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When most people think about perimenopause and menopause, issues like hot flashes, weight gain and period irregularity likely come to mind.
While those symptoms do happen, recent data found that the most commonly reported signs of perimenopause were much different than those we had come to associate with the condition. Instead, think mental health struggles and digestive problems ― just to name a few.
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The study, led by researchers from the period-tracker Flo and the Mayo Clinic, examined data from 17,494 people in 158 countries who self-reported their perimenopause symptoms over five months via a survey in the Flo app. Study authors defined perimenopause as the roughly six years before (and 12 months after) a woman’s final period, but noted perimenopause can l
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