Category: Is This Perimenopause

Cramping with no bleed means one thing before twelve clear period free months and another after. Where the line falls, what causes it either side, and…

A flush around your period is common at almost any reproductive age. What moves it toward perimenopause is the cycle pattern beside it, and here is…

Itchy skin and the sensation of insects crawling where nothing is crawling are both documented parts of the transition, and both are far less well measured…

Palpitations in midlife are usually benign, but the published evidence is narrower and more contested than the standard reassurance suggests. What four primary sources actually found,…

Aching hands, stiff mornings and a shoulder that froze for no reason get blamed on age. The pooled research disagrees, and the numbers behind the famous…

Breast pain sits on the NHS list of hormonal causes and is missing from its menopause symptom list. What erratic oestradiol does, and what gets checked.

The usual advice is to track your cycle. That is no help with a hormonal coil, a pill packet or no uterus. Here is what the…

Irritability was reported by 79.3% of participants aged 35 and over in the largest global perimenopause survey. But measured anger falls across midlife, and irritability tracks…

FSH rises and falls from one cycle to the next. A single normal reading captures one day of a system that does not hold still, and…

Skipped periods in your 40s are usually perimenopause, but some bleeding changes are not, and pregnancy still needs ruling out.

Early menopause means periods stopping before 45, and premature means before 40. Here is what to look for and why it needs proper attention.

Most women start perimenopause in their mid forties, but anywhere from the late thirties to the early fifties is normal.