What are the symptoms of perimenopause?

“We see the majority of women who are in perimenopause or menopause do experience what we call vasomotor symptoms. Those vasomotor symptoms are going to be your kind of typical symptoms of hot flashes and night sweats. Night sweats are drenching, soaking sweats that occur at night or when you sleep”

“So hot flashes are more than just feeling hot and they are extremely disruptive.”

“So brain fog, very common, not performing the same way at work as they are typically used to. Things like forgetting words, word finding difficulties, going into a room, forgetting why we're there. general brain fog, insomnia, a huge one, difficulty with sleep, not being able to fall asleep, stay asleep or have good quality of sleep.”

“Anxiety and mood changes is another one. I often see women who have been misdirected, not with bad intentions, … not to say that that's not sometimes appropriate, but often misdiagnosed as a psychological disorder where it might actually be tied to hormones.”

“Rage is one that we see, and that's one that is really common and also has a lot of shame to it.”

“It's the genitourinary syndrome of menopause. So certainly vaginal dryness, painful sex comes with that, urinary symptoms, so urinary urgency, hesitancy, frequency, recurrent UTIs. Those are all potentially caused by that lack of estrogen in the vaginal environment.”

“achy joint pain. It can be diffused, so you've got all of this in multiple joints that you've never had issues with. You're having arthritis type pain. Frozen shoulder is a pretty common one.”

“We gain weight, and we gain weight primarily in our abdomen. That is often, hormonally driven.”

“a change in our sex drive, our sex life, libido, those sorts of things. Very important, not talked enough about”