Category: Menopause
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How to Cope With Hormones and Sleep Problems During Perimenopause
According to CDC research, 25% of perimenopausal women have trouble falling asleep more than four nights per week. Even more have trouble staying asleep, and over 50% of surveyed women don’t wake up feeling rested…
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What Is the Best Treatment for Menopausal Depression?
Menopause can be a difficult time. Intrusive symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, painful sex, and sleep problems can create physical discomfort and emotional distress. Meanwhile, the transition out of your fertile years can be…
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Menopause Hormone Therapy Pros and Cons: Choosing the Right Path Forward
Nearly every woman will go through menopause. Except for women who have had their ovaries removed before puberty, it is an experience as universal to womanhood as anything. But just as each woman’s personality and…
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Why Does Perimenopause Cause Anxiety? Helping Women Find Answers
When you struggle to fall asleep at night due to racing thoughts, you might brush it off as just another side effect of stress. When you wake up every morning feeling dread for the day…
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Is PMS Worse During Perimenopause? Why It’s Not Just Your Imagination
Kim experienced the worst cramps of her life on the day she turned 46. She’d never really dealt with PMS before—only the occasional moody afternoon or minor breakout, nothing debilitating. But from that cycle onward,…
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Being There: How to Support Your Partner During Menopause
It’s easy to be a partner during easy times. That’s a simple statement, but being long-term partners with someone is sometimes relatively straightforward. Things are normal, and you both know the rules and know how…
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How to Treat Mood Swings During Menopause
Mood swings are some of the least-understood aspects of menopause—and the most misrepresented. While pop culture representations of menopause tend to center specifically on mood, they typically treat menopausal women as a caricature of irrationality…
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Why Am I Tired After My Hysterectomy? There Is Hope for Recovering Your Energy
Angie couldn’t understand why she felt worse after the hysterectomy than she did before. At first, she assumed she was still recovering and just needed to give it a bit more time. But even seven…
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How to Prevent Osteoporosis After Menopause: Stay Strong As You Age
After years of warnings from doctors, public health campaigns, and loved ones, women know to be on their guard when it comes to osteoporosis. Too many of us have seen the toll that osteoporosis can…
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Pain During Sex After Hysterectomy: Why It Happens, and How to Treat It
Dyspareunia is a big, intimidating word for something most women dread: experiencing pain during sex. Especially for women who have recently undergone a partial or total hysterectomy, painful sex can be scary and even heartbreaking.…