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I started am now in #perimenopause after losing both my ovaries to #Endometriosis
There is nothing that breaks me more than the thought of not being able to conceive and carry a child of my own in my uterus 👶🏽
This🧵is about navigating the new season which is a neglected topic
There is nothing that breaks me more than the thought of not being able to conceive and carry a child of my own in my uterus 👶🏽
This🧵is about navigating the new season which is a neglected topic
Our ovaries produce eggs for fertilization and also make the hormones (estrogen and progesterone) that play an important role in reproductive development and menstruation.
If, like me, you lose your ovaries early it increases our risk of osteoporosis and heart disease.
If, like me, you lose your ovaries early it increases our risk of osteoporosis and heart disease.
I now appreciate the role my ovaries played in contributing to the good quality of life. I didn’t have to worry about mood changes, vaginal and bladder problems, sexual function, fertility, hot flashes, sleep problems etc.
Talk to me about #perimenopause and teaching. I know lots of people are discussing it, which is great, but I'd like to probe a bit more deeply and maybe write a blog, as it strikes me as a big topic for women of around my age... #edutwitter 1/2
I'm interested particularly in how (or if) it manifests itself, has an impact on work and life, and what strategies people have for managing it - and leaders have for supporting colleagues. 2/2
Gosh! Just finished work and this has clearly hit a massive chord. I haven't had time to reply to individuals at all but I promise I will be delving further into this and doing some writing!
I can relate with the women sharing their stories #BelowTheBelt so many visits to the ER that I remember the number of times I felt dismissed because "it was normal" bring tears to my eyes...
I wonder whether an earlier diagnosis and treatment would have saved my ovaries...?
4 surgeries later and having lost my ovaries and any chance of conceiving naturally crushes me every day
The whole system is broken
The whole system is broken
Fucking finally!
I have been eager to get here, to #Postmenopause finally!
The past five years of #Perimenopause were some of the most difficult of my life.
When they say the #Menopause transition is like puberty in reverse, it is no lie.
The past five years of #Perimenopause were some of the most difficult of my life.
When they say the #Menopause transition is like puberty in reverse, it is no lie.
I remember how overwhelmed by it all 11.5yo me was when I first got my period--the physical changes, yes, and also just as hard the emotional and mental changes.
When I was 13 and then when I was 16, I had my first experiences of depression. They were difficult years.
When I was 13 and then when I was 16, I had my first experiences of depression. They were difficult years.
“This is one of the reasons why I’m talking about it…There are very few women who’ve been in top positions in politics, but of those who have been, if you think about Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Thatcher they must all have gone through this,” Nicola Sturgeon on #menopause
“And yet I can’t find anybody that has spoken about it and that would help me, I think, if I could go and hear or read somebody who had the same kind of anxieties that I have about the very public nature of the job.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-po… #menopause
October is Menopause Awareness Month, also known as World Menopause Month.
We need that awareness and more of it every day.
I've written 14 essays on #perimenopause and aging for FEMINIST GIANT, which are all free to read and share. feministgiant.com
We need that awareness and more of it every day.
I've written 14 essays on #perimenopause and aging for FEMINIST GIANT, which are all free to read and share. feministgiant.com
I’ve been writing about my #perimenopause for a few years now. My essays have covered the physical as well as emotional and mental health impacts of this transition.
I will soon start power lifting & will be documenting that too! Until then 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #Menopause
I will soon start power lifting & will be documenting that too! Until then 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #Menopause
Last year I started regular:
- strength training (for my bones)
- stretching (for my joints)
- walk for an hour (for my heart and anxiety)
- dance (for my heart)
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- strength training (for my bones)
- stretching (for my joints)
- walk for an hour (for my heart and anxiety)
- dance (for my heart)
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But this year, I've been less consistent because I started traveling for work again.
For the coming year, I want to graduate myself from at-home weights to working with a trainer to power lift.
It is consistently recommended for those of us going through menopause. So yalla!
For the coming year, I want to graduate myself from at-home weights to working with a trainer to power lift.
It is consistently recommended for those of us going through menopause. So yalla!
It's #WorldMentalHealthDay and #MenopauseAwarenessMonth.
