perimenopause — my 15-week log, condensed into one table
perimenopause — my 15-week log, condensed into one table. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.
Questions about oral contraceptive absorption and gastric emptying are legitimate pharmacology questions with product-specific answers. A pharmacist can answer them properly; a board cannot.
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.
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.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Pointing the contraception question at a pharmacist. They can answer it properly and we cannot.
log the cycle alongside the dose if you want the pattern to be visible
Telogen shedding follows a period of significant weight change rather than a specific compound, and it resolves.
nothing on this board is a substitute for someone who knows your history
Yes. The research gap is genuine; most of the trials were not designed to answer these questions.
Small fix — insulin resistance is a feature commonly seen in PCOS, not a synonym for it.
iron and ferritin questions come up here more than anywhere else on the site
the trials were not designed to answer most of the questions asked here
say what you are actually asking, the vocabulary here is imprecise
Brought the cycle-annotated log to an appointment and it changed the conversation completely.
Perimenopause and all of this at once, and there is essentially nothing written about the combination anywhere.
Correcting myself upthread: the shedding started at week 38 for me, not the week I gave.
the same dose can feel different at different points in the month
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