When did perimenopause become so popular?

Why is there never any discussion about the number of women who have few symptoms of the menopause or whose symptoms were a far fewer and less severe than all the other minor causes for ill health that beset us.

Women are being brought up to think that all kinds of terrible things will beset them. For a significant proportion of women that is true, but for many women symptoms are less severe.

The full picture needs to be shown.

It is called bringing awareness

Calling a generation of women snowflakes for highlighting a very important and underestated phase is an insult

If men had to go through it, it would be studied, managed at doctor's visits and given medical treatments to make it more humane

Daddima

I seem to have heard ( and read) so many people sharing their experiences of this. They’re usually describing things I would have put down to menopause in the ‘olden days’. When did it become separate from actual menopause?

This article will explain it for you.
Like many women who are informed I wish it had been spoken about and recognised when I started my perimenopause.

Thankfully research into HRT is proving that it can help protect against ageing diseases like osteoporosis and dementia. Well done to those women currently using it and thus contributing to the long term analysis of it's benefits.

I waited for involutional melancholia but that seems to be out of fashion!

I do not think it makes these women snowflakes in fact I think it makes them heroines.

Well done them for making a noise about a condition most women will experience and not putting up with it in silence 👏👏👏

Agreed.

It used to be called climacteric then pre-menopause. Peri-menopause dates from the 1960s.

Climacteric, pre-menopause and peri-menopause all relate to the stages where the ovaries begin to release fewer eggs and produce less oestrogen and progesterone, irregularities of the menstrual cycle and various other physical and mental effects such as hot flushes, night sweats, changes in mood or memory etc.

Menopause is a single point - defined as when a woman hasn’t menstruated for a full year.

Women saying they go through the menopause to include the whole time they have symptoms is inaccurate.

They are being literal/accurate - they are talking about all the symptoms that many (most?) women suffer in the years before their periods finally stop. It is now known that a lot can get done at that stage to improve their health notbonlynin that moment, but going forward too.

I don't think that makes them any more 'snowfkakes' than we older people are for seeking help to deal with ailments that our predecessors would have had no choice other than to grin and bear.

Davina McCall & Co have made anything to do with the menopause fashionable.
It's the way younger generations are these days. I'm not generalising but they aren't called the Snowflake generation for nothing.