One of the hardest impacts of #perimenopause for me has been anxiety. I've written about the ways it's kicked my fucking ass feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
One of the hardest impacts of #perimenopause for me has been anxiety. I've written about the ways it's kicked my fucking ass feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin…
There have been mornings when I am overwhelmed with an impending sense of doom. And I wonder if my anxiety–brand new, I was never an anxious person–is my despair at that fuckery that once flummoxed younger me.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #WorldMentalHealthDay #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #WorldMentalHealthDay #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
My #perimenopause has mostly had two settings
- beat someone up
- have a breakdown
Which is why I love the film Everything Everywhere All at Once so much: Evelyn beats many people up and has a breakdown of sorts. It is the perfect menopause allegory. #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
- beat someone up
- have a breakdown
Which is why I love the film Everything Everywhere All at Once so much: Evelyn beats many people up and has a breakdown of sorts. It is the perfect menopause allegory. #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the perfect menopause allegory film.
I don’t care if that’s not what The Daniels had in mind when they wrote and directed it. It’s art. It’s out there. And my menopause claims it! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
I don’t care if that’s not what The Daniels had in mind when they wrote and directed it. It’s art. It’s out there. And my menopause claims it! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
And I don’t know if Michelle Yeoh has ever talked about her #menopause transition. I don’t care, I love her. She’s 4yrs older than me so I’m claiming her too. It is enough for me that Evelyn gets to beat people up AND have a breakdown of sorts because fuck, yes please!
October is #MenopauseAwarenessMonth.
I am “aware” of my menopause every day. To make up for the silence & taboo that ensures we know next to nothing about what happens to our bodies during this time, I'll be sharing some of my essays throughout the month.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…
I am “aware” of my menopause every day. To make up for the silence & taboo that ensures we know next to nothing about what happens to our bodies during this time, I'll be sharing some of my essays throughout the month.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…
If you've ever menstruated, you can go through #menopause, a point in life that marks 12 months without a menstrual cycle.
The time leading up to menopause is known as #perimenopause, and once you’ve reached the point of 12 months w/out a menstrual cycle,you are post-menopausal
The time leading up to menopause is known as #perimenopause, and once you’ve reached the point of 12 months w/out a menstrual cycle,you are post-menopausal
It is not just cis women who experience menopause.
Remember non-binary people, trans men, and other gender non-conforming /expansive groups who also experience menopause and do so under even greater levels of silence and taboo.
#MenopauseAwarenessMonth
Remember non-binary people, trans men, and other gender non-conforming /expansive groups who also experience menopause and do so under even greater levels of silence and taboo.
#MenopauseAwarenessMonth
Menopause is the hardest thing that has ever happened to me. And it’s the best thing I’ve ever gone through.
Menopause is shit. Menopause is amazing. #menopause #perimenopause
Menopause is shit. Menopause is amazing. #menopause #perimenopause
What if #menopause is a dive into the self to explore the myths of what we're supposed to be at this stage of our life, what "success" is, what "milestones" to celebrate or regret. And to then wreck them.
A necessary wreckage.
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A necessary wreckage.
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Is #menopause harder when you’ve ticked off milestones that have become reminders of how few of them lie ahead still; are they reminders, in other words, of how little time is left?
For FEMINIST GIANT, I have written 13 essays on peri/menopause and getting older. Here they are:
#Menopause is the hardest thing that has ever happened to me. And it’s the best thing I’ve ever gone through.
Menopause is shit. Menopause is amazing. feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…
#Menopause is the hardest thing that has ever happened to me. And it’s the best thing I’ve ever gone through.
Menopause is shit. Menopause is amazing. feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…
One of the greatest gifts of #menopause is shamelessness.
In lieu of my menstrual cycle, instead of shedding the lining of my uterus, I am shedding the lining of patriarchal fuckery that I was socialized into.
feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
In lieu of my menstrual cycle, instead of shedding the lining of my uterus, I am shedding the lining of patriarchal fuckery that I was socialized into.
feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
Understanding the macrocosm of the pandemic through the microcosm of #perimenopause: we must emerge, not regress.
I refuse to emerge as if unscathed. I insist that we all be scathed, that we refuse to be the people we were at the start.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin… #Menopause
I refuse to emerge as if unscathed. I insist that we all be scathed, that we refuse to be the people we were at the start.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-fallin… #Menopause
Menopause has made a wreck of me, a necessary wreck. My new essay feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa…
As I promised, I called my latest essay "Menopause is Shit. Menopause is Amazing."
