Together Through Menopause

75% Of Her Friend Group Had The Same Hip Pain.

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I am 58, menopausal, and my hips hurt so bad I could not sleep on my side for months. I thought I had hurt myself gardening. But when I mentioned it to my girlfriends, women who are all on the same menopause journey, 75% of us had the exact same pain. We all told ourselves it was arthritis, or an old running injury, or just aging. It was none of those things. It is called gluteal tendinopathy. It happens to 1 in 4 menopausal women. And almost none of us know it has a name until someone in our group mentions it out loud. Here is what is actually happening. When estrogen drops during menopause, your body stops producing enough collagen to keep your hip tendons strong. Without that collagen repair signal, the tendons break down from normal daily activity. That is why the pain shows up on the outside of the hip. Why lying on your side becomes impossible. Why stairs feel like they are getting harder, not easier. All of us had tried different things. Supplements. They get broken down in your stomach before they ever reach your hip tendons. Cortisone shots. They gave temporary relief but actually weaken tendon structure over time. Physical therapy. We were being asked to strengthen tendons that were already breaking down at the cellular level. Every single one of those treatments was addressing symptoms. None of them restarted the repair signal your tendons lost when estrogen dropped. None of them were designed to. What actually restarts that signal is specific wavelengths of red light delivered directly to the tendon tissue, deep enough to reach it, two inches beneath the surface, reactivating the cellular machinery that collagen synthesis requires. Not a supplement that your stomach breaks down first. Not a cortisone shot that fades in three weeks. A direct signal to the exact tissue where the breakdown is happening. Three of my girlfriends and I found a video from a menopause health specialist who explains exactly what is happening and what actually addresses it at the cellular level. The link is right below. No email. No subscription. Just click and watch. If you have been having the exact same conversation with your friends, or if you have been suffering through this alone thinking you are the only one, this is the explanation you have been looking for. If it clicks for you the way it clicked for us, you will probably be texting your friends about it within the hour. https://tryhalsten.com/pages/vsl1a