December 9, 2024

Illustration: Lia Kantrowitz

Ever since I read Miranda July’s All Fours this spring, I’ve had a new category of health symptoms to worry about: possible signs of perimenopause, the sometimes-long, somewhat ambiguous lead-up to menopause. I’ll soon be 38, which will mean I can’t plausibly claim “mid-” 30s anymore and can be fairly called almost 40. Which is fine, except that I’m an anxious millennial — and I’m not alone. July’s perimenopausal protagonist is 45 years old; the oldest millennials (born in 1981) are now 43. We want to know this: When is perimenopause going to happen to us, and what will it be like? Here, we express the full range of our concerns, with input from physicians and women’s-health experts.

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By Madame Clairevoyant

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