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Perimenopause: It Is Not in Your Head: A Guide to the Symptoms Your Doctor May Have Dismissed, the Hormonal Transition Nobody Explained, and ... Body, and Sense of Self (The Believed Series) - Softcover

Book 1 of 5: The Believed Series

Press, Pointed-Pen; Whitfield, A. S.

 
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Synopsis

Over thirty symptoms, a decade-long transition, and one blood test that keeps coming back normal. This is the 21-week guide medicine skipped.

Perimenopause can begin in your mid-thirties and last ten years. Yet the average consultation ends with a single FSH test, a mental health referral, or the suggestion to return once your periods have stopped entirely. If you have left that room without answers, this book was written for you.

Perimenopause: It Is Not in Your Head draws on peer-reviewed research and current clinical guidelines to explain what is actually happening in your body and brain, and what to do about each part of it. Twenty-one chapters, each closing with strategies to try that week, reflection questions, and further reading.

Inside you will find:

  • Twenty-one weeks of specific strategies covering symptoms, treatment decisions, advocacy, and identity
  • Why the transition begins years before your final period, and what the hormonal fluctuation pattern actually looks like
  • Why a single FSH test on a single day is an inadequate and often misleading diagnostic tool
  • The full symptom picture: brain fog, rage, anxiety, palpitations, joint pain, hair and skin changes, sleep disruption, and urogenital health
  • The neuroscience of cognitive symptoms, and why brain fog is a direct neurological effect of oestrogen fluctuation rather than anxiety
  • What the current evidence says about hormonal and non-hormonal therapy, including an honest reappraisal of the Women's Health Initiative fallout
  • How to document symptoms and advocate effectively in a consultation
  • Perimenopause alongside ADHD, autism, MCAS, hEDS, dysautonomia, and chronic fatigue
  • Premature ovarian insufficiency, early menopause, and surgical menopause, the timelines medicine is least prepared for

This is not a book that reduces perimenopause to hot flushes and mood swings. It is a rigorous, readable account of a transition affecting every person with ovaries, written by a researcher who did the work a ten-minute appointment cannot.

Part of The Believed Series from Pointed-Pen Press.

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