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c/glp1women·posted 1 year ago by u/santiago_marchetti

someone explain perimenopause to me like I have not read a paper in years

Fertility Cold Box ×4 Sourced ×3

someone explain perimenopause to me like I have not read a paper in years — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice.

Perimenopause and all of this at once, and there is essentially nothing written about the combination anywhere.

The hair shedding was the thing that frightened me most and the thing that mattered least. It stopped.

Went looking for trial data on the specific question asked here and found the population had not been enrolled.

Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.

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u/hair_shed_hannah226 points·1 year ago

Questions about oral contraceptive absorption and gastric emptying are legitimate pharmacology questions with product-specific answers. A pharmacist can answer them properly; a board cannot.

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u/santiago_marchetti152 points·1 year ago

Are you logging the cycle alongside the dose?

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u/micro_bump_mick159 points·1 year ago

Has this been raised with whoever prescribes?

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u/honest_syringe_202587 points·1 year ago

Has this been raised with whoever prescribes?

Disagreeing with this line: the absorption question has a product-specific answer and a pharmacist has it.

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u/santiago_marchettiOP44 points·1 year ago

cycle timing changes how the same week feels

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u/jarno_karlsen122 points·1 year ago

Fertility changed faster than I expected with the weight loss. Nobody had raised it and I wish somebody had.

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u/santiago_marchettiOP47 points·1 year ago

PCOS is a diagnosis, not a description, and it matters which you mean

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u/mei_cardoso12 points·1 year ago

Where in the cycle does this fall, if you are tracking it?

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u/santiago_marchettiOP-28 points·1 year ago

Where in the cycle does this fall, if you are tracking it?

Agreed, and the research gap being real rather than imagined is worth saying out loud.

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u/greta_nilsen10 points·1 year ago

fertility can change with weight loss and that surprises people

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The questions the trials under-powered: PCOS and insulin resistance, cycle changes, fertility signal and contraception interactions, perimenopause and menopause weight physiology, and the fact that the pregnancy answer is always "not while trying, talk to your clinician".

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