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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll be 49 soon and am very likely beginning an estrogen patch and oral progesterone and I can’t wait: I was so certain that because I don’t have hot flashes, and my periods were largely very regular despite having atypical PCOS (I am slim and not diabetic, I haven’t taken anything for it in years, but my free testosterone, ovaries and hirsutism show the impact), that no gyn would consider my other symptoms (insomnia, joint pain, mood swings, vasomotor issues with dizziness, hair and skin changes) as something I could remedy.

I know I felt that way because basically women ARE still told to suck it up and deal. It’s deep in the culture. It’s the mindset of most men I know, including friends, who definitely see an “age defying” 49 year old as hot but one who struggles as a loser, a grandma, nonexistent. I still know plenty of women around 45 who believe HRT gives everyone cancer, and I know plenty of Cool Girls my age and older who think because they’re slim and can run a race or do goblet squats, that perimenopause is for lazy women who just “let themselves go.” Who attribute physical changes of hormonal fluctuation to the bad women who don’t woman well enough. It’s a shittacular message and it comes from multiple directions in this year of our lord 2023, and it’s smug, misogynistic, deliberate, and maddening. I’m also frustrated by the whole commerce that’s developed around peri and meno because I think there’s a risk that some women will think it’s somehow “better” or “more natural” or certainly sexier and cooler to get supplements from Goop for 1k/yr instead of seeing a good gyn and talking about prescription hormonal meds. But that’s me.

Other things for those interested to reference:

- Susan Dominus’s NYT article from Feb 2023 titled “Women Have Been Misled About Menopause”
- Dr Lauren Streicher’s podcast 
- Dr Jen Gunter’s whole body of work

Good luck to us all. We deserve to feel ok, and for this portion of life, which could literally be half of our lives, not be treated as a joke.[/quote]

I didn't take HRT because my mother with no family history took it and died of breast cancer. Thank goodness I didn't take it because now they've discovered that I have a blood clotting disorder. [/quote]

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