超级名模罗伦公开更年期秘密
尽管所有的女性都要经历更年期，但在她们一般还是尽量回避这个话题。妇女在此期间会有很大变化，许多妇女并未为这些可能出现的变化做好应有的准备。超级名模劳伦·霍顿最近公开了自己进入更年期时的感受，以及她如何调整自己，迎接生命第二阶段的秘密。
问：你是什么时候开始发现自己进入更年期了？
答：我46岁那年，二月份的一天，我正在纽约的一辆出租汽车的后座上，突然感到一阵潮热，好像有颗炸弹在体内爆炸了。这种感觉只有我自己才知道，我想我当时的体温达到华氏125度。我开始脱掉所有的衣服。幸好当时身上还有一件小的女式无袖衬衫，因此没吓着出租汽车司机。
问：然后你怎么做？
答：后来，我就去找我信任的妇科医生看病。他说我已经接近更年期了，要开始绝经了。他认为必须马上补充雌激素。我当时并不接受这个事实，不想补充雌激素。但医生说，如果不补充雌激素的话，我会变矮、皮肤变得干躁，很快成为一个老太婆。我当时听了气得几乎要给他一巴掌。虽然他给我开了补充低剂量雌激素和孕酮的处方，但我并没有马上服用。
, 百拇医药
后来我去测量身高，发现自己的身高从5英尺7.5英寸掉到5英尺6.5英寸，在一年里矮了一英寸!于是，我开始意识到雌激素替代治疗的作用。大多数由低雌激素水平带来的损害都发生在头一两年。所以，我要告诫女同胞们，不要犹豫了，即使你已经过了80岁，雌激素也还是会对你有用的。重要的是要尽早服用雌激素。
问：激素替代治疗对你的生活有什么影响呢？
答：服用雌激素之前，我变得心情烦躁、老是失眠。人也变得很刻薄，失去了原来的幽默感。服用雌激素后，我自我感觉好多了。而且，皮肤看起来也好多了。皮肤看起来很好的原因很可能是心脏、大脑和其他器官好而使得皮肤变好，使自己变得更健康。我的妇科医生告诉我，激素替代治疗是最好的预防用药。
问：作为一名模特，公开讨论更年期是不是很困难？
, 百拇医药
答：在整整一年半的时间里，我羞于谈论自己的更年期。现在我惭愧的是曾经有过的那些落后的日子和想法。我们的女儿们根本不会那样想，她们觉得很骄傲，因为这显示出女人是多么复杂、不可思议。
Secrets of a Supermodel: Lauren Hutton Talks About Menopause
While menopause is no longer a taboo topic, many women are still uncomfortable dealing with it. Lauren Hutton recalls an alarming hot flash in the back of a New York City taxi, and losing an inch in height before she came to grips with her body‘s changes.
, 百拇医药
All women go through menopause, and yet it is a topic often avoided in general conversation. There are a host of changes that women undergo at this time, and many women are not as well prepared for these changes as they might be.
Below, supermodel Lauren Hutton describes her own arrival into menopause, and how she has managed to make a graceful transition into the first days of the rest of her life.
Q: How did you first discover you were going through menopause?
, 百拇医药
I was in the back of a cab in New York in February. I was 46 years old. Suddenly this bomb just shot off in the back of the cab inside my body, and no one heard it but me. The heat inside my body had gone up to 125 degrees. I started ripping off all my clothes. Fortunately, I had on one of these little chemises, so I didn‘t shock the cab driver.
Q: So what did you do?
I got myself over to my beloved gynecologist, and he said, "Well, you are starting to have perimenopause. You‘re starting to lose your period. You‘re going to have to start on estrogen right away." I said, "Wait a minute. I don‘t think so." He said, "Lauren, if you don‘t, you are going to shrink, dry up and get old." I almost slapped him. I took his prescription for a low dose of estrogen and progesterone, but I didn‘t start taking it right away.
, 百拇医药
Then I was measured. I went from being the shortest model at 5 feet 7.5 inches to being really the ultra shortest model at 5 feet 6.5 inches. I lost one inch in one year. That‘s one thing that I‘ve learned about estrogen replacement therapy. Most of the damage by low estrogen levels happens in the first two years. So don‘t wait around. Even if you‘re 80 and you‘ve never done it, evidently it can be helpful to you. But the real thing is to get it as early as possible.
, 百拇医药
Q: How did hormone replacement therapy affect your life?
Before I started taking the estrogen, I had gotten extremely irritable. I was not sleeping, which made me mean. I lost my sense of humor. When I began on estrogen, I started looking a lot better, and if your skin looks good, chances are it‘s your heart, your brain and everything else that‘s making your skin look good. You‘re healthy. My gynecologist told me it‘s the biggest preventative medicine that you can use.
, 百拇医药
Q: As a model, was it difficult to discuss menopause publicly at first?
