So the last couple of years, especially since the beginning of this year, my wife has been in the throes of peri-menopause.
That is, the changes women go through before menopause. You would think that early on, the doctors would have correctly diagnosed her.
No such luck. These days, because of birth control pills, most women have the effects of peri-menopause much reduced. They're still present though, they just don't realize it, because all that knowledge has been lost by the general population because it basically skipped a generation. We've forgotten that the “change of life” happens before your periods stop, not after.
In my wife's case, because of fertility issues, she's never taken birth control pills. So she had a wide range of weird unexplained symptoms: lack of energy, GERD, GERD-related asthma. Even with an Eastern approach, I couldn't find much of anything wrong.
Luckily, a friend of the family had recommended a book:
The Change Before the Change: Everything You Need to Know to Stay Healthy in the Decade Before MenopauseMy wife started reading it...pretty much every symptom she had was related to perimenopause. Not only that, but reading the book, she realized that while cancer didn't run in her family, depression and divorce around age 44 did...
So now she's on low-dose birth control pills, and its made a world of difference. As we say around here now, We Love Estrogen.
Thought I'd pass that along to any women in their 40's or men married to them. Buy that book.
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