly taboo subject of menopause to ...

Local resident pens girlfriends guide to menopause (Carmel Valley News)
What is a "shmirshky?" People of all ages and genders are quickly finding out, thanks to a new book by local resident and philanthropist Ellen Sarver Dolgen.

Coronado resident pens girlfriends guide to menopause (La Jolla Light)
Ellen Sarver Dolgen Leigh Ann Dewey Contributor What is a "shmirshky?" People of all ages and genders are quickly finding out, thanks to a new book by Ellen Sarver Dolgen. She calls the volume "a small book with a big story." Under the pen name, "E," Dolgen combines humor, personal experience and meticulously researched facts to bring what she calls the nearly taboo subject of menopause to light ...