Scientists develop pill to delay the menopause

[Herman Munster]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=461120&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

New drugs are being developed that could stave off the menopause, it has been revealed. They could lead to a fertility revolution, allowing women to wait longer to have a child. The dramatic news came from fertility expert Professor Robert Winston. He told a conference that researchers had found a protein which they believe could be developed into a pill or an injection to extend the life of women’s eggs.

This would give new hope for the thousands of women who find themselves left childless in later life.

Last week it was revealed that the number of women in their 40s having IVF treatment has soared more than tenfold over the past 15 years. But the chances of success fall dramatically after the age of 37 and are negligible by 45 – because by then very few eggs are being produced.

Professor Winston, professor of fertility studies at Imperial College, said: "We think we have identified a protein which might be used to prolong the life of those eggs. Women are much more healthy than they were and the period before the menopause could be extended without risk."

[valerief]

1. Good god, most mothers cherish menopause. It's time men started

having the babies anyway.

[Bjornsdotter]

2. Fucking kill me now

....not getting pregnant is the high point of menopause for me.

This had to be discovered by a man :sarcasm:

Cheers

[havocmom]

8. Prolly funded by the makers of various femmine products

They gotta do something to make up for lost revenue from those pills that will keep women from having their periods! X(

Fuggin corporations, yeah, dats it! ;)

[Bjornsdotter]

12. Omg!

.....I never thought of that.

I just knew that Kimberly/Clark was evil. Forty years of bleeding just wasn't enough for these bastards...:evilgrin:

Cheers

[DKRC]

26. I thought those pills would do the same thing

By not having periods wouldn't the eggs remain til you went off the pills and normal cycles resumed?
I was horrified by those ads. Just the spector of periods into my 60/70s or later is enough to keep me away from them. Now this!

[Warpy]

28. There is no pleasure in life greater than thumbing one's nose

while walking past the fertility aisle in the grocery store, the one with the sanitary products on one side and the baby junk on the other.

Silly men. They think we want to stay sexpots forever the way they want to be studly geezers hanging out in college age dating bars.

Menopause is great. No worry of pregnancy, no more sexual pressure from strange men, no mess and cramps every month, and you don't give a rip what anybody thinks about your opinions, which you now feel free to voice when and where you want to.

I'm one of those "pioneer" women who turned down HRT's promise of eternal youth before the research data put out all the bad news about it. If HRT had been proven safe, I still wouldn't have chosen it. I wanted it all OVER, to get on with the next part of my life.

You're right. Only a man could have come up with this one.

[Gloria]

3. Without risk? what about all that extra estrogen resulting in breast cancer?

HRT was just named a suspect in breast cancer and rates have dropped since fewer women are using it....

[woodsprite]

23. Not to mention increased risk for uterine cancer. n/t

[babylonsister]

4. Well, there's a lousy idea. By the time you reach menopause, you're

ready for it! (Most women anyway...)

[havocmom]

5. Better they find a way to give men periods

At least every leap-year or something! }(

Sure, Leap-Year, Presidential Elections & Olmypics... give us girls a break 25% of the time!

[Bjornsdotter]

14. Now that's a worthy cause

...I would donate for that research.

Cheers :toast:

[kestrel91316]

6. HA. Thanks, but no thanks.

Just what we need: MORE years of fertility for women. IMHO we are making quite enough babies for Planet Earth without THIS crap.

[uppityperson]

7. Just what I wanted, to worry about getting pregnant at 50

That means my child would be a teenager when I was 65, graduating highschool when I was 69. Oh my word no. Hot flashes are a pain but not having to even think about pregnancy is really nice. I am sure there are some who would chose this, but not me. Uh uh. Now, let's talk about side effects of the medicine...

[Missy Vixen]

13. Uppityperson, I like you already

>not having to even think about pregnancy is really nice<

I'll drink to that!

:toast:
Julie

[Missy Vixen]

9. Has it occurred to these doctors

that a good percentage of women who "find themselves childless" in their late 40's, early 50's, are doing so because they didn't want to have a child in the first place?

My heart goes out to any woman who desperately wants a child but because of infertility, is unable to get pregnant. I never wanted any. I don't need to extend my fertility.

Julie

[Bjornsdotter]

16. Let's not forget

...we have this little thing called "adoption"

Let those that can't procreate adopt; no need to extend the playing time of those who can.

Cheers

[Missy Vixen]

19. Isn't this the truth?

>Let those that can't procreate adopt<

There are 250,000 kids languishing in the foster child system in the USA. They need parents, don't they?

Julie

[SeattleGirl]

17. But Julie, a woman loses all her worth the moment she can no longer

get pregnant, don't you know. :sarcasm:

I chose not to have any more children after I had my daughter, and I had a tubal done. Some women don't want children at all. Nothing wrong with either of those choices.

