Welcome to Women First
The Women First program is an educational project that aims to raise women’s awareness about current reproductive health issues as well as the challenges that may arise throughout a woman’s life. The program includes educational articles, brochures and services related to women’s health, pregnancy and transition to menopause.
I was 45 and was suffering from hot flashes, mood swings, irregular menstrual flow and insomnia. I also started to forget basic things, had brain fog and sudden sadness right after the flashes – it felt like a metaphysical sensation. I was still menstruating, but irregularly. I’d had terrible anxiety in the past — panic…
I see menopause as a law of nature that we can’t avoid. I look after myself, but I don’t spend much on special foods or medicine. A little on essential oils, along with red bean and gelatin soup, which I eat for a few days before and after my period. I’ve been drinking more tea…
Lots of things happen to women and sometimes we don’t even know why. I’m a nurse, which has helped a little. That’s how I knew it was menopause when I was 50. It began with irregular periods: two months on, one off. Then came hot flashes. I felt like I was burning, drenched in sweat!…
My symptoms began a few years ago, soon after my daughter returned home from graduating college. We weren’t used to living in the same house anymore and I was moody and irritable, snapping at her the whole time. My daughter said I wasn’t myself and tried to talk to me about it. My periods had…
