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A little surprise in your AGECRAFT After Dark feed.
This time, I’m not asking the questions. I recently joined Dr. Rachel Pope on Our Womanity to talk about what it’s actually like to navigate perimenopause when the healthcare system isn’t particularly good at recognizing—or treating—it.
We get into my own perimenopause story (including the grocery-store hot flash that made me think I was dying), being repeatedly told I was “fine,” why regular periods don’t mean you’re not in perimenopause, and the exhausting amount of self-advocacy often required to get appropriate care.
We also talk about the bigger problem: gaps in menopause education for healthcare providers, insurance and access, the rise of private and telehealth care, and the increasingly complicated job of separating genuinely helpful resources from people trying to sell vulnerable patients another supplement, test, treatment, or doodad.
And we get into something central to my work now: validate, educate, advocate. Because people shouldn’t have to become amateur medical researchers just to get someone to listen to them.
Also? Being the guest is delightful. No research. No interview prep. No questions to write. I just showed up and talked. Highly recommend.
Originally recorded for Our Womanity with Dr. Kameelah Phillips Pope and shared here as a special AGECRAFT After Dark feed drop.
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