Ashley thought her hot flashes and mood swings were just aging. Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why women dismiss perimenopause symptoms as normal, and why recognizing them as a distinct health phase changes everything.
So I would ask you, Ashley, did you realize at the time that the symptoms that you were having wasn't just part of life? It wasn't, you know, oh, I'm just getting older. Because I think women actually medically gaslight themselves sometimes and just say, oh, you know, it's just part of getting— and you were young, obviously. I mean, look at the 40 and 50-year-olds that we all see, that they're like, oh, you know, it's just perimenopause, it's nothing, I just have to learn to deal with it. Because You know, my neighbor is dealing with the same thing, and they don't even realize how good they can feel.
