Menopause and Marijuana — Controlling the #3BHF

ATTENTION: Please consult your doctor or medical professional before starting marijuana. It may affect other drugs you may be taking or marijuana may simply not be right for you.

I started smoking weed when I was about 16 after being around it since I was 8. I smoked for many years until I was 25 and for medical reasons I quit.

When menopause hit me at the age of 51, I really wasn’t interested in starting up again but less than two weeks into menopause, I changed my mind.

I was already at a loss for how to control my menopause and grasped the marijuana straw.

When the Symptoms of Menopause hit, like the three (3) minutes before a hot flash (3BHF), when I feel it coming on, my body goes through this….this….I don’t even know how to describe it but it’s like it has been taken over by something else over which I have zero control. For about three (3) minutes. Then the hot flash hits head on. That is the symptom you see: the hot flash. You do not see the 3BHF.

For three (3) minutes I get nauseous. My heart races. My brain goes into a frenzy.

Don’t ask me anything. Don’t touch me. Get out of my way. Seriously.

I lack control during these three (3) minutes. The 3BHF.

Multiply that by 10. Then 20. Then 30.

I have more than 20 hot flashes a day. I once recorded 2 every hour from 7am until 11pm. That’s more than 30 just during the hours…