Sandra asked me to do a contribution to her “menopause-and-more” blog from “ahead”. Far past the age of getting menopausal. Looking back I can only say that I am persuaded that my hormone therapy has helped me a lot. My doctor told me to start taking these when I was around 50 approx. 20 years ago. I severely suffered from heat flushes and was immediately helped by the supplements. Some 5 years ago, influenced by the ongoing discussion about the potential harmfulness of these, I tried to leave them out for a period of about 3 months. My mood was severely influenced and my closest family meant they hardly could recognize me. Well, being out of a family with no record of breast cancer or high blood pressure but some cases of osteoporosis I checked my situation with my gynaecologist once again and he recommended me to continue with Activelle which was the medicament I switched to in my mid fifties after not wanting bleeding any-more. Nowadays I take a tablet every second day. Another thing that helped me taking this decision was the fact that my mom had hormone therapy until she was 90 years old. She kept extraordinarily well all her life.
I am still having a very active life which my just finished May-June bicycle tour Athens-Munich, 3000 km with around verticals proofs. The below is an extract from one of my Instagram posts from the tour:
Annegretewarrer Another day at my beautiful and challenging office. Strongevity – a word composed by strong and longevity – is my mantra. Brixen to Innsbruck = 96km and 1550 vertical. As you maybe know I will be 70 later this year – but age does not keep me back. I am blessed with good health and just minor issues and thanks god for that. But I have my own interpretation of “the biological watch”,which means how long can I keep on doing sports at the level I do? Nobody knows except not getting any younger of course is an issue. My decision is to keep on going as much as possible as long as it is possible.”
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