{"id":2768,"date":"2011-02-07T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T10:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:48:30","slug":"the-menopause-peri-menopause-why-wont-anyone-talk-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/02\/the-menopause-peri-menopause-why-wont-anyone-talk-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Menopause? Peri-menopause? Why won’t anyone talk about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Local trying to amuse his wife and failing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Avert your eyes boys this is not for you.<\/p>\n

Really.<\/p>\n

As women we talk about everything, EVERYTHING, well everything but this. Here goes.<\/p>\n

The change. The menopause. The peri-menopause.<\/p>\n

Told you boys now off you go.<\/p>\n

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Me - after another sleepless night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From your late 30 things can go a bit awry, irregular either non-stop rivers of Babylon<\/p>\n

Or once in a blue moon.<\/p>\n

Sleeping goes to pot \u2013 my personal nadir and a thousand other symptoms can kick in. Hot flushes, mood swings, low sex drive, weight gain are a few of dozens of symptoms<\/p>\n

So you got to the Dr. and they smirk and go \u2018 och it\u2019s just the peri-menopause\u2019<\/p>\n

JUST! Now hang on a minute sunshine\u2026there is no \u2018JUST\u2019 about it.<\/p>\n

And whilst we\u2019re at it what is the \u2018peri-menopause\u2019 anyway?<\/p>\n

So with this in mind, the confusion, ignorance, lack of support I have<\/p>\n

just completed a Radio Program called Medical Matters which will be broadcast<\/p>\n

on the BBC Scotland this Wednesday<\/a> _ repeated on Sunday \u2013 but you will get it on iplayer if you miss it.<\/p>\n

Fascinating stuff.\u00a0 I talk to herbalist Dee Atkinson<\/a>, a GP, a specialist Dr. Heather Currie and some women who have been there, got the t-shirt and survived the general hell of the whole thing.<\/p>\n

It may be something you know all about. If so then you are in the minority.<\/p>\n

If, like me & producer Debbie McPhail you have 10000 questions about the whole thing then tune in. I can promise you lots of interesting facts, figures and information \u2013 and even a couple of laughs.<\/p>\n

As ever the girls talking helps. It really does.<\/p>\n

So this Wednesday BBC Scotland<\/a> 3.30pm Help is at hand. Or more accurately ear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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