This Meno Life

health, fitness, medicine · EN

Perimenopause arrives without an announcement. Night sweats, words that ghosted you mid-sentence, a rage that arrives before you do, jeans that betrayed you overnight, and a sex life that used to be uncomplicated and now requires a strategy meeting. You pay your copay. Your labs come back normal. You leave empty handed. This Meno Life is a weekly show for women in perimenopause and menopause. I'm Dr. Sian West, board-certified OB-GYN and menopause specialist, and I spend my days on the questions a short appointment never reaches. The hot flashes and the sleep that fell apart. The weight that arrived without a single change in your habits. The rage that shows up out of proportion to whatever caused it, and the moods that swing hard enough to scare you. Painful sex and vaginal dryness, which not only did nobody warn you about, nobody likes to talk about, and far too few clinicians are trained to treat it. And the bigger one underneat