I feel as if I'm almost there now. Deceptive perhaps (when your period returns after 10 months away, you understand menopause can be the great deceiver), but I feel as if I’m arriving somewhere.
I feel as if I'm almost there now. Deceptive perhaps (when your period returns after 10 months away, you understand menopause can be the great deceiver), but I feel as if I’m arriving somewhere.
To get there, I look back at the years behind me as if reassessing a wreckage of sorts. A necessary wreckage. I don’t know who I am becoming but to emerge into her, I must unbecome.
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My #autistic #menopause with and without hormone treatment.
It’s 12 days since my GP told me I had to stop using hormone treatment patches for the next four weeks.
I was horrified.
It’s difficult to describe just how bad things were before I started using HRT patches.
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My #autistic #menopause with and without hormone treatment.
It’s 12 days since my GP told me I had to stop using hormone treatment patches for the next four weeks.
I was horrified.
It’s difficult to describe just how bad things were before I started using HRT patches.
1/
I tried bargaining for a different approach, or a notice period to prepare myself, but it was futile.
My GP emphasised that it was “only for four weeks”.
I reminded her how bad things had been before I started using the patches.
It was non-negotiable so we agreed to disagree.
2/
My GP emphasised that it was “only for four weeks”.
I reminded her how bad things had been before I started using the patches.
It was non-negotiable so we agreed to disagree.
2/
The fact that I’d started using #HRT was entirely due to serendipity.
Last year I had lots of bothersome physical and cognitive symptoms I hadn’t even associated with #menopause.
I assumed that being post-menopausal, I’d have to accept this as my new normal.
How wrong I was!
3/
Last year I had lots of bothersome physical and cognitive symptoms I hadn’t even associated with #menopause.
I assumed that being post-menopausal, I’d have to accept this as my new normal.
How wrong I was!
3/
I wish someone had told me to moisturize my vagina and vulva.
So here I am telling you.
feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
So here I am telling you.
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I am glad someone told me that #perimenopause--the time leading up to #menopause--could take 10-14 years.
Thank you @heathercorinna feministgiant.com/p/essay-bloody…
Thank you @heathercorinna feministgiant.com/p/essay-bloody…
I've been writing/ranting with a frenzy, sharing my abortion stories, working on more essays, and in the middle of this Supreme Court clusterfuck, I regularly think:
Thank all the good things in the world that I'm menopausal. Last period was 8 months ago; 4 more to go. Come on!
Thank all the good things in the world that I'm menopausal. Last period was 8 months ago; 4 more to go. Come on!
I've talked often about how #perimenopause has been kicking my fucking ass. But right now, we are BFFs.
Check out #BloodyHell, the menopause anthology I'm editing for @unbounders unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
Check out #BloodyHell, the menopause anthology I'm editing for @unbounders unbound.com/books/bloody-h…
And remember to moisturize your vagina feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y…
#ThisIs54: It's not my birthday. It's my latest addition to Woman in Her 50s album. For too long, I'd been told I “didn’t look” whatever age that I was. It was said to me as if it were a compliment. It was not. It was the loathing of aging that we are socialized into. 📷@rerutled
#ThisIs54: Not for all the money in the world would I go back to being younger. My 20s and at least half of my 30s were miserable because I felt I had no power. And now here I am, with more power,being told I“didn’t look”this age I feel I’ve finally earned feministgiant.com/p/essay-my-des…
I post #ThisIs54 to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.Â
I write about and celebrate that change. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
I write about and celebrate that change. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
“Because, what is life without some derailing sexual desires?”
Read and most definitely listen to
C. Prudence Arceneaux read her poem and her description.
Thank you, @eileenchongpoet, the first of the friends who sent me this poem yesterday.
Menopause poets.org/poem/menopause
Read and most definitely listen to
C. Prudence Arceneaux read her poem and her description.
Thank you, @eileenchongpoet, the first of the friends who sent me this poem yesterday.
Menopause poets.org/poem/menopause
1. I love that the Academy of American Poets’ Poem of the Day was about Menopause
2. I love that the poem included these lines
2. I love that the poem included these lines
If you think the older we get the more comfortable we are with talking about our vulvas, vaginas, pussies and cunts, you have not heard the silence about what happens to our genitals as we age, and specifically as we go through the menopausal transition.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-in-app…
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I'm working on creating subcategories on FEMINIST GIANT.
