Over Forty? Have These Symptoms of Perimenopause? It’s a standing joke that everyone starts to go downhill at age 40, but the symptoms that many women experience around this stage if life are certainly not funny. As you move toward about age 50, the symptoms of perimenopause kick in. Many of the most common symptoms …
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Lynne Cobb has some interesting suggestions for tools to use during menopause – and we think they’re kind of brilliant. Read more from Lynne on her blog. “I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I’m from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare …
Marcia Kester Doyle refused to believe that she’d ever end up one of “those women” standing under the fan at the party … we’ll see how that turned out. Read more from Marcia on her blog, Menopausal Mom. When I was in middle school and heard my mother and her friends discussing hot flashes, I thought …
(This is a sponsored post.) One of the best parts of reaching midlife is that it seems like we’ve all grown more accepting of our bodies and all of the weird and horrifying things that they put us through. Hearing loss, painful sex, gray hair — we’re wonderfully open about these shared struggles. Here’s a crazy statistic for you: …
What the heck is up with middle age acne? I don’t eat mountains of chocolate or greasy food to stimulate pimple production (even if that is a myth), so why do I get the connect-a-dot cluster of red bumps on my face every couple of months? Preparation for a phantom period? There is no more …