A YouTube short by McCall McPherson where the host asks how to know if one is in perimenopause. An expert (author of The Perimenopause Revolution) answers that clinical diagnosis is based on symptoms, age, and menstrual cycle changes, and highlights subjective feelings like 'not feeling like yourself' (noting their own experience around 43–44).
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Like, so many women are always, well, how do I know if I'm in perimenopause? Is it. Do I start that at 40? Do I start it at 49? Like, is there a way to objectively know? Is there a way to test for it? What does that look like?
I love this question, McCall, because I. I would say this is the number one question I get from my community, and even my patients are just like, am I in perimenopause? And this is literally the number one reasons why I wrote the book the Perimenopause Revolution is to answer this question. So I will say that how we clinically diagnose perimenopause is really based on symptoms, based on your age, and based on cycle changes. And the thing that I noticed the most, and this was very much the case for me at 43, 44 years old, was that I didn't feel like myself anymore. That's the thing. When we come to me, like, something isn't right. Like, I can't just blame this on stress and work and motherhood and all the things everyone tells me to blame it on. Like, no, the rug is getting pulled from under me. Something else is happening here, and it's the math. Is it mathing when it comes to my health? Like, something isn't right, and it is.
