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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
perimenopause .
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Examples
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You are perimenopausal from the time from when you first start having variation in your menstrual cycle length to one year after the last menses.
Menopause Defined aka TBTAM 2008
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As one who has endured my share of perimenopausal night sweats and hot flashes, I'd say let's get moving on those studies, please.
Hot flashes, night sweats may reduce breast cancer risk Jennifer LaRue Huget 2011
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Some patients during the perimenopausal period register a high level of estrogen one month, but the next, their levels will plummet, Noland said.
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We may even worry that we're experiencing the early stages of Alzheimer's; however, the majority of perimenopausal memory loss problems are natural.
Maddisen K. Krown: Perimenopause and the Fog of Forgetting Maddisen K. Krown 2011
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"That's where I got into the perimenopausal stuff."
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Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle surveyed 1,437 post-menopausal women, 988 of whom had been previously diagnosed with breast cancer, about perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms including hot flushes or flashes, night sweats and insomnia, vaginal dryness, irregular or heavy menstrual bleeding, depression and anxiety.
Hot flashes, night sweats may reduce breast cancer risk Jennifer LaRue Huget 2011
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Withoutarulebook - See this blog post below for distinction between perimenopause and menopause - but if one is still menstruating and having menopausal symptoms with no other cause found, she is probably perimenopausal.
Oprah's Talking Hormones aka TBTAM 2009
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"That's where I got into the perimenopausal stuff."
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I have never written to an "agony aunt" before, but we are about the same age and I was hoping you could give me advice about how to stay positive when depressed, very hormonal and perimenopausal.
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Some patients during the perimenopausal period register a high level of estrogen one month, but the next, their levels will plummet, Noland said.
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