What is it and why are healthcare providers not prepared to help women when they seek out assistance? Why is half of the population still suffering, most of them in silence? We can ask endless questions to most health care providers but most of them will not answer. Women’s health has been deemed as unimportant. Medical schools do not educate on hormones. Therefore, gynecologists are not prepared to offer menopausal women guidance on this subject.Be prepared when you do want to talk about your strange symptoms that you will be brushed off and a prescription for an anti-anxiety medication will be given to you. Before you get that filled make sure that you look at the side effects. You do not want to trade one symptom for another one.Ladies, you are your own health advocate. You need to rely on your inner knowledge of your body to know that something is not right. Heavy periods, hot flushes, night sweats, irritability, painful sex, sleeplessness. These are only a portion of the different symptoms that you may encounter. Everyone is different. You may have no symptoms, and then again you may have multiple symptoms. Knowing what to look out for and to be able to place the pieces together can be reassuring.The chaotic phase of perimenopause normally starts in your late 40s and lasts about 4 years. This is when your reproductive organs start adjusting to your estrogen and progesterone levels become erratic. Your periods become unpredictable and when they do show up, they tend to be heavier than what you have normally experienced. You will also find that you will start skipping periods, and sometimes they will be lighter. Pro-tip always carry a tampon in your bag, and an extra pair of panties close by.During this time bone loss accelerates, and…
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