Dr. Mary Claire Haver

We call it the Menopause Quiz.

And you go, you answer about 20 questions, and you grade your symptom severity, and it will tell you what the chances are that your constellation of symptoms is related to menopause.

At the end of it, when you get your results and it's totally free, it will give you a resource guide that you can take to your doctor and resources in how to find a clinician who can have a legitimate conversation with you about what your options are at that point.

So yes, your mental health changes.

Yes, your weight changes.

Yes, your joint pain.

Yes, absolutely your sleep disruption, often one of the first things to go because progesterone

is great for sleep, is amazing for sleep.

And when that progesterone starts drifting away in perimenopause, one of the things that we see in almost up to 50% of patients is severe sleep disruption.

Not just occasional insomnia, we're talking a definite pattern where you are not getting the quality sleep that you deserve.

Next question.

My doctor tested my hormones and said that they are normal, but I feel anything but normal.

How is that possible?

Again, in that zone of chaos, a one-time blood test, even saliva or urine test, is a simple snapshot of what is happening in one moment in time and is not representative of what is actually going on in your body.

So it is very, very likely that you will have some blood drawn and, hey,

It looks normal, whatever that means to that doctor.

Remember, in premenopause, before menopause enters the chat, we don't have steady state hormones other than maybe testosterone.

Our estrogen ebbs and flows normally in the menstrual cycle, as does our progesterone.

So it really depends.

If you're having regular cycles,