Perimenopause Temperature Changes: Why You’re Hot and Cold

Perimenopause temperature changes aren’t random—they’re recalibration. Before hot flashes, your thermostat is learning to trust itself again.

Why Your Labs Look Fine (But You Don’t)

You drag yourself to the doctor. Fatigue, brain fog, cycles and other perimenopause symptoms that feel like sabotage. Your doctor says, “Your labs look fine.” But ‘fine’ labs are weaponized to dismiss what your body knows.

Perimenopause After the Pill: Decades of Override

Drop the cutesy term ‘post-pill syndrome.’ What we’re actually looking at is decades of override: muted signals, disrupted rhythms, and depleted reserves. Midlife is the collection call for unresolved physiological debt.

Her Vulvodynia Wasn’t In Her Head — It Was In Her Wiring

Rachel’s vulvar pain wasn’t ‘all in her head.’ Every test was normal; sitting hurt and sex felt like sandpaper. The problem wasn’t her tissue. It was her sensory gain dial stuck on high.

When the Voice Loses Precision in Midlife

She didn’t lose her voice; it just stopped doing what she told it to. No laryngitis, no obvious pathology. Just more effort, less reliability, and a subtle sense that precision had gone missing. The voice didn’t break. The system supporting it got louder and drier.

Estrogen Was Never Just a Hormone

For years, estrogen was taught as a slow actor — a transcription factor working quietly in the background. That model was incomplete. Estrogen also signals rapidly, buffering autonomic reactivity in real time. When that buffer disappears, midlife symptoms make sudden, stress-sensitive sense.