Perimenopause Myth #1: You Won't Experience It Until Your 50s
Sit down sis, because we need to talk about something that too many of us found out the hard way. For years the word perimenopause was treated like it belonged exclusively to women in their 50s...something far off in the distance, something future you would deal with eventually. So when symptoms started showing up in your late 30s or early 40s, the last thing on your mind was perimenopause. You figured it was stress. Or burnout. Or just life catching up with you. But here's what nobody told us. Perimenopause typically begins in a woman's early 40s to early 50s, and for some women it can start as early as 35! That's not a typo. Your body can begin this transition years before most of us ever thought to consider it. And if your doctor didn't bring it up, and your mother didn't warn you, and your girlfriends were just as confused as you were 😕 you probably had no idea what was actually happening. That's not your fault. That's a gap in information that too m...