I don't know if it is menapausal but does your sex drive dip and rise uncontrollably? I have noticed a cycle here that I am not happy with, sex drive goes away for a while and then comes back strong. I take soy to stop the hot flashes but what can I do to even out the drive?

you can come see me

You can help????

Its a common symptom.. But I don't know what to do about it.

Thanks Dang

well if you want me too

LOL, well I will refer all my friends then too, since you can fix it

Hmmm i'm not menopausal and not quite in my 40s...i thought what you described was just life?!?

Well, maybe for some but my drive has always been strong all the time. Now it goes through slow times and then comes on like a tornado Kinda hard to deal with

Dragoness, you're young for hot flashes. I haven't gotten them yet. I didn't know about soy for that.

I haven't heard what you are describing from any of my friends.

I would think that being tired would do that.

I started having hot flashes in my thirties but it never effected the drive like now. The docs said the same thing, that I was young but they are here

I have heard about it hitting in the 30's. What does soy do?

My friends have talked about not sleeping well, btw. They are very tired.

Soy is like estrogen in some way, I read about it in the health books. It acts like estrogen or is a psuedo estrogen or something like that. So it will help with the hot flashes and some of the other symtoms of menopause for women. I have to take meds for my MS and they make me sleep so sleeping is not really an issue for me. I just wondered if it is common but I guess from the response on here maybe not, maybe I need to up my dose of soy. It is kind of expensive but worth it.

They discovered the soy connection when they found that oriental women were not having all the problems with menopause like we were here.

Hmmm....I will be looking into soy. Maybe soy chocolate milk.

The dosage you need is probably more than that to really help. Maybe look it up on how much you need. I take the supplements so I can get the amount I need.

Thanks.

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no dipping here...just rise rise rise

I am 43 and I have noticed a big change. They told me that mine would decrease though, I had colon cancer in 2004 and they warned me that this might make my sex drive decrease a lot. I honestly don't really have a sex drive unless I am around my boyfriend and then I have noticed that I still have one.
BUT its nice to find out that I do still have a sex drive because I thought since 2004 that it was gone!! I have never heard of using soy though..then again when I had hot flashes, I just used a patch. I was only allowed to stay on the patch for one year due to my high chance of getting cancer again.
Good luck

Menopause...ahhh what a nightmare that was! One thing I found that worked good was Black Cohosh. Walmart sells it.

I noticed my sex drive doing the up/down thing too while I was going thru menopause...luckily after I was done it evened back out again. Just think, all the sex you desire and no fears of pregnancy, or inconvenient days.