Are you in your 30s or 40s and experiencing really non specific symptoms? 

Burning tongue, crawling skin, hair loss, gum disease, restless legs, burning feet, palpitations, anxiety…. The list goes on.

This could be perimenopause. This is the time leading up to the menopause, where the hormones oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone start to fluctuate.

Did you know that symptoms may begin years before menopause is officially diagnosed, which is a retrospective diagnosis, 12 months after your final period.

At this stage, your periods may be normal and changes to your body are vague or subtle. For many perimenopausal and menopausal women, there isn’t a hot flush in sight, a symptom often used to definitively diagnose menopause. When symptoms are so vague, making the right diagnosis is not always straightforward. But we should be seriously considering perimenopause as a possible cause for puzzling symptoms in this key age range.

*keeping a diary can help identify emerging patterns*

If this sound familiar, contact your doctor and get the support you need to see if this could be perimenopause.