From Peri-Rage to Meno-Rescue: Discovering Light at the End of the Tunnel

Hello lovelies,

This week’s blog post is generously sprinkled with colourful language. So, if you’re not into that, skip ahead for the silver lining. Trust me. It’s worth it.

The rest of you, buckle up.

The cause of this is a number of things: the upside-downness of my hormones, yet another friend being told she is not perimenopausal despite her hormone levels showing otherwise, and the icing on the cake was a recently published article on menopause in a MEDICAL JOURNAL of all things.

I’m getting really f*cked off with all these idiots playing down the role of HRT.

It’s insulting to be told that we should try CBT to ease hot flashes. I have done CBT, and how the f*ck is imagining my thoughts on a train leaving a station going to cool me down? Are they saying it’s all in our heads? Do these “doctors” actually know how the body works?

Let’s not gaslight those of us who are struggling. We deserve real options and respect. How about providing women with all of the information available and letting us decide for ourselves what to do with our bodies because we are adults, after all?

I am not a medical professional, but I am a perimenopausal woman — just in case you didn’t realise — I think we ALL need to be educated about what is happening to our bodies. Not just when this shitstorm arrives, and we are sifting through online resources to…