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Too Young for Perimenopause? How It’s Really Diagnosed
She is 42. Her periods now come a week early, then late. She wakes at 3 a.m. soaked, heart pounding. She snaps at her kids, then cries in the car. In my office she completes a Greene Climacteric Scale and scores 31 out of 63. Then she tells me what her last doctor said: “You’re too young for perimenopause.” I hear a version of this story almost every week. (The woman above is a composite of many patients.) She is not imagining her symptoms, and her doctor was not trying to dismiss her. Most of us were trained to think of menopause as something that happens around 51. Far fewer of us were taught how long and how variable the road to it can be.