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Abraham Lincoln Ford’s Theatre Rating Shirt

Which is the Abraham Lincoln Ford’s Theatre Rating Shirt and I will buy this opposite of how I felt at age 43 when my periods started changing in the early months of the pandemic. Overnight, it seemed, my cycles shrank by several days, and after three decades of fairly light, manageable periods, there was blood—a lot more than before—and cramps bad enough to wake me in the middle of the night. One rough Sunday morning, when I felt too bad to make a standing virtual card game I played with three friends my age, I sheepishly text- ed that I had to bail because of my period. “Did no one warn us about perimenopause periods to protect us? Like how in olden times unmarried women had no clue about childbirth?” my friend Kat responded immediately. Given that the average age of menopause is 51, perimenopause—defined as the transitional stage leading up to a person’s last period—wasn’t on my radar yet. After years of watching shows like The Golden Girls and Grace and Frankie, I thought I had a handle on what was ahead. And I also thought I had years to get there. That’s because no one ever mentioned perimenopause.


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Official Abraham Lincoln Ford’s Theatre Rating Shirt


To the Abraham Lincoln Ford’s Theatre Rating Shirt and I will buy this extent that I thought about menopause at all, I used to assume that meant a slow fade, with hot flashes and chin hairs waiting for me after my periods trickled out. In fact, it’s the years (or even decade) leading up to menopause—called perimenopause—when hormone levels fluctuate, that can often be the most tumultuous. For all the education and talk leading up to puberty, there’s remarkable silence around this later transition. In a February 2021 AARP survey of women 35 and older, nearly 6 in 10 said the hormonal changes associated with aging weren’t discussed enough, and just 14 percent of women ages 35 to 49 said they felt “very informed” about what to expect. Meanwhile, fewer than half of women say they’ve discussed menopause-related body changes with a mother or mother figure or other relative, their friends, or even a health care provider—ever. When presented with a list of 28 symptoms ranging from night sweats and weight gain to heavy periods, skin dryness, and anxiety, just 7 percent of women could identify the full gamut as potentially being linked to changing hormones. One in six women were unaware of any symptoms linked to perimenopause. “Imagine if you got pregnant and didn’t know what pregnancy was,” says Jen Gunter, MD, an ob-gyn and author. “Not understanding what’s happening to your body is so disempowering.”


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