Perimenopause Power: Navigating your hormones on the journey to menopause

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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.’ We ended up getting her into counselling as well as on to oral contraceptives. The contraceptives calmed the hormones down and then doing some counselling let her start to see some of the stressors that were hidden. 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.” It also helps simply to understand what’s happening, which is why those delineated phases of perimenopause can be a light-bulb moment. ‘I think it’s helpful when we can name something, and say, “Maybe you’re in this phase, these are the common things that can happen, and this is what’s going on.”’

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This makes them vulnerable, Dr Thielen said, to controversial things like subcutaneous hormone pellet therapy, inappropriate ovary removal, or pricey “vaginal rejuvenation”, which can cost a fortune and may involve shooting lasers into your vagina – one more thing I guarantee you our mothers did not have on their to-do lists. You know,” said JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society (Nams), “we tell people who are grieving not to make major changes for a year. I don’t think anybody’s ever said: ‘Don’t make a major decision when you’re perimenopausal.’” Many of the symptoms experienced during perimenopause are a result of decreasing hormone levels. A lower level of oestrogen is the main change, but progesterone and testosterone also play a part. Irregular periods

Perimenopause Power is a handbook that exudes calm positivity and makes sense of complex physiological processes in an easy-to-understand manner, helping women to understand what the hell's going on with them and provide instruction on what can be done to improve their experience of the dreaded "change." I started my periods when I was 10, and so while I'm only in my mid 30s now, I really wouldn't be surprised if I started perimenopause early too - based on what I've learned about perimenopause recently (and what I've unlearned because what I thought I knew isn't true) I may already be experiencing it. Perimenopause Power is here to change finally, this is a book for women experiencing perimenopause and menopause who want to understand what's going on with their bodies and how to deal with troublesome symptoms, but also gain valuable insights into making menopause a positive and powerful experience--yes, it's possible! 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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One answer is: denial. We have had incentives for a long time to pretend we are the same as men in every way. For decades, women have had to argue that they could still work and function through those messy period, pregnancy and menopause-related symptoms, and as a result we’ve minimised them, both to others and to ourselves. So as not to call attention to ourselves as women, we pretend it’s not happening. Boomer women arguably started this, entering the work world in shoulder-pad armour. It makes sense that they felt they had to hide the inconvenient fact of their womanhood, particularly in middle age. Hill also challenges a lot of historical and sexist language (and attitudes) that continue to pervade and permeate through our society. It's not a book to read cover to cover, as I did, but in doing so I found myself increasingly bothered by inconsistencies in the writing style and the incursion of personal biases on the author's part. Much of the content is presented factually and clearly in a popular science style, but these sections are interspersed with profanities (f**king is liberally used, quite unnecessarily - there are far more effective ways of creating emphasis), infantilised language (e.g. wee and poo instead of urine/urinate and faeces/defecate - seriously, what are we, 5 years old?) and little feminist diatribes against the patriarchy. While the last may be justified as a sentiment, it's not what I wanted from the book, which is subtitled 'Navigating your hormones on the journey to menopause'. I found it detracted from the strength of the book for me. The author is vastly in favour of going with a natural cycle and I found it odd that someone so pro MHT/HRT is so anti hormonal contraception - I didn't really see a good reason for this, other than an unreferenced statement that 'having a menstrual cycle is good for the heart, bone and breast health, and has many other benefits too'.

Staying active and eating healthy foods are beneficial for every phase of perimenopause. Aim for 30-60 minutes each day - five days a week - of both aerobic and strength training exercise. This will also help reduce the raised risk of osteoporosis that comes with the menopause. Eat healthy foods Deciding when to stop contraception is more difficult if your periods have stopped due to your current contraception. For example, the implant, the hormone coil and some pills can cause your periods to stop. Another scenario is when your contraception creates a withdrawal bleed (such as a combined hormonal contraception) as this makes it difficult to tell whether you are still having periods. And that was the moment I realised that Jenny the turtle had become my very own paper-towel teddy bear. I'm a big fan of Maisies' work. This book is insightful & helpful with a humourous twist that is her personality shining through. Problems with sleep during perimenopause can be worsened by hot flushes, night sweats, and other uncomfortable symptoms. Weight gain

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People of Generation X tend to be demanding, and they’re having all these things happen to them. Why?” asked Dr Minkin. “What’s going on? They’re being told: ‘Just ignore it; it’s going to get better,’ or ‘You can take an SSRI [antidepressant], which will help your hot flashes – though, yeah, it’s going to make you love sex less and get fat.’ Your options are not too fabulous, but they don’t know how to handle hormonal therapy, because they think it’s going to give you breast cancer. The other part of the problem is that you have such authoritative spokespeople as Dr Kim Kardashian, Dr Suzanne Somers, Dr Oprah Winfrey, Dr Gwyneth Paltrow…”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?

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The average age of menopause is 51, and menopause itself only lasts for one day, because it simply marks the one-year anniversary of your last period. 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 Maisie Hill, the highly qualified women's health expert, best-selling author of Period Power and founder of The Flow Collective , takes us through the physiological changes of perimenopause and menopause, step by step, with calm positivity. In this invaluable guide she shares tips and advice to support women through the challenge of wildly fluctuating hormones.Good idea, I think. We can just take it easy until perimenopause ends. “How long is that, anyway?” I asked.