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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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I’ll never forget when a doctor said to me that my symptoms COULD be signs that menopause is coming. I was floored. And clueless. When exactly does menopause start? What does it look like? What do I need to be aware of? Is my sex life DOOMED when it comes? We breakdown all the common questions, the unknowns and the new ways we can look at menopause, understand it, and even find community in this seemingly taboo topic (because why aren’t we talking about it?)
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0:11.0 | I'm your hostess, Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole and each week |
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0:25.0 | because we are all in this digital space together. |
0:30.0 | So I had some really interesting symptoms after having a baby. |
0:39.0 | I mean, getting my first period again six months after she was born. |
0:43.0 | It was just different. |
0:44.0 | My hormones were really off balance. |
0:46.0 | There was so many symptoms that I still honestly haven't even |
0:50.0 | gotten to a place of making sense of. |
0:52.0 | So I talked up everything to a more complicated postpartum |
0:55.0 | that I maybe had remembered. |
0:57.0 | But then I was talking to my doctor about some of my symptoms |
0:59.0 | and she said, there is a possibility that you are entering into |
1:04.0 | carry menopause or premenopausal symptoms and all of the stuff. |
1:08.0 | And I just felt sudden shock and I was scared. |
1:14.0 | If I'm me going to so scared, I have no idea what that means, |
1:18.0 | what that looks like. |
1:19.0 | I mean, I feel like I just had a baby. |
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