[Results] perimenopause, 18 months, and why the usual advice failed me
Reporting in. perimenopause, 18 months, and why the usual advice failed me.
18 months. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour.
Brought the cycle-annotated log to an appointment and it changed the conversation completely.
The one practical change that makes this board’s hardest questions tractable: annotate your log with the cycle.
Hormonal variation affects appetite, fluid and symptom intensity in its own right. Without the annotation, a log shows a dose, a week and a set of symptoms that appear to move at random. With it, patterns that were invisible become obvious in about three months.
Members here who have done it consistently report the same thing: the same dose feels genuinely different at different points, and knowing that in advance converts a confusing fortnight into an expected one. It also makes a much better document to bring to an appointment.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Insulin resistance is a common feature in PCOS, which is why the metabolic conversation overlaps so heavily with this board. A diagnosis and a finding are still different things and the distinction matters for what the evidence says.
PCOS and insulin resistance are the thread that runs through this board
Went looking for trial data on the specific question asked here and found the population had not been enrolled.
Are you asking about the compound, the weight loss, or both?
Hormonal variation across the cycle affects appetite, fluid retention and subjective symptom intensity independently of anything else, which is why an unannotated log can look mysterious.
Fertility changed faster than I expected with the weight loss. Nobody had raised it and I wish somebody had.
the trials were not designed to answer most of the questions asked here
perimenopause and this overlap in ways nobody has good data on
fertility can change with weight loss and that surprises people
perimenopause and this overlap in ways nobody has good data on
Agreed, and the research gap being real rather than imagined is worth saying out loud.
say what you are actually asking, the vocabulary here is imprecise