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Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

And I grew up in Texas and Florida, you know, you couldn't get anywhere if you didn't drive somewhere.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

It wasn't like there was a subway.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

It wasn't, you know, what I would have in New York.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

And so I understand it's a real thing.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

It's a real thing.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

And those hormonal shifts happen.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

can happen really quietly and they can go up and down and then they're quiet and then they go up and down.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

And so I do think that that's so incredibly important.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

You know, I was going through my divorce when I now realize I was also going through perimenopause.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

So I thought that a lot of my anxiety was due to that, which I don't discount that.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

I'm sure some of it was, but it definitely wasn't everything.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

It wasn't the reason my hair was falling out.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

It wasn't the reason I

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

I wasn't sleeping every night.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

It wasn't the reason that I had rage.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

And so I really, that's why it's been so important for me to have these conversations with younger women because I sure wish that my mom had been around to do that for me.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

Yeah.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

So when you go to the doctor and you're saying, okay, you go to the OBGYN, I personally think people that go to family doctors and get all this stuff, I'm like, no, you need to go to a specialist who really understands and is educated.

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

When they say, okay, let's do a blood test, I always question if the blood tests are... How specific and detailed do you need to get?

Untraditionally Lala
No One Warned Me About Perimenopause

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