Perimenopause Is No Joke!

Let me first start off by saying nobody warned me! Somebody should’ve warned me about the rollercoaster ride Perimenopause would take me on because I was not prepared. Looking back, I was walking around with these symptoms since the age of 38 and had no clue. Every doctor I went to dismissed my symptoms as “in my head” because on paper I looked “normal” or “healthy” but the truth is I wasn’t. My hormones were in chaos and my body was trying to tell me I was perimenopausal, but I didn’t know it. Instead of trying to look more into my symptoms, some of my doctors wanted to pump me full of pills because they thought I was mental.

Perimenopause will have you thinking you are dying or losing your mind because your hormones are all out of whack during this phase of life. Again, nobody warned me. I was having brain fog so bad that I thought I was getting early dementia. I started having anxiety attacks out of no where with no cause or trigger which had never happened before. I started having heart palpitations from caffeine (i.e. sodas and coffee) which had never been a problem before and now I’m afraid to consume any type of caffeine because I don’t like the heart palpitations and the racing heart beats that come from it. Adding to that, the feeling of something biting me or crawling on me had me thinking insects or spiders were on me. Keep in mind that some of these symptoms are just a few that I am mentioning.

Perimenopause is not regularly talked about and that needs to change because perimenopause is not for the weak. So many women like myself have been walking around here thinking we are dying, going crazy or losing our minds and it shouldn’t be that way. Many are suffering in silence. Hear me when I say that I love being a woman and I love getting older because with age comes wisdom, but our hormones need to get it together. Why? Because they will sometimes have us acting a straight fool for no reason and I’m sick of it, over it.

With all that being said, let me end this post by saying I’m way too stubborn to allow something like perimenopause to get me down. I will not let it get the best of me because this too shall pass! So keep your heads up ladies. We are going to get through this!

💪🏾-Anita