Welcome To The Wheel Of Perimenopause!  

Growing up my family and I were avid Wheel Of Fortune watchers. We would watch with such excitement and anticipation trying to figure out the next letter to ask for and solve the puzzle. This deepened my problem solving ability, which has been quite useful as an eastern medicine doctor and women's health specialist in helping women navigate and improve their perimenopause journey.

While perimenopause (the time in which a woman's body prepares to stop having periods) is clearly not a game show (many of us wish it was that fun, lol), I have found it to have some similarities. This comes with my over 20 years of clinical experience supporting women using Eastern and Integrative medicine through this very important time.

I liken perimenopause to Wheel Of Fortune in that getting up each day is like taking a spin of the wheel, we just don’t know what perimenopause symptom may land before us. Could it be a period that we swore we were done with? A heavy period? A hot flash? No hot flash? An ache never experienced before? Or an ache that we haven’t had in years? Or any of the other myriad of potential symptoms? The truth is we just don’t know.

But, what we do know is that Eastern medicine has been helping women through key reproductive phases, including perimenopause and menopause for thousands of years. As a New York State licensed acupuncturist with a doctoral specialization in women's health and geriatrics, I have seen this ancient wisdom help many women decrease and or relieve their symptoms of perimenopause, feel better and help to boost their longevity.

I bring this ancient wisdom and my clinical experience to my new blog, Wheel Of Perimenopause! And while I won’t be giving away trips to Hawaii and cash prizes lol, I can say that there will be support, answers and solutions, some preset letters on the board if you will, that may be helpful to you in solving your own perimenopause puzzle, of course along with the help of your trusted and competent medical team.

Comparing perimenopause to a gameshow is by no means to reduce the seriousness of the symptoms and life events that can happen during this terrific and sometimes tumultuous time. Rather it is to draw on the similarities and provide lightness to something that can be heavy and at times unbearable, which in and of itself can be quite healing.

So stay tuned and if you are not already subscribed to the blog, click here so you can know when our next entry on the Wheel of Perimenopause will be!

Take good care.

Love being a woman, Dr. Danett (Doctor of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine)