Perimenopause and menopause
1,069 Reddit comments across 8 threads in r/Perimenopause and r/Menopause, one thread alone at 589 comments
- The highest-voted symptom (591 upvotes, verbatim)
- “The sudden RAGE. I'm generally a content and peaceful person..I meditate. I'm good at self regulating. But all of a sudden I got so RAGEY.”
- The buying anxiety, in the thread title
- “What perimenopause symptom made you think you were losing your mind before you realized it was hormones?” (783 upvotes). Runner-up: “Insane, unrelenting and unmanageable anxiety that came literally out of no where and caused me to think i was actually dying.” (340)
- The objection doctors created
- “Now, I'm 46 and my doctor still ignore the full symptom picture and try to treat one thing at a time.” and “as soon as you mention hot flashes they start listening… without hot flashes, you might as well be talking to a wall.”
- What they want
- A name for it. “It's like you read my mind and wrote all my symptoms in this post!!” (48). And to feel like themselves again, one of the most typed phrases in Adlicio.
Lead with rage or brain fog, not hot flashes. “You are not losing your mind. You are losing estrogen.” Sound like the sub, not like a leaflet; these buyers were already dismissed by an authority.