my ApoB moved and I cannot work out whether perimenopause is why
my ApoB moved and I cannot work out whether perimenopause is why. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
Fertility can change with weight loss and improved insulin sensitivity. That is a well-described phenomenon and worth knowing about in advance rather than discovering.
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.
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.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Standing reminder: nothing here is medical advice, and pregnancy questions go to a clinician without exception.
say what you are actually asking, the vocabulary here is imprecise
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.
The same dose genuinely feels different at different points in the month for me. Took a year to notice and it was in the log the whole time.
Telogen shedding follows a period of significant weight change rather than a specific compound, and it resolves.
Asked a pharmacist about the absorption question rather than the internet. Ten minutes, clear answer, done.
Went looking for trial data on the specific question asked here and found the population had not been enrolled.