How long does menopause last? The word covers three things with three timelines. The largest American study found the transition runs 4.4 to 8.6 years, and the age it started decides most of it.
Cramps but no period in your forties usually means the cycle has lost its timing, not that something new has gone wrong. What the endocrinology shows, the other causes side by side, and the one pattern that belongs with a doctor.
Irregular periods in perimenopause are not random. A reproductive endocrinologist explains why ovulation goes first, what’s ordinary, and what’s worth a call to your doctor.
Does progesterone cream work? Two clinical reviews find real skin absorption but no proof of endometrial protection, and wild yam creams contain no usable hormone at all.
Why did my cholesterol go up in menopause when nothing else changed? A study of 1,054 women found the rise clusters in one specific year, and it is not the year you would guess.
Why am I so hungry at night is usually answered as a discipline question. The trials answer it as an arithmetic one: short sleep adds calories to the following day and adds nothing to what you spend.
Bone loss in menopause runs to a timetable almost nobody is shown. It begins about a year before the last period, moves fastest for roughly three years, and nothing about it feels like anything.
Migraines in perimenopause are usually read as a new fragility. The mechanism runs the other way: the same trigger you always had, arriving on no schedule you can plan around.
Does HRT help brain fog? Three randomised trials measured cognition in more than 5,000 women. None of them found a cognitive benefit, and none of them measured the symptom women actually describe.
PMS getting worse in perimenopause is an experience with a partial explanation and an unfinished literature. What the research points at is change itself, rather than the level of anything.
