This space is intended to support, inform, uplift, and celebrate people navigating the (peri)menopause journey, as well as our partners. Kindness, compassion, curation, and evidence-based resources are most welcomed!

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Really appreciate this and the comments are extra validating:

Really appreciate this and the comments are extra validating: https://cupofjo.com/2024/06/21/perimenopause-comic/#comments

Not a new article, but one I recently found helpful:

Not a new article, but one I recently found helpful: https://www.feistymenopause.com/blog/Managing-Anxiety-in-Menopause

1/2: It's a delicate dance. "Symptoms surprise" sounds like a vintage diner dessert akin to an unwanted Jello fruit salad...Balancing the hyperawareness of every little anomaly within our bodies/minds when new symptoms appear with the idea that our beliefs about aging can +/- affect our peri/menopause experiences...

The Change

Curious if anyone has recommended books or reading on this topic?

Reposting here and also I see I have some reading to do from what is already posted in this channel 🙏🏼

This. "A Shocking Number of Doctors Don’t Understand Menopause"

This. "A Shocking Number of Doctors Don’t Understand Menopause" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-10/menopause-symptoms-and-treatments-remain-a-mystery-to-many-doctors

A deeply personal account of some recent happenings now on the Menopausey blog: https://menopausey.com/a-little-story-about-some-perimenopause-symptoms-and-some-expensive-tests/

Time to share another symptom! Read more about how hormonal fluctuations during peri/menopause can affect and/or trigger migraines here: https://americanmigrainefoundation.org/resource-library/migraine-and-menopause/. The good news is that once we hit menopause, some people find that migraines decrease or stop.

It’s been a wild symptoms ride in the last couple of weeks. I’ve heard from a doc and an NP that headaches and bleeding longer aren’t indicative of perimenopause 🤔. In the meantime, here’s another symptom from my “Welcome to Perimenopause” series and a few links/resources in reply casts.

A must-watch and newly released TED Talk from Maria Sophocles. Lots of great resources shared under the About the speaker section, too.

A must-watch and newly released TED Talk from Maria Sophocles. Lots of great resources shared under the About the speaker section, too.

https://www.ted.com/talks/maria_sophocles_what_happens_to_sex_in_midlife_a_look_at_the_bedroom_gap?language=en

Did you know that there are dozens of peri/menopause symptoms? I'm using yesterday's personal visit from vertigo as a nudge to start sharing from my series, "Welcome to Perimenopause." Inspired by nostalgia and being fiercely unapologetic, I've created digital pieces for 34 symptoms.

Some useful hot flash context in this article from Ultra Running Magazine, especially as it relates to perimenopause and running:

Some useful hot flash context in this article from Ultra Running Magazine, especially as it relates to perimenopause and running: 

https://ultrarunning.com/featured/hot-flashes-and-running/

❤️❤️ “Essentially, menopause helps create a social role of the whale grandmother. She sticks close to her descendants, helps them in times of need and shares her wisdom.”  ❤️❤️

❤️❤️ “Essentially, menopause helps create a social role of the whale grandmother. She sticks close to her descendants, helps them in times of need and shares her wisdom.”  ❤️❤️ https://www.npr.org/2024/03/22/1198909539/menopause-humans-whales-evolution

I'm looking forward to digging into the Menopause 2024 series from The Lancet. It's so hard to find and make sense of credible information related to perimenopause and menopause.

I'm looking forward to digging into the Menopause 2024 series from The Lancet. It's so hard to find and make sense of credible information related to perimenopause and menopause. https://www.thelancet.com/series/menopause-2024

Women's Health

R&D funding opportunity! Participate in the $100M Sprint for Women's Health from Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). There are six topic areas, including "Wild Card" for transformative moonshots.

Submit a 3-page solution summary by 4/15: https://sprint.investorcatalysthub.org/request-for-solutions/

Working on a couple of proposals at Menopausey...