10/14/2025
Finally found the perfect size bag to hold perimenopausal patience! 😂
October 18th is World Menopause Day. 🎉
As GenX women find ourselves smack in the middle of the 8-10 year journey that is Perimenopause, there are profound physiological changes that occur with diminishing estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. It ain’t our Mamas Menopause. It’s not just a few hot flashes and no periods after a year. The tremendous stress of the modern world has really done a number on us.
Common symptoms include:
•body aches (deep hip pain and frozen shoulder are common)
•weight gain (fat cells produce estrogen, so your body makes more to pick up the slack)
•high cholesterol (the building block of hormones…less estrogen, more in the cholesterol bucket)
•sleep disruption
•heart palpitations
•tingling in hands/feet
•recurrent UTI’s, bladder incontinence
•itchy ears, new allergies and food sensitivities (estrogen influences histamine)
•depression/anxiety/brain fog (estrogen influences serotonin and dopamine)
•stress (the adrenal glands are the “backup generators” for hormones and they’re often pooped out)
•decline in intimacy, vaginal dryness, lowered libido (“gray divorce” is the most common age group right now for separation).
The changes of a woman’s body is such an important conversation to have. Previously a hush hush topic (it was only 2 years ago that studies even tested actual female menstrual blood on menstrual products for absorbency! 🤦♀️) it’s now becoming mainstream and we have social media to thank for it.
Women are demanding better care. understanding and support of their lived female experience and bioidentical hormone support is at the forefront.
There are a couple of ways I test hormones: blood or saliva. Blood would be considered the “gold standard” (politics of the AMA is a whole other convo 😉) while saliva provides a look at the actual free and unbound available hormones floating in the body. I can, and do order both.
In my office, I offer bioidentical hormone support and a variety of other nutraceuticals unique to each woman’s test results and symptoms.
If you’re suffering with any of the above symptoms and are interested in learning more, please call or text to schedule a consult 850-737-0080. ❤️