Perimenopause Power: Navigating your hormones on the journey to menopause

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Some doctors use drug therapy to treat symptoms. This includes hormone replacement therapy (HRT), vaginal oestrogen, and antidepressants. When should I see a doctor about the perimenopause? The compounded oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone worked brilliantly at first – within four days my hot flushes and palpitations disappeared forever, my memory returned and – unexpectedly – my mood lifted and my joints became supple. Oestrogen was the oil I needed in my engine, but a year later, I got a bad batch of the compounded hormone lozenges, which turned out to be from an unregulated pharmacy, and ended up having bleeding and then cervical and uterine biopsies. Dr Pinkerton gave me an example: “A woman came into my office and said, ‘I hate my husband. I hate my marriage. I need to get out of this.’ The husband had called me earlier and said, ‘I’ve noticed that my wife is really having exaggerated responses to things around the time of her periods.’ Although women are less likely to conceive as they age, it is still possible to become pregnant around the time of the menopause. So, if you are sexually active but don't want to be pregnant, you will need to consider contraception, such as coils, barrier methods or birth control pills.

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But I am very thrilled to have a studio space to escape to and focus on my work because that’s what this phase of my cycle is all about. I really love to just get down to work, focus on what’s important to me, and finish things up before my cycle ends. So today I’ve got some podcast recordings to do and ones where I’m guesting on other people’s. And you might be surprised to hear that I plan on taking it when it becomes appropriate for me to. My mum had osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease runs in both family lines. And hormones have a huge influence on conditions like these. So I’m up for taking it in addition to other nutrition and lifestyle measures. I also find that the research that’s been done around brain function and conditions like Alzheimer’s to be very convincing. So I’m up for taking it. Perimenopause Power is a book that every woman should read! I really wanted to learn more about perimenopause as I am a woman in her early forties and all of my friends seem to be discussing it endlessly. There is so much misinformation out there and GPs don't seem to be particularly helpful about the subject. I was really pleased that I given access to Maisie Hill's book and immediately sat down to read through it. Join me this week as I share some facts and resources about the menopause transition and how it might affect you. I’m busting some myths and sharing some truths about perimenopause, premenopause and menopause, and explaining how your hormones affect you during these times. Maisie Hill helps you understand the changes in your body and psyche during the lead-up to menopause and how to handle symptoms.' Top Santé

Problems with sleep during perimenopause can be worsened by hot flushes, night sweats, and other uncomfortable symptoms. Weight gain I’ve had some clients go six months and think that was it. And then their period starts, or even 11 months, really close to that 12 month mark and then have a period. And as we get closer to menopause we do have more anovulatory cycles, meaning ones where you don’t ovulate but there’s enough hormonal activity to instigate a bleeding episode. It’s not technically a period, although you would experience it like a period. But you do have some cycles where you will still be ovulating so contraception is necessary, assuming that’s what you want. As it turns out, the reason Gen X women have grown up believing that hormone replacement therapy – again, one of the only proven treatments for menopausal symptoms – is dangerous is something that happened in the medical community in 2002. It’s like saying that you’ve closed up shop as a sexual being Inequality is coupled with medical sexism, which fails to take account of the latest science, and leaves women to keep calm and carry on. While researching my book, I discovered the grim toll of oestrogen deficiency in the second half of every woman’s life, and the latest research on HRT’s extraordinary long-term health benefits for osteoporosis, diabetes and dementia, which women are twice as likely to get as men.

Perimenopause Power: Navigating your hormones on the journey Perimenopause Power: Navigating your hormones on the journey

But also we’re often already in perimenopause without realising it. Menopause can also happen earlier. So 1% of us will go through menopause before we are 40 years old. So although it’s true that most of you will go through menopause in your 50s, perimenopause is going to start in your 40s, for some of you the hormonal shifts will start before then.Problems with vaginal dryness and intercourse are another common complaint in perimenopausal women. A drop in hormone levels (predominantly testosterone) is responsible for a reduced or absent sex drive - also called libido. Changes in skin and hair Now, the reason for this is that hormone levels fluctuate while in perimenopause. And sometimes they’ll be the same as someone who is premenopausal, as in not going through perimenopause. So blood tests just aren’t a reliable way of determining if you’re in the club or not. Now, there are times when they might be appropriate and useful such as if you’re experiencing symptoms kind of earlier than you might expect these symptoms to start appearing. Then your GP might recommend them. That’s how Good Morning America got the story. Everybody went insane,” she continued. “In that week, every American woman went to her cabinet and took out her hormone prescription and flushed it down the toilet. Which, of course, was ridiculous, because the WHI Part One was the only study that was stopped at that point. That was the oestrogen plus progesterone. The oestrogen-only went on for another two years. It eventually showed a decreased risk of breast cancer, not an increased risk of breast cancer.