Let's talk about perimenopause

One of my absolute favorite things to do in life is to learn new things. I can’t even count how many extra courses and side projects I’ve occupied my free time with, and it can be about almost anything, like photography, environmental protection, photoshop, stress management, languages etc. Sometimes though these extra courses have ended up being more than something extra on the side, for example my first massage course I took for almost nine years ago was ”just for fun”. 

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The most recent thing I’ve been learning more about is what happens in your body when you’re going through perimenopause. The reason I started to get curious about this subject is because of the last couple of year I have noticed a lot of changes in my body. It started with night sweats, muscle loss, difficulties recovering from training sessions, followed by unexplained weight gain (I have been training and eating more or less in the same way for 20 years, it didn’t make sense to me at all). On top of that, sleeping problems, worsening PMS, increased anxiety, sadness and low mood. ​

I started to not recognize myself at all, it was like I was a completely different person. After some intensive search the answers that showed up over and over again was lists of perimenopausal symptoms. And my mind kind of exploded a bit. Could I be in perimenopause? Wasn’t that only for old people? I mean, I was only 39 when I started to have the first symptoms. ​

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