Male Monopause
Stage Fright in Midlife Sex
In male menopause, or andropause if you prefer, men can¿t help but think a lot about sex.¿In the younger days, thinking about sex was all about ¿how do I get it?¿¿Basically, the amounts of sexual thoughts in andropause are the same, but the accent is on ¿do I get it?¿¿This anxious turn of mind can lead to what amounts as a case of stage fright!
Male Menopause Glossary
When we talk about male menopause, it¿s good to have a reference glossary of medical words to help us to define the phrases and terms the medical community uses.
A.D.A.M.¿this stands for Androgen Deficiency of the Aging Male; this is another medical term for male menopause
ANDRO this means man, male, or masculine
Number Crunching In Andropause
Andropause is a medical term for the male menopause that many people are not familiar with. Indeed, there are many facets of andropause that are being understood and disseminated at this moment; such is the rate of study on this subject.
In an informative and benchmark study, Drs Daniel E Federman and Geoffrey A Walford lay out some of the newest thinking on the subject.
Male Menopause More Years, More Problems?
We are, without a doubt, the longest lived species of Homo sapiens in recorded history.¿We get older, we¿re taller, heavier; we certainly regard life from a much richer and easier position than our forebears.¿There is virtually no other sentient being that would like to kill and/or eat us or hunt us as prey.
A Visit To the Doctor: What to Expect
You have scheduled a doctor visit for a variety of reasons.¿There are several different things going on that has begun to alarm you; depression, mood swings, and a couple of times you have had trouble maintaining an erection. You don¿t know if they are related, but you have a sinking feeling that they are.¿You have made the trip to the doctor¿s office because you are tired of feeling a little bit afraid.¿
Male Menopause and Chinese Herbs for Impotence
It is said that it can take ten years and three health care professionals before the diagnosis of male menopause is made.¿Impotence can be one of the symptoms of menopause, but can also be caused by other factors: some related to the patient¿s age and not necessarily as menopausal. Yet, some of these factors present for male menopause as well!¿You can see why diagnosis is tricky, and perhaps why it is only recently that the concept of male menopause is becoming accepted in Western medicine.
Baby Boomers and Male Menopause
Something happened to our parents during and proceeding World War Two.¿They could have had the world¿s longest party, but instead they lost their minds and had more kids than the world had ever seen before.¿Not just the Americans, but the English as well went nappy-happy.¿What were they thinking?¿Any parent can tell you that when a crowd of kids gets together, there¿s bound to be trouble.
The Sphinx and Male Menopause
I swear, sometimes I have to pry information out of my husband with a crowbar. It¿s like living with the sphinx! If he¿s obviously troubled or feeling pain I have to work on him for a week to get him to tell me what the problem is. It isn¿t like he is afraid to complain: if he doesn¿t care for what we¿re having for supper he isn¿t shy about telling me. If he thinks that a movie we¿re watching together has turned absolutely sappy he¿ll form his index fingers into a cross and say ¿chick flick, chick flick!¿
The Irritable Man
It all started in Scotland, when a researcher noticed that rams became irritable, withdrawn and irrational when their testosterone levels plummeted.¿He coined the term ¿irritable man syndrome.¿¿Psychotherapist Jed Diamond thought this might apply to human males as well, and analyzed data from six thousand men.¿He reported his findings in his 1997 book, ¿Male Menopause¿. Dr Diamond found that one half of the men said they were stressed, gloomy, or negative most of the time.¿A total of forty per cent of the overall survey reported feeling often or always irritable.¿Many of the subjects who reported that they were feeling negative emotions were also, at the same time, experiencing hormonal fluctuations¿namely a drop in their testosterone level.¿These men also were experiencing changes in their brain chemistry, increased stress, and a ¿loss of male identity.¿
I¿d Rather be Bad than Sad; Depression in Male Menopause
Men¿s behavior is widely seen more as aggressive and a woman¿s as passive.¿Depression in woman is unfortunate but allowable; emotional actions and problems are viewed as feminine. Depression is viewed as a weakness in a man.¿It is not an overstatement that men are usually the last ones to see depression in themselves; sometimes they are amazed once they understand the nature of their problem.