I’ve entered my perimenopause era (and I have thoughts about it)
Whoever designed the female body was a jerk.
That’s a heck of an opening, I know, but I have well and truly entered my perimenopause era, and it sucks.
Towards the end of last year, I started sleeping terribly. Like, 3 am-wake-up-like-clockwork kinda terribly. Waking feeling more exhausted than when I went to bed.
And the brain fog. I thought I was losing my mind. I started forgetting things, getting more confused…at one point, I stressed out that it was early-onset dementia. Then I worried it could have been from the Mounjaro GLP-1 injections I’ve been taking. I spiralled a bit.
Next came the joint pain, which I assumed I’d been eating too much sugar and was causing more inflammation.…
