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Today, information about perimenopause is more prevalent and accessible than ever. If you\u2019re a woman in your 40s and you\u2019re not feeling 100%, chances are there\u2019ll be someone online ready to tell you you\u2019re in perimenopause. And that you might want to start spending your money on blood tests, apps, and supplements or demanding hormone replacement therapy. But as regular readers might have guessed by this point, it\u2019s not that simple.<\/p>\n
Perimenopause tends to start around the age of 46 or 47. It\u2019s during this time that many women start to experience some symptoms like hot flashes, irregular or unusually heavy periods, or anxiety, for example. And it can be heavy going. \u201cOften symptoms are at their worst in the perimenopause,\u201d says Mary Ann Lumsden, former president of the International Menopause Society.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because hormones can fluctuate wildly. Levels of estrogen, progesterone, luteinizing hormone, and follicle-stimulating hormone can roller-coaster before leveling off after menopause. And that\u2019s why, despite what some marketers will claim, there is no test for perimenopause<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t interpret hormone [measures] because they change so much,\u201d <\/strong>says Lumsden. \u201cAnd that is quite normal.\u201d<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t mean women should have to put up with symptoms. But exactly how those symptoms are treated is another topic that has been clouded by misinformation.<\/p>\n Last week, I told a friend about some unusually bad pelvic pain I\u2019d experienced. Her immediate advice was to find out if I was perimenopausal and, if I was, to request hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as soon as possible. If my doctor wouldn\u2019t prescribe it, she continued, I should simply find another doctor who would.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #lot #hype #perimenopause #Dont #buy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, information about perimenopause is more prevalent and accessible than ever. If you\u2019re a woman…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1029,401,2792,1027,11922],"class_list":["post-17546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-buy","tag-dont","tag-hype","tag-lot","tag-perimenopause"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2210176273-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}