Perimenopause Power: Navigating your hormones on the journey to menopause

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An empowering manual to guide women through how to make all stages of the menopause a more positive experience I liked her descriptions of the physiology and changes with perimenopause. There is also plenty of good advice for living a healthier lifestyle generally. However, there is inherent bias. The author is an alternative therapist and places a lot of claim on a variety of homeopathic measures and ‘functional medical practitioners’ and ‘nutritional therapists’ (which is not a protected title by the way, meaning anyone can call themselves this). There is pseudoscience aplenty and unnecessary doctor-bashing. I feel the author could have delivered the useful information and have it better received if she cut the crap and subsequently length of the book. Although pretty dense, this is a great resource for people who deal with or will be dealing with perimenopause. I will definitely be referring to this in the future. I have been socialised to be good and polite; rewarded for being compliant and kind; trained to desire praise for being a good girl. And I am utterly ill-equipped to express the rage that I feel. It scares me and I fear what happens next I am stepping out of the parameters of my being and inhabiting that anger. I am on fire....I am embracing my peculiarities, moving from self-improvement to self-love. I am standing in the mirror and appreciating everything I bring to the world. I am stepping into my power and owning it like I never have. I am finding my Perimenopause Power." 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

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When I open the book How to Face the Change of Life with Confidence, published in 1955, I see a question from a woman, 37, who has wild mood swings before she gets her period. The expert male gynaecologist author tells her: “Man reaches physical maturity at 25, and emotional maturity at 35. Unfortunately, you seem to have missed the boat somewhere along the line, and you are still in your childish stage of emotional reactions.” So this woman read the guidelines and when her GP suggested more blood tests she was able to say, “Look, I think I meet the criteria, this is what the NICE guidelines say.” And because of that she was just referred to a menopause clinic. And I will link to the NICE guidelines in the show notes so that you can read them too and perhaps take them into your appointments if you’re having any discussions with GPs or other healthcare professionals. Mom,” I said. “Did you just call the Bounty paper-towel company to complain about these teddy bears?”

Egton Medical Information Systems Limited. Registered in England and Wales. All rights reserved. Patient does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Almost every woman I know of my age is feeling confused and in a state of transition even as most of us are at the top of our game in our careers, financially stable and pretty comfortable with being parents,” said Yvette, 43, a Californian who is the COO of a video game company. “I spend a lot of time with other friends of my age. We talk about the fact that we are widening and softening where we don’t want to and don’t know if it makes us shallow or not feminists to do something about it; the fear that we don’t know how to monitor our children’s screen time; the fact that we don’t really like or need sex very often; our worry that we are losing time to try our ‘dream’ job.” A year or so ago, I began to think I was possibly losing my mind. I was feeling anxious, tired, and finding that I was forgetting even the simplest of things - people's names, things I'd promised to do at work, something somebody had literally just told me. I started googling early onset dementia, but it was when I was chatting with another friend about the menopause that she mentioned early symptoms like brain fog and forgetfulness and suddenly all the clues started to point in that direction. I rarely read non-fiction, but being a health librarian, when I became dimly aware I was perimenopausal a couple of years ago I started trying to research what I was going through. I was horrified by how little factual, unbiased, evidence-based information was out there. There's plenty of new-agey or militant feminist writing about the end of our fertile years, but actual facts rooted in research and lived experience? Not so much.

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During perimenopause three quarters of women will experience symptoms such as mood changes, insomnia, hot flushes, and night sweats, but there is little in the way of evidence-based information out there to help and guide us. Perimenopause Power is the essential handbook to understanding what the hell's going on and to empower us to improve our experience of the dreaded 'change'. Ik had echt een haat-liefdeverhouding met dit boek. In dit boek wil Hill je handvatten bieden wat hormonen doen in je lichaam. Ze neemt je mee door je puberteit, menopauze en perimenopauze. In hoofdstuk drie gaat ze in op welke voeding ons kan helpen met bijvoorbeeld een te hoog oestrogeengehalte. Misschien TMI, maar goed, ik heb hier zelf last van en ben daar dankzij dit boek achter gekomen. In het laatste hoofdstuk gaat Hill dieper in op wat er mis kan gaan door bijvoorbeeld PCOS, Overiumcysten en vleesbomen.

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I’ve had my own battles with my cycle - from debilitating period pain that meant I couldn’t walk let alone work, to extreme mood swings and intrusive thoughts - and I spent years trying out every treatment strategy possible in a bid to sort my cycle out.

Perimenopause Power: Navigating your hormones on the journey

The hormone oestrogen also keeps hair shiny and skin ‘plump’, so when oestrogen levels fall you might notice changes in your skin and hair. Hair may become dry and brittle, and skin may look dull and feel a little ‘saggy’. Is there a test for perimenopause? Hormone blood tests Some of you will have elderly parents, perhaps you’re part of organisations and things going on in your community. And I say all of this because it’s a good idea to actually stop and recognise all the different things that we are doing because often we arrive at this stage of life realising how much we do for others and how often put ourselves last. And of course some of these roles we love and value and we wouldn’t change them. But I’m going to guess that there are aspects of your life that you’re not happy with for one reason or another. Another reason for having it in book format is that the beginning is full of science. I'm creative, not scientific and I found that hard to follow and it nearly put me off reading the rest. However, if you love science and have a better grip on it than me, it's full of information and knowledge. When you have a normal period, the levels of oestrogen and progesterone hormones rise and fall in a regular pattern throughout the menstrual cycle. But during perimenopause, hormone levels are all over the place. The hormones don’t just stop, so neither do your periods. As a result, there may be irregular bleeding or spotting.I thought perimenopause was just the run-up to the menopause and not a treacherous passage in itself. I had no idea it would make me so furious – or give me surprise periods like tsunamis. In the kitchen at various times during my deranged perimenopausal mood swings I threw: 1) a butternut squash, 2) Nigella Christmas, 3) broccoli, 4) a full butter dish, and 5) blue poster paint at the wall. No one was injured. Indeed, the missiles actually released family tension – and at least the dog began to treat me with more respect. I had no idea that progesterone and oestrogen drained erratically but inexorably away over the course of years in perimenopause, and that symptoms could be mental as well as physical.