Perimenopause

What is perimenopause?

The term “peri” means around and “menopause” is defined as one year with no periods. This means that perimenopause is simply the time surrounding a woman’s last period. For some women, this is a couple of years, while for others it can last as long as a decade! But this doesn’t mean you are destined to feel confused and out of sorts for all of that time. Understanding perimenopause and its timeline affords us the opportunity to make this transition in stride and set you up for success. The transition from reproductive levels of hormones to lower levels can be eased with a combination of hormonal replenishment and lifestyle modifications.

Unfortunately, most doctors don’t truly understand the hormonal volatility that is happening in a women’s body during the early 30s through 50s. As a result, many women get started on antidepressants, anxiety medicines, and sleeping pills as symptom bandaids during this stage. At AgeWell we want to help you identify the underlying root cause for the symptoms you are having and if it is due to hormonal changes, we want to help you safely replace that hormone with what your body was previously making. Bioidentical hormones are human-identical. This means that the hormones we prescribe are chemically identical to what your body was producing when it was making sufficient quantities. This is great news!