Perimenopause Power: Navigating your hormones on the journey to menopause

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Perimenopause is a window of opportunity for Maisie Hill: ‘Perimenopause is a window of opportunity for

Four of the production team at Finestripe in Glasgow were on HRT, and the director, Linda Sands, has three young children. So for those of you who don’t know NICE, it stands for The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence here in the UK. Not a great read for anyone experiencing the peri menopausal symptoms of brain fog and trouble concentrating.But we’ve got the childbirth year and the perimenopause decade, and we spend a third of our lives as postmenopausal women. But as I left Dr Newson’s clinic, I thought that if I, as a white, cis, rather privileged, well-informed journalist had made such an omnishambles of my own health, what was happening to those who couldn’t afford a private consultation?

Perimenopause is a window of opportunity for Maisie Hill: ‘Perimenopause is a window of opportunity for

This was a really valuable and illuminating insight into the world of the perimenopause, and it just felt so good to read and get to understand what is going on with our bodies! If you live long enough you quit chasing the things that hurt you; you eventually learn to hear the sound of your own voice. But here’s what my clients have shared with me over the years and this is what my experience of this stage of life has been like so far. I read it cover to cover without skimming but there was so much to take in with what felt like some conflicting information and upon finishing I am not much the wiser.

The phrase 'All the rage, All the time' struck a chord with me as I was reading and that is the strength of this book as it really speaks your language if you're suffering various symptoms!

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The menopause is actually only one day, “it marks 12 months since your last period, after which you’re postmenopausal,” Hill explains. There has been a lot of scaremongering around the use of HRT, we’re used to reading and hearing about how it causes an increase in breast cancer and cardiovascular disease.In the growing trend for women to get a handle on their menstrual cycle and hormones, Maisie is a go-to authority and is quoted in publications from The Guardian to Grazia. There are oestrogen receptors in every part of your body and if fluctuating hormones are sending erratic electrical signals to your heart and internal thermostat, what messages might they send to your mind? 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. Which is why it’s so important to go to your GP with an awareness of what’s going on with your cycle.