About Me

My Peri Menopause Journey 

I am currently in my early 50’s and very Peri Menopausal. 

At age 23 after having my son, things changed. My flow was a little heavier and lasted 4-5 days. At age 38 I started noticing other changes but at that time I chalked it up to “The Change of Life” because they seemed normal to have in my family. My mother and two sisters all started “The Change” around age 40 and it lasted for about 10 years before their cycle ended.

At age 41-42 I had the Cold Knife Cone Procedure done to remove Precancerous/Cancerous cells. Not long after that, when I was around 48 I took a break from coaching and went over the road with my husband. We teamed together in driving a tractor trailer for a company. About a year into it, when I was around 49, the flow changed drastically and made my life a nightmare. Along with that changing, my symptoms increased to Heavy periods lasting anywhere from 7-14 days which caused me to have a huge deficiency in iron where I needed to have blood transfusions but didn’t because I didn’t have health insurance at the time and therefore I had to take iron supplements with orange juice 3x a day until my iron got to the levels it need to be. Another symptom I had was fatigue. I was tired all the time, making my task as a truck driver very difficult to nearly impossible and unsafe. Therefore, I ate a lot of sugar to try and stay awake. 

Bladder changes was another one that made it difficult. I would drink a cup of tea and have to go to the bathroom within 5-20 minutes of consuming it and there wasn’t always a bathroom who can accommodate a tractor trailer or we were under time constraints which also made it difficult. 

I was on edge and mood swings would change within a flash.  
Sleep changes didn’t allow me to get the proper sleep that I needed. My breast was so tender that even my bra would hurt. I would wake up with headache nearly every day and if I didn’t have one when I woke up you can be sure that I would have one later on that day. I was in a brain fog often and poor memory. I had a lot of water retention and always felt uncomfortable inside my skin. Most of my life I was always slender so carrying around this weight made me unrecognizable to me. I would avoid looking in the mirror and  forbade anyone from taking my picture. 

I can remember a handful of times standing in line at the grocery store feeling fine one minute and shaky the next and not feeling right and all of a sudden swish I was soaked from head to toe. I still need to sleep with the fan on even in winter, the touch of my poor husband’s skin is like he just stepped out of the freezer. I would look at my husband and just like we first met I still get butterflies but I had absolutely no sexual desire at all. I am experiencing vaginal dryness which makes it tough during intercourse. My skin, especially my scalp itched so bad. 

I was always confident and sure of myself, not conceited, just comfortable with who I was. When my husband and I first met, we shared intimacy all the time. We would make love 2-3 times a day. We would kiss and show affection all the time. I enjoyed being intimate with him. I use to feel so sexy, so confident and sure of myself. That is until one morning I woke up and it was gone, it was like someone had stolen it all away. I was devastated and started questioning “who am I”. I didn’t recognize myself anymore. I started to evaluate my past present and future. 

All of this knowledge that I have now if I had only had it when I was 20-30 years old, I would have been prepared for that very cycle of my life and this is why I am here today to help other women like me, like yourself, get back onto the healthier happier path in life through the proper foods and activities for your body type. Be sure to check out my services to see how we can work together. You can even book a call or contact me so we can schedule a chat to get to know each other. 
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