How Can I Tell If I'm in Perimenopause? What Are the Symptoms of Menopause or Almost Menopause? What Surgeries Are Sometimes Unnecessary? What Alternatives Are There for Hysterectomy? And What If I'm Not Ready to Give Up Sex?

Martha & Sally talk about the collection of changes that made Sally realize she was in perimenopause, even as her doctors continued to claim that her hormones “looked fine” and they didn’t “think” she was in it yet. 

• Is part of “the change” external and more connected to the messages we’re getting about being “too old” or “past our prime”? (Things that aren’t really reflected in those snapshots of a hormone blood serum draw.) 

• And how do some of those messages contribute to the increase in rather flippant recommendations to “just get a hysterectomy” in our 40s? 

• What IF you aren’t ready to give it up? Your career, sex, your uterus, your right to reinvent yourself?

We explore these questions and more and arrive at some answers in this episode. 

We START this conversation talking about how we’re targeted  — solutions-peddlers are leveraging our pain points to make the sale! And we're not loving that that makes the product sellers our main source of information.

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Take care of yourself. And take care of your vagina!

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