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Evian, whose friends also couldn’t relate, ran into a different kind of friction. Because her menopause was the result of curative surgery for her cancer, many of her loved ones thought she should just be thankful that she didn’t have cancer anymore, she says. “A lot of people didn’t understand that two things could be […]
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Many women also find it difficult to communicate their sexual needs with a partner, Graham says. With masturbation, “You can explore your own likes and dislikes and not worry what your partner thinks.” How to embrace self-pleasure While self-pleasure can benefit women during menopause, don’t feel like you have to do it if you’re not […]
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For years, the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause have been seen as things that women simply must endure. The hormonal shift is inevitable, and so are the crummy downsides, like hot flashes, insomnia, low sex drive, and more. Luckily, that attitude is slowly beginning to change. Expert consensus on warnings around hormone therapy (HT) have […]
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What Addyi probably won’t do is make you spontaneously crave sex. “It might be that if right now, eight out of 10 times, you decline your partner when they ask you to have sex, with Addyi, perhaps you’re declining them only three out of 10 times,” Dr. Rahman explains. And where Viagra can have an […]
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Much to the delight of ob-gyns long espousing the upsides of hormone therapy (a.k.a. hormone replacement therapy, or HRT) for menopause symptoms, the FDA announced today that HRT products will no longer have a “black box” warning. Originally added in 2003, the label calls out risks of conditions like breast cancer, heart attack, stroke, and […]
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The hormonal rollercoaster that marks perimenopause—the often yearslong on-ramp to menopause—is well known to bring some in-your-face symptoms: hot flashes, insomnia, anxiety, joint pain, to name a few. But that same phase of fluctuating and ultimately dropping estrogen levels can also trigger some much less noticeable shifts throughout your body, which may in turn raise […]
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Big news in the menopause world: The Food and Drug Administration has just approved the drug elinzanetant as a non-hormonal treatment for hot flashes. The medication, which will be marketed under the name Lynkuet, is now the third non-hormonal drug to treat moderate to severe hot flashes in menopausal women. There’s been a lot of […]
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If you’re currently going through perimenopause, the 8 to 10 years leading up to when your periods stop and menopause officially hits, it’s probably no surprise when hot flashes, mood swings, and insomnia threaten to ruin your day. These symptoms are, after all, infamous when it comes to the big hormonal transition. What might catch […]
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Levels of the sleep hormone melatonin start to decline during perimenopause and drop more once a woman is in menopause. Stress, which tends to intensify during perimenopause, can also cause sleep disturbances. Additionally, estrogen fluctuations can affect the part of the brain that regulates temperature, triggering hot flashes and night sweats, which lead to restless […]
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Variable estrogen levels impact mood, says Dr. Maki, who co-authored the first guidelines to identify and treat depression in perimenopause. She says that “elevated depressive symptoms” (where you may feel depressed but don’t meet a clinical definition of depression) “reliably increase in the perimenopause regardless of whether a woman has a history of depression.” There’s […]
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Nothing kills the mood quite like seeing blood on your sheets. Unless you have your period, and therefore a clear idea of why you’d be bleeding during sex, your mind may spiral as you wonder WTF is going on. But finding a little blood on your sheets during or even after sex (a.k.a. postcoital bleeding) […]
Continue ReadingIn some rare cases, you could have a severe reaction to hormonal birth control that causes vestibulodynia, a type of vulvodynia (or chronic pain in the vulva) that can also stem from breastfeeding (more on that in a minute!), and some other health conditions. In addition to burning, stinging, and raw, tender skin, “it can […]
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