Every year, National Perimenopause Awareness Month puts a spotlight on a stage of life that millions of women move through, often quietly, and often without answers. Perimenopause is the transition leading up to menopause, and for many women it is confusing, frustrating, and far more disruptive than anyone warned them it would be. This month…
Perimenopause
The Perimenopause Decade: What’s Actually Happening to Your Body in Your 40s
You’re 43. You haven’t slept properly in six months. You cried at a paper towel commercial. Your period showed up twice in three weeks and then ghosted you for forty days. And you’re pretty sure you left your keys in the refrigerator. Your doctor says your labs look “normal.” Welcome to perimenopause, the least-discussed, most-misdiagnosed decade in…
Why More Women Are Choosing Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) at Maze Women’s Health
For many women, menopause can feel like they suddenly don’t recognize their own bodies. Hot flashes. Night sweats. Brain fog. Poor sleep. Mood changes. Low libido. Weight redistribution. Fatigue. Many women are told these symptoms are simply “part of getting older” and that they have to live with them. At Maze Women’s Health, we believe…
Painful Sex After Menopause: When Is It Time to Seek Treatment?
For many women, menopause brings hot flashes and night sweats. But one of the most common, and least talked about, symptoms is painful sex. If intimacy has become uncomfortable or even something you avoid, you’re not alone. Research shows that many women experience pain during intercourse after menopause, yet many never bring it up with…
Is Your Sex Life Merely Chug Chug Chugging Along?
Are you sex-stuck? Yup, I just made that up. But please, feel free – make it a hashtag. You know you wanna. Here’s what I’m really asking: is your sex life yawn-inducing? Same ol’ same ol’? BOR-ING??!! Don’t worry – we’ve got you. If you’ve been in a long-term relationship, sex can be deprioritized for…
The New Menopause Movement
“Why is it so hard to find information about this?” my clients in peri/menopause ask me with earnest desperation. My usual retort? “Well, consider the fact 100 years ago, the average life expectancy for women was 60. So, the minute someone started to complain of hot flashes or night sweats, funerals were planned”. It’s not…
Is HRT the End-All-Be-All?
Just a few short years ago, anyone with a uterus was hard-pressed to find accurate and evidence-based information on peri/menopause. And then, like pennies from heaven, it was all around us. Social media, talk shows, blogs, newspaper and magazine articles were finally giving us and our lived experiences the respect we deserved. While those of…
Psycho-Emotional Symptoms of Menopause
Search for a numbered list of menopause symptoms on the web and you’ll find that there’s no one definitive inventory. One site says there are 34, another one says 66 – the cataloging varies widely. Since menopause research is relatively new and medical training for treatment is practically non-existent – and because each woman’s experience…
Benefits of Hormone Therapy for Women
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I would marry HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) if I could. I was in my late 40s and experiencing hot flashes – nay – nuclear flashes, several times an hour, round the clock. As a result, I was absolutely miserable and irritable and I was losing hope…