For a whole year and a half I was ashamed to say that I was in menopause. Now I‘m ashamed that I was ashamed because those are backwards days and backwards ideas. Our daughters won‘t feel like that at all. They‘ll be proud because it shows how incredibly complicated women are., 百拇医药
问：你是什么时候开始发现自己进入更年期了？
答：我46岁那年，二月份的一天，我正在纽约的一辆出租汽车的后座上，突然感到一阵潮热，好像有颗炸弹在体内爆炸了。这种感觉只有我自己才知道，我想我当时的体温达到华氏125度。我开始脱掉所有的衣服。幸好当时身上还有一件小的女式无袖衬衫，因此没吓着出租汽车司机。
问：然后你怎么做？
答：后来，我就去找我信任的妇科医生看病。他说我已经接近更年期了，要开始绝经了。他认为必须马上补充雌激素。我当时并不接受这个事实，不想补充雌激素。但医生说，如果不补充雌激素的话，我会变矮、皮肤变得干躁，很快成为一个老太婆。我当时听了气得几乎要给他一巴掌。虽然他给我开了补充低剂量雌激素和孕酮的处方，但我并没有马上服用。
, 百拇医药
后来我去测量身高，发现自己的身高从5英尺7.5英寸掉到5英尺6.5英寸，在一年里矮了一英寸!于是，我开始意识到雌激素替代治疗的作用。大多数由低雌激素水平带来的损害都发生在头一两年。所以，我要告诫女同胞们，不要犹豫了，即使你已经过了80岁，雌激素也还是会对你有用的。重要的是要尽早服用雌激素。
问：激素替代治疗对你的生活有什么影响呢？
答：服用雌激素之前，我变得心情烦躁、老是失眠。人也变得很刻薄，失去了原来的幽默感。服用雌激素后，我自我感觉好多了。而且，皮肤看起来也好多了。皮肤看起来很好的原因很可能是心脏、大脑和其他器官好而使得皮肤变好，使自己变得更健康。我的妇科医生告诉我，激素替代治疗是最好的预防用药。
问：作为一名模特，公开讨论更年期是不是很困难？
, 百拇医药
答：在整整一年半的时间里，我羞于谈论自己的更年期。现在我惭愧的是曾经有过的那些落后的日子和想法。我们的女儿们根本不会那样想，她们觉得很骄傲，因为这显示出女人是多么复杂、不可思议。
Secrets of a Supermodel: Lauren Hutton Talks About Menopause
While menopause is no longer a taboo topic, many women are still uncomfortable dealing with it. Lauren Hutton recalls an alarming hot flash in the back of a New York City taxi, and losing an inch in height before she came to grips with her body‘s changes.
, 百拇医药
All women go through menopause, and yet it is a topic often avoided in general conversation. There are a host of changes that women undergo at this time, and many women are not as well prepared for these changes as they might be.
Below, supermodel Lauren Hutton describes her own arrival into menopause, and how she has managed to make a graceful transition into the first days of the rest of her life.
Q: How did you first discover you were going through menopause?
, 百拇医药
I was in the back of a cab in New York in February. I was 46 years old. Suddenly this bomb just shot off in the back of the cab inside my body, and no one heard it but me. The heat inside my body had gone up to 125 degrees. I started ripping off all my clothes. Fortunately, I had on one of these little chemises, so I didn‘t shock the cab driver.
Q: So what did you do?
I got myself over to my beloved gynecologist, and he said, "Well, you are starting to have perimenopause. You‘re starting to lose your period. You‘re going to have to start on estrogen right away." I said, "Wait a minute. I don‘t think so." He said, "Lauren, if you don‘t, you are going to shrink, dry up and get old." I almost slapped him. I took his prescription for a low dose of estrogen and progesterone, but I didn‘t start taking it right away.
, 百拇医药
Then I was measured. I went from being the shortest model at 5 feet 7.5 inches to being really the ultra shortest model at 5 feet 6.5 inches. I lost one inch in one year. That‘s one thing that I‘ve learned about estrogen replacement therapy. Most of the damage by low estrogen levels happens in the first two years. So don‘t wait around. Even if you‘re 80 and you‘ve never done it, evidently it can be helpful to you. But the real thing is to get it as early as possible.
, 百拇医药
Q: How did hormone replacement therapy affect your life?
Before I started taking the estrogen, I had gotten extremely irritable. I was not sleeping, which made me mean. I lost my sense of humor. When I began on estrogen, I started looking a lot better, and if your skin looks good, chances are it‘s your heart, your brain and everything else that‘s making your skin look good. You‘re healthy. My gynecologist told me it‘s the biggest preventative medicine that you can use.
, 百拇医药
Q: As a model, was it difficult to discuss menopause publicly at first?
For a whole year and a half I was ashamed to say that I was in menopause. Now I‘m ashamed that I was ashamed because those are backwards days and backwards ideas. Our daughters won‘t feel like that at all. They‘ll be proud because it shows how incredibly complicated women are., 百拇医药
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