Ask most women what menopause looks like, and you’ll hear the same answer: hot flashes. So when the first changes are waking at 3 a.m. for no reason, anxiety that seems to arrive out of nowhere, or losing a word mid-sentence, perimenopause is rarely the first suspect....
You finally made the appointment. You described the exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix, the mental fog, the weight that won’t budge, the way you’re cold when everyone else in the room is comfortable. Blood was drawn. A few days later, the message came...
