Extremely pertinent questions you ask of the providers, the FDA etc. I enjoyed your article immensely as it was so nuanced and so grounded in the nitty gritty details of just being human and dealing with all you mention while the hormones are doing their own thing. Gotta love Joanne Lumley. That snap is hilariously beautiful. One of my first crushes. Before I knew exactly what a crush was. But she was, in any case, crushing it. Still is! Great stack. Really enjoyed reading your thoughts. Many thanks.👏✍️
Joanna L. was SO amazing in Sapphire & Steel! Also, she did a stint on The New Avengers! Ah, 60s British telly! SO loaded with goodness! But yes, we are complex genetic-endocrine stew pots and if AI and quantum computing are good for anything, it will be for understanding that... more than swiping 183k authors' books in one fell swoop! Here's to that :) And thanks again for your kind words!
Great medical updates and observations with humor and grace. Because of my former issues HRTs are not in my present or future. I’ve actually had some helpful advice from my Bio Hacker Tribe on FB and Dr Google. I miss AbFab.
Me too! All the old episodes are on Hulu. B/c there are so many people with chronic conditions, what I would love to see is more non-hormonal options for meno symptom relief. Like, I LOVE the new Embr Labs wristband for cooling off and that also helps Chemo patients as well--so the more we can learn and create--the better!
Awwww... honored to be quoted in this post! I've been trying to talk about perimenopause and the larger menoverse with my girlfriends for the past few years, and it's felt like pulling teeth. Some of this is definitely generational. GenX got so little support for our menstrual issues, and it all carried such a heavy stigma, that we mostly learned to keep anything related to ourselves (I still remember the moment when I learned that a close friend of mine's husband had NO IDEA when his wife's period came or went, and thought she must only have it a few times a year!!). I can see that Millennials and GenZ are much more vocal about everything that happens to their bodies, and I'm hoping that as they age they'll increase volume on this conversation. Right now I just want us all to fucking get real about it, if only to each other. But how cool would it have been if all our cultural figures spoke up, too? Like, what if the 4 supermodels in Apple's recent doc actually talked about their meno-experiences as part of their aging process? For that matter (as I've been saying for YEARS), Madonna: you coulda done us a solid. Instead of pivoting to skincare, you coulda strapped us to your back and flown us into a glorious, shame-free, sexually empowered menoverse where we could have loved you even more. PS I ask every single one of my Womancake Magazine interview guests about their meno-experiences, and you can read their answers on our site: https://www.womancake.com/
A few times a year??? What did he think she was? A Lemur? That's insane. My poor ex-husband definitely knew... by mood alone, lol. It would be amazing if more cultural figures spoke up, but they're starting to... between Naomi Watts, Hallie Berry, Judy Greer, Oprah, Parker Posey, and Drew... Cat's outta the bag :) Celebs will still use affluence to ward off aging... but at a certain point... I'm also like... who am I to judge how any woman negotiates aging? It's so deeply personal. They need to set their own narrative tone. I had to have 7 surgeries to put my face back together after the accident, people had so much advice on all the "improvements" I could make... I was like, hello??? I simply want to recognize my middle age face again... I'm good with my wrinkles... I would like to not scare children when I go out or look like so much like Jay Leno, if it's not too much to ask, but people had so many opinions about how to do things. For me it was more about... how to *feel* better in whatever way made sense with or without HRT.
IDK what his problem was, but when I think back on it, male ignorance (willful or otherwise) about womanly bodily processes wasn't uncommon. During my decade as a regular volunteer at Planned Parenthood I encountered many young educators who were completely against the idea of separating genders during Sex Ed classes. They thought we should all be in there together so we'd have access to maximum knowledge, and I mostly agree, although I do think there are times when gender-based caucusing can be quite productive. In any case, add that guy to your Doofus pool. And I think you made excellent points about women having autonomy over our personal narrative. If we lose that we really are lost!
Oh shit! Wrong word. Well said! I’ll leave it at that, and beat a hasty retreat to a sports section or something! Ffs. 🙄
Actually, lol, quite spot-on when it comes to perimenopause!
