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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ and medicine was much more misogynist than it is now!

If any woman suffered symptoms in her 40s and 50s, unless they were heavy bleeding that gave her anemia and were thus quantifiable... all the mental health issues, mood swings and such were just "women being hysterical".

Our mothers may have internalized all this suffering as normal and something to be borne in silence.
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You're right, but I hate that we've swung so far the other way that anything you experience after 40 is perimenopause. I still have clockwork cycles but anything that I try to see a doctor for gets hand-waved as peri. [/quote]

I agree with this. My gyn brushed off lots of issues and told me they were just part of peri (age 48 at the time)  I finally got frustrated and saw another doctor.  Within 15 minutes he had the ultra sound machine out and diagnosed a grapefruit size growth in my uterus! Even I could see it clearly.  I had surgery to remove it. At my follow up appointment the dr reviewed my current birth control plan.  He explained I was not in peri and actually was over producing eggs which contributed to the growth. I am so grateful I switched doctors.[/quote]

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