HOW I EASED MY MENOPAUSE ITCHY SKIN
When your oestrogen levels drop during perimenopause it can have a negative effect on your skin. Oestrogen is important for supporting healthy, supple and flexible skin, so when your body produces less of it your skin starts to change.
Unfortunately the changes to your skin are not the sort of changes you want!
I was well aware that skin changes as we age but during perimenopause the changes can be quite rapid. Changes to your skin due to lowered oestrogen levels can continue after perimenopause and into your post-menopause years. So it can be an ongoing problem for a lot of women.
When I first started to research the effects that my menopause would have on my skin I was alarmed to say the least. Losing all that oestrogen wasn’t going to do me any favours at all on the beauty front.
Like a lot of women my main worry was that I would look so much older really quickly. I know that this sounds like pure vanity but I’m sure you know where I’m coming from on this.
It Turned Out That My Main Problem Was ITCHY SKIN!
The itching started to drive me crazy! It was almost continuous and all over my body. I was worn out by the effort of having to scratch every few minutes, particularly as it was also happening at night. The constant scratching wasn’t doing my skin any favours either. Sometimes I made my skin bleed, especially on my shins, hips and the base of my spine.
It’s also embarrassing. If you’ve ever felt that biting need to scratch when you’re in the supermarket queue or in the conference room, or in any other public place for that matter, you’ll know what I mean. You try so hard not to scratch but the longer you put it off the worse the itch gets. You’ve just got to do it, embarrassing or not.
It got to the point that I thought I had scabies or some other mite eating away at me. I got checked out and it wasn’t an infestation of nasties, just my skin’s response to hormonal changes. Well at least that was something but it still left me with the itching problem.
I was told to moisturise my skin regularly.
I tried lots of different moisturisers as dry skin can cause itching and regular moisturising was the advice I’d been given. I made sure I kept well hydrated as lack of fluid dries out your skin as well as being really bad for your health.
Some of the things I tried had little or no effect but I was fortunate enough to find a few things that did help to substantially ease the itching. I’m not saying that I never get an itch now, we all need to scratch sometimes, but the difference is amazing and such a relief.
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