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Practically chugged some wine to help with my #perimenopause cramps 🥲

🥵🥶 SOOOOoooooo I am pretty sure I am hitting perimenopause. I’m looking for ways to make this livable. Open to recommendations for:

1. Plus size legging-style breathable pants that are cooling. Linen is too wrinkly for me.
2. I get too warm at night, but it’s hard to sleep without the weight of a blanket.
3. Hoodies or other top layers for dealing with being too hot/cold back and forth.
4. Any other recommendations that I won’t be able to live without.

#perimenopause #askFedi

Longreads 3d ago

"More than once she scrawled a picture of the female reproductive system on a wall with a Sharpie to help explain things to her peers."

Rebecca McCray for The 19th and The Marshall Project: https://19thnews.org/2026/04/menopause-perimenopause-prison-life-women/

#Longreads #Women #WomensHealth #Menopause #Perimenopause #Incarceration #Prison

Front Page 3d ago

Guy hilariously shows how his perimenopausal wife has transformed into a scent detective

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/guy-recreates-wifes-supernatural-perimenopause-sense-of-smell/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guy-recreates-wifes-supernatural-perimenopause-sense-of-smell

Alison Bladh 4d ago

So many women think menopause is just hot flushes and periods stopping. In clinic, I see so much more: brain fog, anxiety, low mood, poor sleep, weight changes and feeling unlike yourself. Read more here 💗 https://www.alisonbladh.com/post/what-i-see-every-day-in-my-clinic-that-women-dont-realise-about-menopause #Menopause #Perimenopause #womenshealth

Neil Brown 5d ago

New blogpost:

"Resources to aid understanding someone else's perimenopause / menopause"

A collation of reading recommendations, and other bits, helpfully contributed by you lovely lot, when I asked about this a day or so ago.

Thank you, everyone - I have a lot to work through.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/04/resources-to-aid-understanding-someone-else-s-perimenopause-menopause/

#menopause #perimenopause #health

Resources to aid understanding someone else's perimenopause / menopause

I asked for reading recommendations, for a partner of someone who is going through the perimenopause / menopause.

Angela 6d ago

My fellow #perimenopause #ADHD goblins:

When in between my morning ADHD meds and antihistamines, my midday caffeine, and my nighttime progesterone, SSRI and magnesium should I be taking my psyllium husk?

Didn't know I'd need to research "bioavailability" so much just to achieve an "OK" baseline. 💊

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Jonobie Apr 11

Anyhow, all that to say, if you're a person in your early 40s who might experience #perimenopause, it's really worth poking around online (for example the Australian Menopause Society has a symptom checklist that got me started) and seeing how many symptoms you're seeing. Filling one of those out and realizing I was over the threshold by a fair amount was what made me realize I should ask for HRT.

https://menopausealliance.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/MAA_checklist-3-3.pdf

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Jonobie Apr 11

It amazes me that most things happening on estrogen were not explained by a doctor OR they were actively worried about the opposite.

What's happened so far:
- Daily ankle pain that I saw a doc for ~4 years ago has basically stopped. (Diagnosis: Hyperflexible and "this just happens in your 40s")

- Migraines that started about 8 years ago have improved to the point where I'm not really experiencing them. (Diagnosis: "This sometimes happens as people age.")

- Itchy skin on my legs (not dry, itchy underneath the skin) has stopped. No diagnosis, because I don't go to the doctor for weird and small stuff like that.

- Hot flashes at night mostly subsided, but it's become clear that the randomly hot feet I used to get at 2am was ALSO low estrogen. Again, no diagnosis because who complains about that to a doc?

- Returned to younger body smell. Again, not really a problem so ignored.

None of these except hot flashes was discussed with me. #perimenopause

Jonobie Apr 11

I had noticed as I'd gotten older that my body smelled different than it used to, and I'd heard trans women say that they noticed big changes in their scent when they went on estrogen.

But I didn't put those two things together until I went on estrogen and now 6 months later am like - OH HEY, I SMELL LIKE "me" again! (Me of ... mid-30s, I think. Probably not teen me, thankfully.)

Anyhow, once again, thanks to trans women for sharing experiences that help this cis woman understand her #perimenopause. :)