What perimenopause is, when it starts, how to recognise it, and what to expect.
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Conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and psoriasis can flare or even first appear during perimenopause. Here is the immune-hormone link doctors often miss, and what to do about it.
Falling desire in perimenopause is rarely about one hormone alone. Here is how oestrogen and testosterone interact to affect libido, and what genuinely helps before considering testosterone therapy.
For women with ADHD, perimenopause often arrives as a sudden collapse of coping strategies that worked for decades. Here is the dopamine-oestrogen link behind it, and what actually helps.
Miscarriage risk rises through perimenopause for reasons that go beyond simple age, and the experience of loss at this life stage carries its own particular weight. Here's what the numbers show and why it happens.
"Oestrogen dominance" gets used constantly online to explain perimenopause symptoms. Here's what the term is actually describing, where the science is solid, and where it gets oversold.
So many perimenopausal women report waking at almost exactly the same time each night that it can't be a coincidence. Here's what's actually happening in the body at that hour, and why it isn't just stress.
Your haemoglobin came back normal, but you're still exhausted. Low ferritin, your body's iron storage marker, is a common and frequently overlooked cause of perimenopausal fatigue.
One month you feel almost like yourself, the next it all comes back at once. Here's the hormonal reason perimenopause symptoms fluctuate instead of steadily worsening.
Yes, you can be well into perimenopause while your periods still arrive on schedule. Here's why cycles can stay regular even as other symptoms start, and how doctors actually diagnose it.
Menopause can only be confirmed looking backward, after 12 full months without a period. Here is how retrospective diagnosis actually works and why you can't know your last period was truly the last one until well after it happens.