Perimenopause Quotes

“Estrogen deficient woman are nothing but the walking dead.”
― Marie Hoag MBA

“Perimenopausal women don't make eye contact, don't want to be touched, they slouch, they scuff, and avoid any social interaction if possible.”
― Marie Hoag MBA

“It's time to stop grouping up and complaining about all our estrogen deficient symptoms and demand real answers and plenty of estrogen.”
― Marie Hoag MBA

“If I hear of one more article sourcing the WHI as the standard by which hormone replacement therapy advice should be generated, I think I'm going to puke.”
― Marie Hoag MBA

“Citing the WHI for Hormone Replacement Therapy standards equates with attending the Flat Earth Society Conference and listening to people try to prove the earth is flat.”
― Marie Hoag MBA

“Stop exhuming the women's health initiative for which doctors prescribe hormones. The WHI for HRT standards is a dead and irrelevant paradigm to modern HRT that needs to be buried.”
― Marie Hoag MBA

“The women's health initiative standards for HRT is nothing but an embarrassment to all physicians, and I'm not sure why they have not retracted all the statements that came out of that joke of a study.”
― Marie Hoag MBA

“Estrogen deficient women are the walking dead.”
― Marie Hoag MBA

“The goal is to get your estrogen where it should be so you don’t have to hang out in social support groups that do nothing but chew the cud on how miserable they are without estrogen.”
― Marie Hoäg, MBA

“Sometimes the menopause is a nuisance, but on the whole I quite like it. I feel like I'm being 'rounded off.' I just like the feeling of completing a whole area of my life. And then - well, who knows what I might do next? - Benni, 50”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“I drove through red traffic lights once. I thought red meant 'go', which was dreadful because I know red means 'stop'. - Nora, 50”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“I’ve seen estrogen make princesses out of witches.”
― Marie Hoäg MBA

“Estrogen decides everything.”
― Marie Hoäg, MBA

“You might be chatting sociably with friends, and suddenly you notice that they're all flapping their hands at at their faces. You're all sitting there like a bunch of chickens - all flapping away. You hardly notice that you're doing it because it's such a habit. All clutching at your clothes to try and flap some cool air in, And all of you are bright red in the face." Sally, 58”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“The very best way that you can help yourself is to develop and sustain a positive attitude. The way you think and feel about everything will make all the difference to your experience.”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“I went to work wearing a suit and odd shoes. One was blue and one was black. I can't believe I did that. I'm so particular - I would never have done that before. - Les, 48”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“I made a mental note of where I'd parked the car, but when I came out of the precinctI couldn't remember where it was. I pushed a full shopping trolley through acres of busy car park to try to find it, and after 20 minutes I was nearly in tears. Eventually I just stumbled across it, but I don't remember parking there at all. I felt so stupid. What's even worse was that a few weeks later I did exactly the same thing. - Fiona, 56”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“Sometimes I feel as if there's too much information going into too small a brain. - Paula, 56”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“When my daughter was 10 she pointed at my face and said accusingly, 'Er - yuk! Witches have those.' I rushed to the mirror. There, sprouting determinedly from a mole on my chin, was a single sprout of hair. I was 45. Caroline, 53”
― Caroline Carr, Menopause: The Guide for Real Women

“Messages we get about menopause more often tell us we must keep ourselves from much of what we want and need in this time. It's easy to get the idea that life in and after menopause is going to be little, dreary rituals of desperate maintenance and exacting control over food, exercise, the shape and size of our bodies, our skin, our intimate relationships, our sexuality, our leisure, our moods, robbing us of what pleasure we might have found in these things before.”
― Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You