How do I know when I’ve hit perimenopause?
Doctors say diagnosis is usually clinical and doesn’t rely on a blood test, with symptoms often starting in the mid-40s There’s a special frisson to
Doctors say diagnosis is usually clinical and doesn’t rely on a blood test, with symptoms often starting in the mid-40s There’s a special frisson to period changes in your mid-forties.
Every deviation from your usual pattern can feel like a harbinger of the menopause transition, also known as perimenopause. One might spend years staring at their underwear, wondering: am I or aren’t I?
Keren Landman MD is an independent health reporter who is also trained as an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist, with experience serving as a disease detective at the CDC and conducting HIV and malaria research in resource-poor countries.
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