The Perimenopause Survival Guide: Make Sense of Your Symptoms and Build Your Personalized Treatment Plan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781538774106)

Are you experiencing extreme fatigue? Brain fog? Sudden anxiety? Heavy bleeding? Low libido? It's not you--it's perimenopause. This cutting-edge new resource from Dr. Heather Hirsch is your everything guide to surviving and thriving in perimenopause.

Perimenopause-- the period of time during which a woman moves toward, but is not yet in, menopause-- can be one of the biggest transitions of a women's adult life, marked by massive hormonal changes. Troubled by symptoms like hot flashes, back pain, anxiety, brain fog--just to name a few--and without any clear guidance from their health care providers about the changes happening in their bodies, many women between the ages of 35 and 50 are left to navigate this overwhelming season of life on their own. But it doesn't have to be this way.

The Perimenopause Survival Guide is the ultimate resource for understanding the hormonal shifts happening within your body so you can make informed decisions about how best to address your symptoms. Written by Dr. Heather Hirsch, MD, MS, MSCP, a certified menopausal medicine doctor and board certified in internal medicine, this crucial guide demystifies your symptoms, outlines how to treat them, and explains why doing so is important to your health today and in the years to come. You''ll also learn how to better advocate for yourself with your doctors so you can choose a treatment plan that suits your unique symptom set, health history, and priorities. The Perimenopause Survival Guide will set you up for an easier menopause journey so you can take back your health and feel like yourself again.