What Every Woman Needs to Know About Perimenopause
Sometime in my early-ish to mid-forties things started to get weird. I developed severe anxiety, a full night’s sleep became elusive, I felt achy and old, was so fatigued, I gained weight (especially in my belly), I began having spells of vertigo, and overall, just generally didn’t feel at home in my body. None of this had happened before and it all happened without changing any lifestyle or dietary habits. I felt like I was falling apart. Was this the fabled midlife crisis I’d heard about my whole life? Turns out it was perimenopause.