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The Perimenopause Survival Guide

Make Sense of Your Symptoms and Build Your Personalised Treatment Plan

Are you experiencing extreme fatigue? Brain fog? Sudden anxiety? Heavy bleeding? Low libido? It's not you – it's perimenopause – and this cutting-edge resource from Dr Heather Hirsch is your one-stop guide to surviving and thriving.

Perimenopause – the period of time during which a woman transitions to, but is not yet in, menopause – can be one of the biggest changes of a woman’s adult life, marked by massive hormonal shifts. Troubled by symptoms like hot flushes, back pain, anxiety, brain fog – to name a few – and without any clear guidance from their GP about why, many women are left to navigate this overwhelming season of life on their own. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

The Perimenopause Survival Guide is the ultimate resource for understanding what's happening within your body, so you can make informed decisions about how best to address your symptoms. Written by Dr Heather Hirsch, a certified menopausal medicine doctor, this crucial guide demystifies your symptoms, outlines how to treat them and explains why doing so is important for your health today and in the years to come.

You’ll also learn how to better advocate for yourself with your doctor so you can access the right pathway of care for you. The Perimenopause Survival Guide will set you up for an easier menopause journey, so you can take back your health and feel like yourself again.

The Perimenopause Survival Guide by Dr Heather Hirsch is a compassionate, science-backed roadmap for women over 35 who feel blindsided by shifting hormones and unexplained symptoms. With expert insight and real-world strategies, this essential guide empowers readers to understand their bodies, take charge of their health, and finally feel like themselves again.

Tamsen Fadal, New York Times Bestselling author of How to Menopause and host of The Tamsen Show podcast

About Heather Hirsch

Dr Heather Hirsch’s personal work focuses on menopausal hormone therapy, perimenopause, breast cancer survivorship, and other conditions common to women in midlife. She is an active and contributing member of the North American Menopause Society, and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. She’s former faculty at Harvard Medical School.
Details
  • Imprint: Vermilion
  • ISBN: 9781785045790
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Price: £18.99
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