[Missy Vixen]

20. That's right. After all, we're just incubators,

:sarcasm:

Two nights ago, I had someone quizzing me about why we don't have kids. I told them I'm not old enough yet. ;-) :woohoo:

Julie

[SeattleGirl]

21. Hehe. good answer, Julie!

Jeez, it's nobody's business why you don't have kids. It never ceases to amaze me that strangers think that they can ask other people such personal questions.

[DemBones DemBones]

31. If you had one, people would be asking you when you were

going to have another, or why you only had one.

If you had five or six, people would be asking you if you knew what caused them.

:grr:

[Missy Vixen]

38. I'm only sorry I'll never get that question

>people would be asking you if you knew what caused them.<

I would be horribly tempted to whisper something to the effect of, "We're still practicing. We're getting fairly good at it, but we just want to make sure." :woohoo:

:blush:
Julie

[DemBones DemBones]

40. I know a couple with 12 kids, some of them adopted. Someone once asked

the mom, peering at the obviously Asian baby in the stroller "Does she look like her father?"

To which she replied, "I don't know. I have no idea who her father is."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

She had at least three other kids in tow, at least one of which was (is) also Filipino. Some people are clueless as well as nosy!

And, no, they are not Catholic!

[TexasLady]

44. Now that is priceless!~

:rofl:

[noamnety]

33. Oh, you are much more polite than I'd be

"I just don't think a baby would fit in my uterus, given all the noses that are already in it."

[MuseRider]

34. Oh that is sooo perfect!

You never fail to come up with a good response. Thanks, I will remember that one!

[DemBones DemBones]

39. That is priceless!

:rofl:

[kineneb]

10. I'm looking forward to menopause

why on earth would women wish to prolong their fertility in to their late 40s? I wish those scientists would get to work on the period-supressing medicine. Besides, if the mother is in her 40s when she has a kid, by the time he/she graduates from high school, mom will be around 60!

45+18=63.

My grandmother was 70 when I graduated.

[RB TexLa]

30. Some people are building a business or a career and don't want a child taking away

their focus until then. It can't matter what their reason is.

[Radio_Lady]

11. No match here. It's much too late for me and Gramps.

Plus, I love not having a period, and Gramps was "fixed" 90 days after we married, with five kids, in 1973.

Best wedding gift I ever got!

Yours in total infertility,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[SeattleGirl]

15. I'm going through it now. It's not always pleasant, but better than

having a period every damned month. Delay menopause? No way!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

18. Great, because the older we get the better eggs we produce

Right?

[tyedyeto]

22. Take it from this 50's female...

I looked forward to no longer having 'periods' or 'cycles'. After the birth of my daughter, almost 26 years ago, I decided I didn't want any more children. Had my tubes tied. But those 'periods' kept coming. Now, I'm grateful they have ended. No way would I have wanted to extend that era of womanhood.

After the age of 35 or so, the risks of having complications due to pregnancy increase. I have a hard time with women who, in their 40's, decide that now is the time to have a child. Yes, they may have put their career in the forefront in their life, but are the risks to both themselves and their child at that age worth it?

Also, what would be the risk to the health of the female with these drugs? We've all heard about the risks involved in menopausal drugs and with birth control. Why would these drugs be any different?

[Blue Diadem]

24. Thanks but no thanks.

For some women it may be what they're looking for..for this 50ish woman, well..I'm looking forward to menopause.

[Canuckistanian]

25. Why, that's just playing God

Bonus points for the first fundie that makes that point.

[eShirl]

27. great, now invent a pill to hasten menopause

[DemBones DemBones]

32. Now THAT would sell!!!

:rofl:

[flying_monkeys]

29. NOOOOOOOOOOO oooooooooo OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

See, I *want* menopause so I know I absolutely positively am DONE and I would hate the idea that *I* would be fertile into my 50s and 60s - - Just pull my fingernails out now!


I want a "DONE, Start The Shutdown" pill instead for those of us in our 40s who are ready to be quit of babies, periods, and bloating....

[Blue_In_AK]

35. Menopause has been nothing but good for me...

I can't imagine why anyone would want to put it off.

[yurbud]

36. I thought women were born with all their eggs and didn't make more

[Auntie Bush]

37. LOL....I jwas just going to post that.

We're born with all our eggs and that's why we have more defected babies when we're older. The eggs become older too. NO? :shrug:

[blogslut]

41. That's my understanding

Pre-determined amount of eggs.

I have been having hot flashes for six damned years. I am so freaking ready for this menses crap to be over! When lord? Oh when?

[yurbud]

42. yeah, so even if you can have kids until you're 60, they'll come out looking like Ross Perot

or Barbara Bush

[TexasLady]

43. I had my last one at 36

One afternoon I was at a salon with my DIL and my youngest D, age eight. How wonderful when the stylist came up to me and said, 'well grandma, which of you would like to go first?'

I said, "Me, cause apparently I need a little gray-coverage..thats my daughter'

She didnt color my hair, but she sure was nice to me after that!

I am thoroughly and totally looking forward to menopause.I'm 'fixed', but tampons simply dont hold that same appeal to me anymore.:D