Perimenopause Symptoms
A-Z guide to perimenopause symptoms — causes, what helps, and how to track each one.
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Perimenopause Fatigue: Why It Happens and What Helps
Perimenopause fatigue is often caused by a cascade of sleep disruption, hormonal changes, and disrupted cortisol patterns. Understanding the mechanism helps target the right interventions.
Perimenopause Hair Loss: Why It Happens and What Helps
Perimenopause hair loss involves androgen sensitivity changes and telogen effluvium. This page explains the mechanism, distinguishes types of hair loss, and outlines evidence-based approaches.
Perimenopause Headaches: Why They Happen and What Helps
Perimenopause headaches are often driven by estrogen fluctuations, particularly estrogen withdrawal. This page covers the mechanism, changes to migraine patterns, and what helps.
Perimenopause Heart Palpitations: Why They Happen and When to Worry
Heart palpitations are a common and typically benign perimenopause symptom linked to vasomotor activity and estrogen's role in cardiac function. This page explains when palpitations are hormonal and when to seek evaluation.
Perimenopause Heavy Periods: Why They Happen and When to Seek Help
Heavy periods in perimenopause are driven by anovulatory cycles and progesterone deficiency causing unregulated uterine lining buildup. This page explains the mechanism and management options.
Perimenopause Hot Flashes: Why They Happen and How to Track Them
Hot flashes are the hallmark vasomotor symptom of perimenopause, caused by estrogen-driven changes in the hypothalamic thermostat. This page explains the mechanism, frequency, and how symptom tracking helps.
Perimenopause Irregular Periods: What's Normal and What to Investigate
Irregular periods are the defining feature of perimenopause. This page explains anovulatory cycles, what irregular means, and the bleeding changes that warrant medical evaluation.
Perimenopause Insomnia: Why It Happens and What Helps
Perimenopause insomnia involves changes to sleep architecture, cortisol patterns, and night sweats. This page covers why sleep changes in perimenopause and what evidence-based interventions exist.
Perimenopause Itchy Skin: Why It Happens and What Helps
Itchy skin and formication (crawling sensations) in perimenopause involve estrogen receptors in skin and histamine sensitivity changes. This page explains the mechanism and management.
Perimenopause Joint Pain: Why It Happens and What Helps
Joint pain and stiffness are underrecognised perimenopause symptoms linked to estrogen's anti-inflammatory role in connective tissue. This page explains the mechanism and evidence-based management.
Perimenopause Low Libido: Why It Happens and What Helps
Low libido during perimenopause involves declining testosterone and estrogen, physical comfort changes, and psychological factors. This page covers the mechanisms and evidence-based options.
Perimenopause Memory Problems: Why They Happen and What Helps
Memory problems during perimenopause involve estrogen receptors in the hippocampus. This page explains the mechanism, what types of memory are most affected, and evidence-based approaches.
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