JOURNAL

Your doctor has ten minutes. What you bring into that room determines the outcome. There is a particular kind of appointment that women navigating perimenopause know well. You have waited weeks to get it. You have been preparing what to say. There is a lot riding on…

Menopause symptoms are driven by changes in hormone levels – especially fluctuating and eventually declining oestrogen and progesterone. That’s often why symptoms feel inconsistent and hard to make sense of –  and why tracking over time can reveal patterns…

Memory is not a reliable symptom record. Noticing that something feels wrong is one thing. Being able to show a GP exactly what has been happening — how often, how severely, and what seems to make it worse — is another entirely. When a GP asks how you have been…

Why knowing about perimenopause isn’t the same as recognising it. Perimenopause is frequently misunderstood and goes unrecognised — even by the women experiencing it. I didn’t recognise perimenopause when it started. I soldiered on until it literally took me down. I…

Most women don’t start tracking symptoms at the beginning of their transition through menopause. Because most women don’t even know they are perimenopausal — just that life isn’t easy and they don’t feel like themselves. Sleep has been off for…

Menopause app data privacy is something most of us have never stopped to think about. But if you’re tracking symptoms, HRT and cycles on an App, it’s worth understanding exactly where that data goes — and who can see it.” Midlife women have raised a…