Peri-Menopause
Supporting a positive transition from periods to menopause, whilst treating hot flushes, insomnia, anxiety and more.
Peri-menopause is the decade or so when women transition naturally to the next stage of life. If managed with care, it can progress smoothly and relatively easily.
However, if it doesn’t go smoothly, it can be awful – a truly terrible version of the PMS experienced in a woman’s 20’s and 30’s. Women can experience anxiety, insomnia and palpitations; heavy periods, mood swings and hot flushes; or spotting, low back pain and vaginal dryness.
I feel like a new woman tonight! Thank you!
Amanda
The symptoms often feel familiar, and clearly hormonal in origin, but far more extreme – for example, what used to be a mild, cyclical urinary tract infection can become far more severe and completely unresponsive to a woman’s usual tried and tested remedies.
And at the same time, the picture can be quite confusing, with symptoms that are not clearly menopausal; like nausea and diarrhoea, joint pains, memory loss, brain fog, dry eyes and sensitive skin.
Given this is a time in life when women have experience and wisdom to share, steady hormones are hugely helpful, as they step into their power to take on leadership roles or strike a new path, and as parenting shifts to guiding young adults and caring for their elders.
I have long loved being able to help here. Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine are well placed to help women rediscover a sense of wellbeing, and reconnect in ways that allow them to feel empowered.
Treatment is always bespoke and tailored to you, as there is no one-way to transition through menopause, and so no one-suits-all treatment. And I will always help you discover meaningful, practical ways to maintain your good health and hormone balance beyond your course of treatment.
Acupuncture has helped me find my unique path of well-being both physically and emotionally. To rebalance, reset, resolve and repair, and re-energise. Ali holds a fountain of knowledge and with her truly empathic approach to her patients we are the lucky receivers. I’d say Ali has flicked a switch, I feel so good, the only regret I have is I wish I’d started seeing her earlier than I did.
Lise
Dear Ali, I had to text and thank you! THANK YOU!! I have had the best sleep in months…and feel quite well!
L.W.