Original writing on perimenopause, menopause, and the medicine we wish someone had told us about ten years ago.
It's not always hot flashes. Sometimes it's losing words mid-sentence, sometimes it's rage, sometimes it's just feeling not-yourself.
Drops, capsules, creams, and injections each fit a different rhythm.
A re-reading of the 2002 study that changed HRT prescribing patterns for two decades, and where the evidence sits today.
Why broken sleep cascades into everything else, and the dose adjustments that tend to fix it.
It's local, low-dose, very safe — and a generation of women have been quietly suffering without it.
Lauren on the year she finally treated her symptoms — and what she did with the rest of it.