12/06/2025
🚨Period nerd alert!
The menstrual cycle is where it’s at!
📈Hormones CYCLE! They’re never the same throughout your month. Without this fluctuation, periods don’t happen!
🤔Why the fluctuations?? Your brain and your ovaries have to communicate to get an egg ready to go! FSH from the brain talks to the o***y and that’s where estradiol comes into the picture. Got enough estrogen and an egg ready??? Now the brain makes leutinizing hormone (LH). Ever done an ovulation predictor kit on your urine? Yep! That’s LH in your urine signaling the o***y to ovulate. Once that happens, progesterone enters the room!
If you get pregnant, the period doesn’t come and hormones rise. If you don’t get pregnant, hormones fall and the period comes. Then, start it all over again.
⛰️The difference between these regular cycles of your 20s and 30s and perimenopause?? Those hormone fluctuations are no longer predictable rounded humps like you see in the picture. They are often mountains and valleys and your body isn’t used to that!
📣The result of this erratic fluctuations: 🩸Uterus: cycle irregularity, heavier cycles, fibroids grow, adenomyosis, polyps, uterus cancer risk.
🧠Brain: anxiety, depression, migraines, hot flashes (yes, they come from the brain), SLEEP disturbance, brain fog)
⚖️Weight gain
💦Genitals: pain w s*x, urinary issues
🔥Musculoskeletal aches and pains
🌵Skin and hair changes
❤️Palpitations..and so much more!
YOU NAME IT! It’s all possible. Put all those together and add in some stress, fatigue and just plain LIFE and we get low libido!
👂Listen to your symptoms! Labs might not catch what’s going on and still having your period doesn’t mean perimenopause isn’t affecting you!! 🫶🏻
