Is the surge in peri menopausal women a legacy of the pandemic?

[Mairzydotes]

Now, I don't mean that covid is to blame for people's symptoms . I'm wondering if how people analysed how their body felt during the pandemic, in case they were coming down with covid has made women aware of differences that they are attributing to peri-menopause.

For example, I remember people really noticing how they felt , like if they had aches or a headache. So women of peri-menopause age knew what their normal felt like , and are noticing when they feel different.

I think it’s more a case of it’s now something that women discuss and don’t feel they have to hide how they are feeling.

incresed discussion leads to other women having the lightbulb moment about themselves

I agree with @Sirzy
It's not a bloody bandwagon, we are just allowed to talk about it now, and professionals are learning more about women and their bodies now.

There’s more discussion around it now. I think the timing is coincidental. Although I never felt right again having CoViD (I wasn’t terribly unwell with it). It felt like a long CoViD/post viral fatigue morphed in peri-menopause. I don’t think one caused the other, just unfortunate timing. I felt like shit for a year.

Are you of a perimenopausal age OP? Maybe it is cognitive bias?

It's multi faceted - partly it's because we talk about things more, partly we analyse how we are more and want answers but also partly because people expect to have a magic bullet and feel 100% now. (And also I do think we moan more now) I'm 6 months since I had a period so fingers crossed I'm on the home straight now

I've been oblivious to menopause and perimenopause for most of my adult life but now I'm on my late 40s ans experiencing certain things I've educated myself on it and so I keep coming across others in the same life stage. I think that and the fact we talk about it more openly are the main reasons.

There has been a huge increase in publicity around it so people are just more aware that it’s a thing, Davina’s book massively raised the profile.

It's not a taboo subject anymore.

It's a bandwagon on Instagram. Any influencer between the ages of 38 and about 55 is using it as a subject to engage with followers and slip an affiliate link in.

I'm 41

Through a hobby I have many friends in their late 50s, ten years older than me. They tell me that ten years ago they only ever discussed menopause with one or two very closest friends, and with some level of shame for “not coping”. That makes me believe it’s 100% the breaking of the taboo.

The stigma is reducing, women are now speaking to each other about it

It is interesting how people do expect modern science to be able to get rid of any discomfort -in this case hrt.