To think perimenopause is an overused buzzword?

What an over reaction on your part.

And? So what? Because you aren't having symptoms everyone else who is having symptoms is what? Lying? Whingeing? Just needs to bloody shut up and get on with it?

Fucks sake.

I agree. I'm 45 and don't have any peri symptoms.

And perimenopausal symptoms can start a decade plus earlier. Soooo, if you get to menopause at 45, you could be experiencig symptoms from 35. Or earlier.

Menopause is different to perimenopause! 51 is the average age in which periods stop, Perimenopause is the time leading up to this when the hormone levels drop and symptoms start appearing

if you are going to post about this in a forum like this please find out the facts.

Yes, but half of all women will be younger than 51.

But if the average is 51, that means the average onset of peri will be around 41. Obviously half of all women will be younger than 41, and half will be older. That’s a lot of women in their mid/late 30s.

I was regular as clockwork to 54, then slightly irregular for a year, then just after my 55th birthday they stopped. It’s been a year next month so I’m going to get a check up at my pilates studio (they have a women’s clinic) abot then.

Apart from the above and some very short hot flushes over the same time period (they feel quite un-natural so I notice them) there’s been nothing. In terms of symptoms ‘peri-menopause’ means nothing to me, and although I’m willing to believe that this is menopause, I thought it would be much worse.

I don’t know if ‘peri’ is overused, as I only have my own experience to go by.

I mean, a clinic probably knows more that you tbh.

Do you even know the definitions of menopause and perimenopause?

It’s clearly your so called friends that are annoying you and hopefully not women who are struggling with the symptoms of perimenopause.

But you do seem very ignorant and blasé about it.

Why do you think fertility drops off a cliff in your mid30s? Oh, yes, that will be linked to hormonal changes. What do hormonal changes lead to? Oh, yes, that will be perimenopause. Women being aware of how early things can change and being able to discuss them is a good thing. Don't dismiss it just because you are fortunate enough not to be being impacted by the earliest signs.

OP must be a GP, what with their faux-baffled dismissal and rude ignorance about peri 😂 Also, do they know that baseless rage leaking out all over innocent women can be a symptom of peri...? Lol. Just saying 😉

The Victorians couldnt even look at a table leg without having a fit of the vapours about it's suggestive nature. In the 1960s girls were deeply ashamed about doing PE on their period in case anyone knew. Rape was hushed up. Unbelievable now, in 2026.

But times move on, OP. Those darn pesky women living in their own bodies (and armed with all the information and other people's openness and experiences online) are ACTUALLY ALLOWED to publicly discuss peri now. ( I know, disgusting, right?) Next they'll be wanting equal rights, abortions, the end of FGM, god it just never ends....

I suggest you shut up and go live your life. Other women's medical experiences are fortunately nothing to do with you (unless you really are a GP, in which case it's never too late for a career change, have you considered working for Reform or moving to America and finding the tradwives to hang out with or something?) 😂😂 Laughable. Beneath contempt.

I think there is sometimes a shift in your hormones and period patterns when you are in your 30s but that doesn’t mean you are in perimenopause. It seems today that everything has to have a label. You can’t have a heavy period, forget a name or feel hot without people labelling you peri menopausal. Anyone who likes a tidy and clean house is now OCD and someone who is struggling with multitasking is suddenly claiming they are ADHD. It can get a bit ridiculous.

It wouldn't. So many PP have shared info with you now on how some women will start in mid 30s and some in late 50s. There's a range. What part of that is confusing?

A classic case of "this hasn't happened to me so it cant be real". There's lots of things that haven't happened to me, but I can understand they happened to other people. I think I am getting brain fog, but I dont want to acknowledge it because it terrifies me. I've always been a thinker, and to have these moments in my early 40s where it feels like I have to wait for my brain to reboot is really scary. I pray its perimenopause!

Those of us who have had to fight tooth and nail with ignorant and poorly informed NHS GPs would beg to differ.

How ironic that you’re saying ‘how can anyone be ignorant’ 😂🙄

Totally agree with you - we're (me and friends)all a bit older but I am still fucking sick of talking about it tbh.

In general, I am glad it's being taken more seriously when it needs to be. In my day to day life? Can we please have a social occasion without constant banging on about "peri-brain" being the cause of everything that ever happens to us?!

From https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21608-perimenopause