On early menopause
Alone is the best way I can describe it.
Menopause at 40, with no name for the years before it. On carrying the blame, and wishing someone had said it wasn’t her fault.
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RaeCalgary, Alberta · 5 min read
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“Alone is the best way I can describe how I felt.”
On being heard
If someone had simply listened.
Years of heavy bleeding, dismissed at every turn, until a collapse forced the truth
open.
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Gayle F.Hamilton, Ontario · 7 min read
On recognizing it
I see you because I was you.
A nurse of 30 years who didn’t recognize menopause when it arrived in her own
body.
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Anne L.7 min read
On being dismissed
What I needed was validation.
Told it was “normal for her age,” she was left to Google her way through the
storm.
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F.S.5 min read
On brain fog
I thought I was going to break.
Exhausted, losing words, blaming herself, until she learned brain fog could be
perimenopause.
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L.B.Vancouver · 5 min read
On knowing
I didn’t have the language for what was happening.
A hysterectomy at 45, night sweats at 50, and no one ever said the word menopause.
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Mary Anne BlackburnHamilton, Ontario · 6 min read