Midlife Wake-Up Call for My 40+ Sisters

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Middle age is a reckoning

Those cutesy, coy warnings from your aunties about the Change should have been offered with you strapped to a gurney.

“LISTEN!”

A dousing of cold water. A slap, maybe.

At least a Valium.

“Prepare yourself, honey. You don’t have much time!”

I wish to God someone had warned me.

Nine years of unexplained, progressively worse symptoms.

• Hair loss
• Memory loss
• Brain fog
• Insomnia
• Weight gain
• Dry skin
• Digestive issues
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Mood swings

When you have one or two symptoms, it’s easy enough to chalk it up to aging, but when they are all stacked together in a shit sandwich, it’s a lot to bear.

I’d seen every specialist under the sun: endocrinologists, naturopaths, gynecologists, internists, psychologists, neurologists, and GPs.