Why don't doctors tell women about the connection between menopause and arthritis?

Question

http://www.arthritissupport.com/library/...

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/el...

In fact, even young, non-menopausal women may develop arthritis symptoms when given estrogen-depleting medication for cancer: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/5120... the link being that estrogen levels fall around the time of menopause.

Doctors tell us about osteoporosis and menopause, but they don't mention arthritis in this context. Why not? Did you know about this connection?

Answer 1

I didn't know this.  I'm going thru the start of menopause and I have arthritis in the feet and one knee.  I don't want to take anything for menopause.

Answer 2

Probably because there's nothing to treat it yet.  Give the pharmaceutical companies a few years to market something to stop that and they will tell everyone about it and their need to purchase this new drug.

Answer 3

Too bad you didn't post any valid links.  

ETA:  Thank you.  My arthritis developed long after the estrogen stopped and before I went off HRT.  I found glucosamine to help a great deal, although my orthopedist says it's not possible.  I'm not sure this was applicable in my case.

Over my lifetime, I have found there's a lot doctors don't - or didn't - tell their patients, and you can't question what you don't know.

Answer 4

There is also a link to arthritis, with certain BC's, and more active life styles.   Some BC's and being under weight will drop a women's estrogen...leading to arthrites in young women (like 20's)

Answer 5

Sure do know about that connection. And no, my doctor never told me. I found the info in a few books on my own,  when I was looking for ways to live a little more pain free.