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What fresh hell is this? : perimenopause, menopause, other indignities, and you

Summary: "An informative, blisteringly funny, somewhat cranky and always spot-on guide to perimenopause and menopause by the award-winning sex ed/health educator and author of S.E.X"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780306874765
ISBN: 0306874768
ISBN: 9780306874758
Physical Description: print
viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Are you kidding me? A perimenopause story -- What were they thinking? -- The menopausal transition: when, why, how, where, and what the literal hell -- Ya basics -- Doctor! Doctor! (Or ARNP! Or midwife! Or TCM practitioner! Or not) -- Vasomotor chaos: hot flashes and night sweats -- Moods, feelings, mental health impacts, and trauma -- Brain! (cognitive impacts) -- Pain! (and other neurological impacts) -- Guts to gonads: digestive, urinary, and genital impacts -- Bodies, skin, and looks -- Sex and sexuality -- Other people at home, at work, on dates, and other places. How to avoid them when you can and how to deal with them when you can't (or don't want to) -- Are we there yet? -- The maybe-great beyond: postmenopausal projections.