What I know for sure: perimenopause & Long Covid occasionally conspire to drive me out of my mind. Hoping I am finally entering the Portal which will bring me into my days of Wisdom. 🤞
I’m on the perimenopause side of this, and yep - took me by 100% surprise. Thank god for all the GenX & Boomer ladies (& a couple dudes, mostly not though) who have gotten busy getting some evidence-based info out.
I bought 10 copies of Hot and Bothered and passed them out at the park. You can read about that - and see me SO GENTLY interact with a commentor who recommended “de-stressing”- here.
I don’t go into it there, but excellent Substacker Claire Zulkey’s (Evil Witches) piece in The Strategist convinced me to buy a bed jet. No more sweaty pj’s! (Still warmish, but not soaking wet): https://nymag.com/strategist/article/bedjet-review.html
More info on Menopause please! It's such a wild ride! I'm on hormone pills now - best decision ever, after eight years of menopausal mayhem I surely deserved a break from all the pains, pangs and panics.
I'm with you, Margreet! I knew the meds (first I went back on birth control because a 43 year old woman going back on the pill freaks no one out & is easy to access, even though it's just a higher dose of the hormones offered for MHT) were working when my kids first entire series of orthodontic treatment needs to be repeated and I thought - wow! my first brush with rage in MONTHS! I just clicked through to your Substack and comic about Graphic Medicine. So cool!
Have been through this. Prepare to feel weird! In my case, acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine helped, even though I thought it was the craziest medical thing I had ever tried
https://www.larabriden.com/
What I know for sure: perimenopause & Long Covid occasionally conspire to drive me out of my mind. Hoping I am finally entering the Portal which will bring me into my days of Wisdom. 🤞
When you reach your days of Wisdom, please remember to throw me a rope.
I'll do you one better and weave a net that we can all take turns using.
🙌🙌🙌
I’m on the perimenopause side of this, and yep - took me by 100% surprise. Thank god for all the GenX & Boomer ladies (& a couple dudes, mostly not though) who have gotten busy getting some evidence-based info out.
I bought 10 copies of Hot and Bothered and passed them out at the park. You can read about that - and see me SO GENTLY interact with a commentor who recommended “de-stressing”- here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kellyturner/p/sweaty-hindsight-three-hack-free?r=oqlw9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I don’t go into it there, but excellent Substacker Claire Zulkey’s (Evil Witches) piece in The Strategist convinced me to buy a bed jet. No more sweaty pj’s! (Still warmish, but not soaking wet): https://nymag.com/strategist/article/bedjet-review.html
I can see how books might help... I know I'd enjoy throwing them at people.
That's prob the meno talking.
More info on Menopause please! It's such a wild ride! I'm on hormone pills now - best decision ever, after eight years of menopausal mayhem I surely deserved a break from all the pains, pangs and panics.
Enjoy the break! And now you get to laugh at me - too paranoid for hormones.
I'm with you, Margreet! I knew the meds (first I went back on birth control because a 43 year old woman going back on the pill freaks no one out & is easy to access, even though it's just a higher dose of the hormones offered for MHT) were working when my kids first entire series of orthodontic treatment needs to be repeated and I thought - wow! my first brush with rage in MONTHS! I just clicked through to your Substack and comic about Graphic Medicine. So cool!
Margreet's entire SS is well worth reading - Love it.
I subscribed!
Have been through this. Prepare to feel weird! In my case, acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine helped, even though I thought it was the craziest medical thing I had ever tried
Weirder than usual? Who can tell anymore?
Definitely agree re acupuncture. Big fan.
Haha this is great. I’ve heard menopause is even worse than the regular period shit, I’ll know for sure any day now!
Good luck! IME menopause was absolutely worse. Compounded by my rejection of hormone treatment because at the time research showed bad things. Oy.
Hmmm, raging meno nutter vs raging bloody nutter. Tough call.