An article calling for anticipatory guidance for menopause — hear, hear!
We can’t believe we haven’t shared this piece by Lisa Selin Davis from November of 2018 sooner.
Forty-five-year-old women need a version of “the talk,” because our bodies are changing in ways that are both really weird and really uncomfortable.
If only, on your 45th birthday, a doctor would sit you down, look you squarely in the eyes and say…”
We at Women Living Better actually think that this talk (i.e. anticipatory guidance for menopause) should happen before 45 — in fact — it should happen in our mid-30s.
In fact, it is our organizational vision. We believe that so much angst would be avoided if women knew what was coming. It’s the reason we created Women Living Better in the first place. Women who are informed will know what to expect, take charge and live better through this sometimes rocky time.
All women’s bodies will change biologically during the menopausal transition and some women will experience symptoms with these changes. Women are differentially sensitive to their own hormones, so in this phase, some women will really feel the effects of fluctuating hormones and others won’t feel a thing.
You can brush up on what’s happening to you now — or what’s coming — here. And please share this with the late 30-something women in your life, it may come as a surprise to them, but in the end, they will thank you.