Extremely pertinent questions you ask of the providers, the FDA etc. I enjoyed your article immensely as it was so nuanced and so grounded in the nitty gritty details of just being human and dealing with all you mention while the hormones are doing their own thing. Gotta love Joanne Lumley. That snap is hilariously beautiful. One of my first crushes. Before I knew exactly what a crush was. But she was, in any case, crushing it. Still is! Great stack. Really enjoyed reading your thoughts. Many thanks.👏✍️
Joanna L. was SO amazing in Sapphire & Steel! Also, she did a stint on The New Avengers! Ah, 60s British telly! SO loaded with goodness! But yes, we are complex genetic-endocrine stew pots and if AI and quantum computing are good for anything, it will be for understanding that... more than swiping 183k authors' books in one fell swoop! Here's to that :) And thanks again for your kind words!
IS fab!🙄I’m on fire today.😳😀
Lol... Not dead yet, mate! 😂
We didn’t see it in Ireland till the 70s. And even then it was constantly repeated. She was fab!
Great medical updates and observations with humor and grace. Because of my former issues HRTs are not in my present or future. I’ve actually had some helpful advice from my Bio Hacker Tribe on FB and Dr Google. I miss AbFab.
Me too! All the old episodes are on Hulu. B/c there are so many people with chronic conditions, what I would love to see is more non-hormonal options for meno symptom relief. Like, I LOVE the new Embr Labs wristband for cooling off and that also helps Chemo patients as well--so the more we can learn and create--the better!
Awwww... honored to be quoted in this post! I've been trying to talk about perimenopause and the larger menoverse with my girlfriends for the past few years, and it's felt like pulling teeth. Some of this is definitely generational. GenX got so little support for our menstrual issues, and it all carried such a heavy stigma, that we mostly learned to keep anything related to ourselves (I still remember the moment when I learned that a close friend of mine's husband had NO IDEA when his wife's period came or went, and thought she must only have it a few times a year!!). I can see that Millennials and GenZ are much more vocal about everything that happens to their bodies, and I'm hoping that as they age they'll increase volume on this conversation. Right now I just want us all to fucking get real about it, if only to each other. But how cool would it have been if all our cultural figures spoke up, too? Like, what if the 4 supermodels in Apple's recent doc actually talked about their meno-experiences as part of their aging process? For that matter (as I've been saying for YEARS), Madonna: you coulda done us a solid. Instead of pivoting to skincare, you coulda strapped us to your back and flown us into a glorious, shame-free, sexually empowered menoverse where we could have loved you even more. PS I ask every single one of my Womancake Magazine interview guests about their meno-experiences, and you can read their answers on our site: https://www.womancake.com/
Well bloody said!
A few times a year??? What did he think she was? A Lemur? That's insane. My poor ex-husband definitely knew... by mood alone, lol. It would be amazing if more cultural figures spoke up, but they're starting to... between Naomi Watts, Hallie Berry, Judy Greer, Oprah, Parker Posey, and Drew... Cat's outta the bag :) Celebs will still use affluence to ward off aging... but at a certain point... I'm also like... who am I to judge how any woman negotiates aging? It's so deeply personal. They need to set their own narrative tone. I had to have 7 surgeries to put my face back together after the accident, people had so much advice on all the "improvements" I could make... I was like, hello??? I simply want to recognize my middle age face again... I'm good with my wrinkles... I would like to not scare children when I go out or look like so much like Jay Leno, if it's not too much to ask, but people had so many opinions about how to do things. For me it was more about... how to *feel* better in whatever way made sense with or without HRT.
IDK what his problem was, but when I think back on it, male ignorance (willful or otherwise) about womanly bodily processes wasn't uncommon. During my decade as a regular volunteer at Planned Parenthood I encountered many young educators who were completely against the idea of separating genders during Sex Ed classes. They thought we should all be in there together so we'd have access to maximum knowledge, and I mostly agree, although I do think there are times when gender-based caucusing can be quite productive. In any case, add that guy to your Doofus pool. And I think you made excellent points about women having autonomy over our personal narrative. If we lose that we really are lost!