If your nervous system feels permanently switched on in menopause, you are not imagining it, and you are not broken. The rules that used to work, push through, sleep it off, talk yourself down, stopped working somewhere in perimenopause. As estrogen shifts, the system that decides whether you feel safe...
Brain fog in perimenopause and menopause has a way of making you doubt yourself. You walk into a familiar room and forget why you came in. A word you have used your whole life sits just out of reach. You read the same paragraph three times and still lose it....
Advocating for yourself in perimenopause and menopause should not be necessary. But you already know it is. You have described your symptoms to a provider who barely looked up. They glanced at a normal lab and handed you a pamphlet on managing stress. You walked out feeling dismissed, maybe even...
Midlife can bring changes that are difficult to explain: you don't feel quite like yourself, your body starts responding differently, symptoms seem connected in ways no one has helped you understand, and the strategies that once worked may suddenly stop working. In this conversation, three Vetted Konenki Providers approach those...
Is it him or is it your hormones? If you cannot tell anymore, you are not alone, and you are not imagining it. Midlife turns the volume up on everything. Sleep falls apart, patience runs thin, and a relationship that used to feel workable suddenly does not. Sorting out what...
Midlife brings a wave of confusing symptoms, but for neurodivergent women, perimenopause and menopause can feel like an entirely different storm. The brain fog is thicker. The burnout is deeper. The coping systems that worked for decades suddenly stop working, and too many women are told it is just...
Waking at 2 AM for no reason. Crashing every afternoon. Standing in front of a scale that will not move, no matter what you do. That is not a discipline problem. It is what happens when the rules that worked for decades stop applying. This event breaks down why. Four...
Nothing happened. That's the problem. Nothing has happened in a while. No fight, no diagnosis, no single moment you could point to. Just months, maybe years, of sex quietly moving further down the list until it stopped feeling like a loss and started feeling like normal. In perimenopause and menopause,...