Deep dives into individual perimenopause symptoms — what causes them and what to do.
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Oestrogen touches almost every system in the body, so when it falls in perimenopause the signs show up in unexpected places — from your sleep and mood to your joints, skin, and bladder. Here is the full picture of what low oestrogen actually feels like.
Vaginal atrophy — also called atrophic vaginitis or GSM — is the thinning and inflammation of vaginal tissue when oestrogen falls. It is extremely common, often mistaken for infection, and highly treatable. Here is what to know.
If vaginal dryness has appeared seemingly out of nowhere — along with less discharge or discomfort you never used to have — it is unsettling. Here is what causes sudden dryness, why perimenopause is so often behind it, and what to do.
The years around perimenopause are when bone loss accelerates the most. They are also the years you have the most power to slow it down. Here is what actually protects your bones, and what to do now rather than later.
Needing the toilet more often, sudden urgency, waking at night to go, the occasional leak — these are common and rarely talked about. There is a clear hormonal reason, and there is a lot that helps.
Cramps outside your period, bloating that will not shift, lower abdominal aching with no obvious cause — perimenopause affects the gut, the uterus, and the pelvic floor in ways that all show up as abdominal symptoms.
Ringing in the ears, a feeling of fullness, muffled hearing, or aching ear pain with no infection — the ears have oestrogen receptors, and perimenopause affects them in ways most doctors do not mention.
A deep ache in the hips, difficulty lying on one side at night, stiffness getting up from a chair — hip pain is a recognised and common symptom of perimenopause that most women are never told to expect.
Dryness, discomfort, pain during sex, burning when urinating — these are not inevitable or untreatable. Vaginal dryness is one of the most common symptoms of perimenopause, and one of the most effectively managed.
Breast pain that is more intense than before, coming at odd times in your cycle, or present almost constantly — perimenopause is a very common cause, and most women are not told this.