Here are 8 essays that feature #Perimenopause #Menopause
1. The Menopause Multiverse
feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
Here are 8 essays that feature #Perimenopause #Menopause
1. The Menopause Multiverse
feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
2. Perimenopausal Nefertiti and My Beautiful Belly
feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #Perimenopause #Menopause
feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #Perimenopause #Menopause
#ThisIs54 #NewProfilePic
I slept 7 hours straight last night and it’s a fucking miracle. #Perimenopause
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I slept 7 hours straight last night and it’s a fucking miracle. #Perimenopause
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Talking of which: it’s a kick to see The Daniels, who wrote and directed #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce reference my essay on @A24’s @allatoncemovie filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/04/da… h/t @voixdemichele
https://t.co/DPTqNV79zN
https://t.co/DPTqNV79zN
Now, whenever I want anyone to know how utterly wrenching–and also liberating– it is to go through perimenopause, I will say, nay YELL: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
I saw #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
I doubt if many–if any–reviews will say it so, I will: THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT PERIMENOPAUSE IS! It is everything, It is everywhere. And it is all at once.
I doubt if many–if any–reviews will say it so, I will: THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT PERIMENOPAUSE IS! It is everything, It is everywhere. And it is all at once.
Everytime Evelyn rolls her eyes, says she’s not ready to fight, picks herself up again, bloodied but becoming steadily determined to break more bones of anyone who gets in her way, I want to point to the screen and shout “That’s it!” #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #Perimenopause
Between crushing anxiety, hot flashes, red hot rage and brain fog, who does not want to beat the whole world up?
I LOVE this film feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
I LOVE this film feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
I channel Killmonger, as problematic as he is, in this essay on #Nefertiti and perimenopause. #ThisIs53 #Egypt
When museums in the West continue to display what their colonizing ancestors stole from us, they magnify a historical theft with their contemporary insistence that they control our narrative. #Egypt #Nefertiti #ThisIs53 #Perimenopause
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In 2007, the Neues Museum, Berlin, refused to return Nefertiti's bust to #Egypt for an exhibition, claiming it was too fragile to be moved. The audacity: asking for permission to display your ancestors’ heritage and being denied it by the descendants of those who robbed you of it
#ThisIs53: it is not my birthday. I want you to see a 53yo woman. I’m saying “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,”at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed.Â
Read & share my new essay👉🏽: feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #Perimenopause
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Read & share my new essay👉🏽: feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime… #Perimenopause
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As I navigate #Perimenopause, l’ve been thinking about Nefertiti and Bruce Lee.
When people think of the #Egyptian Queen, they think know that gorgeous bust of hers 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
When people think of the #Egyptian Queen, they think know that gorgeous bust of hers 👇🏽 feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
But I think of Standing Nefertiti.
My belly nods at her belly, knowingly; in the way that when you’re the only person of colour in a white space you nod knowingly when you see another person of colour. I see a middle aged, cisgender Egyptian woman, like me. And I nod, knowingly
My belly nods at her belly, knowingly; in the way that when you’re the only person of colour in a white space you nod knowingly when you see another person of colour. I see a middle aged, cisgender Egyptian woman, like me. And I nod, knowingly
This is an ode to my 53yo body.
Every week, I post my photo on social media w/ caption “#ThisIs53.
I want to be seen, to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
#perimenopause
Every week, I post my photo on social media w/ caption “#ThisIs53.
I want to be seen, to say “Here is a middle aged woman. Look,” at a time when it seems that every time I look away, my body has changed. feministgiant.com/p/essay-perime…
#perimenopause
A statuette of Nefertiti and a quote by Bruce Lee have become central to my endeavour.
Read my essay and sign up! feministgiant.com
Read my essay and sign up! feministgiant.com
More here #Perimenopause #ThisIs53
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I FaceTime videod with my parents today to say Happy #Eid I told my dad that in the full throes of #perimenopause I was having allergies —a family tradition. I told him that if I don’t have another period by October I will be free!
“Have a party!” he said.
“I will!” I replied
“Have a party!” he said.
“I will!” I replied
