澳大利亚唯一采用自然疗法配方并经过认证的有机护肤品
July 2026, Day 13
Lying in bed at 3am, desperate for sleep for come over me, is not how I expected to be spending my Thursday nights. But this is how it seems to be at 45. I’m hot, I’ve taken Panadol about 3 hours earlier to no avail, and I’m hearing every animal noise outside my window (which on other nights I would have slept through). I hate this.
For the past 3 years I have been navigating perimenopause. I’ve been down, I started taking Prometrium and climbed back to some sort of normality, and now I’m on the roller coaster of good days and bad days.
Today, after approximately 4 hours sleep, I’m oh so tired. Thankfully its school holidays and I have a valid excuse to start the day slowly. By mid-morning I rally my energy towards the shower, brush my teeth and drag myself to my office. This is not how I imagined my days to be.
I miss my energy, my enthusiasm, my ability to sleep through the night.
But I keep being told “embrace this time”, “go with the flow”, “listen to your body”. Truth be told, I really don’t want to. I miss ‘me’. I miss the old me.
Instead of looking for upcoming trail running races I find myself googling things like ‘I'm in perimenopause. Why is my sleep the worst around day 12 of my cycle?’.
I’m a Naturopath. I know stuff. THIS I know nothing about. There is nothing in my textbook about perimenopause and how it’s a hellhole for 5-10 years of your life in which you’re forced to self-navigate with nary a map.
Given that all medical help seems to align with “you’ll figure this out”, I’ll continue my experimental HRT journey and consider myself a guinea pig. Will tonight’s choice be – take a Prometrium a day earlier in my cycle than I should (will that even matter at this point in time?), take a Prometrium and start back on the Estrogel again (I stopped it a couple of months ago as it was giving me headaches), or suffer through another night. Decisions, decisions.
Oh, and did I mention I started testosterone a few weeks ago? Is this why I can’t sleep or is it the other hormones. Fucked if I know.
When my skin looks and feels good, I feel amazing. But this is not as easily achieved as I get older. The decrease of hormones available in my body in my current state of perimenopause plays a huge factor in how well my skin stays hydrated and how it looks. Progesterone and oestrogen play many roles in the skin’s health, in particular the stimulation of skin sebum (the skin’s natural oils), the production of collagen and hyaluronic acid (which keeps skin thick and plump), and the stability of the skin’s barrier (which affects skin sensitivity, amongst other things).
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