What perimenopause is, when it starts, how to recognise it, and what to expect.
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Getting pregnant in perimenopause is possible but carries specific hormonal challenges. Here is what happens to oestrogen and progesterone during a perimenopausal pregnancy and what medical support looks like.
A positive pregnancy test in your 40s can be confusing when you're also experiencing perimenopause symptoms. Here's the science behind when tests can give misleading results — and what to do.
The erratic hormonal swings of perimenopause don't last forever — but understanding how long they typically last, and what drives them, helps you know what to expect and when things stabilise.
Hot flashes, mood swings, fatigue — do these symptoms run continuously or do they come and go? Understanding how symptoms track with the hormonal cycle in perimenopause helps make sense of the pattern.
Oestrogen protects the heart. After menopause, that protection goes. For Indian women — who already carry elevated cardiac risk — understanding what changes and what to do about it is not optional.
The Indian kitchen already has much of what perimenopause needs — phytoestrogens in dal, calcium in til and ragi, anti-inflammatory turmeric and ginger. Here's how to use it intentionally.
PCOS is very common in Indian women. When perimenopause arrives, the two conditions overlap in ways that can be confusing — some PCOS symptoms ease, others worsen. Here is what to expect.
Fatigue, weight changes, hair thinning, mood shifts, irregular periods — both thyroid disease and perimenopause cause almost identical symptoms. Here is how to tell them apart, and why you might have both.
The silence around perimenopause inside marriages is almost as exhausting as the symptoms themselves. Here is how to have the conversation — what to say, what not to, and what to ask for.
A detailed look at how oestrogen, progesterone, FSH, and LH change during perimenopause — the patterns, the timeline, and why these fluctuations cause the symptoms you are experiencing.