Do you have or have you ever experienced in the past 4-6 months:

PART A.

•  A feeling you are constantly racing from one task to the next?
•  Feeling wired yet tired?
•  A struggle calming down before bedtime, or a second wind that keeps you up late?
•  Difficult falling asleep or disrupted sleep?
•  A feeling of anxiety or nervousness – can’t stop worrying about things beyond your control?
•  A quickness to feel anger or rage – frequent screaming or yelling?
•  Memory lapses or feeling distracted, especially under duress?
•  Sugar cravings (“you need a little something” after each meal, usually of the chocolate variety)?
•  Increased abdominal circumference, greater than 35 inches / 89cm (the dreaded abdominal fat, or muffin top – not bloating) ?
•  Skin conditions such as eczema or thin skin (sometimes physiologically and psychologically)?
•  Bone loss (perhaps your doctor uses scarier terms, such as osteopenia or osteoporosis)?
•  High blood pressure or rapid heartbeat unrelated to those cute red shoes in the store window?
•  High blood sugar (maybe your clinician has mentioned the words prediabetes or even diabetes or insulin resistance)? Shakiness between meals, also known as blood sugar instability?
•  Indigestion, ulcers, or GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease)?
•  More difficulty recovering from physical injury than in the past?
•   Unexplained pink to purple stretch marks on your belly or back?
•  Irregular menstrual cycles?
•  Decreasing fertility?

Part B.

•  Fatigue or burnout (you use caffeine to bolster your energy, or fall asleep while reading or watching a movie)?
•  Loss of stamina, particularly in the afternoon, from two to five?
•  An atypical addiction to a negative point a viewCrying jags for no particular reason?
•  Decreased problem-solving ability?
•  Feeling stressed most of the time (everything seems harder than before, and you have trouble coping)? Decreased stress tolerance?
•  Insomnia o difficulty staying asleep, especially between one and four in the morning?
•  Low blood pressure (not always a good thing, since your blood pressure determines the correct amount of oxygen to send through your body, especially into your brain)?
•  Postural hypotension (you stand up from lying down and feel dizzy)?
•  Difficult fighting infection (you catch every virus you meet, particularly respiratory)? Difficulty recovering from illness or surgery or healing wounds?
•  Asthma? Bronchitis? Chronic cough? Allergies?
•  Low or unstable blood sugar?
•  Salt cravings?
•  Excess seating?
•  Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea? Or loose stool altering with constipation?
•  Muscle weakness, especially around the knee? Muscle or joint pain?
•  Hemorrhoids or varicose veins?
•  Your blood seems to pool easily, or your skin bruises easily?
•  A thyroid problem that’s been treated, you feel better, and suddenly you feel palpitations or have rapid or irregular heartbeats (a sign of low cortisol / low thyroid combo)?

PART C.

•  Agittion or PMS
•  Cyclical headaches (particularly menstrual or hormonal maigraines)?
•  Painful and/or swollen breasts?
•  Irregular menstrual cycles, or cycles becoming more frequent as you age?
•  Heavy or painful periods (heavy: going through a superpad or tampon every two hours or less; painful: you can’t function without ibuprofen)?
•  Bloating particularly in the ankles and belly, and/or fluid retention (in other words, you gain 3 to 5 pounds /1,5-2.5kg or more before your period)?
•  Ovarian cysts, breast cysts, or endometrial cysts (polyps)?
•  Easily disrupted sleep?
•  Itchy or restless legs, especially at night?
•  Increased clumsiness or poor coordination?
•  Infertility or subfertility (You’ve been trying hard to conceive but haven’t hit the official twelve-month mark of no conception – six months if you are thirty-five or older)?
•  Miscarriage in the first trimester?

PART D.

•  Bloating, puffiness, or water retention?
•  Abnormal PAP smears?
•  Heavy bleeding or postmenopausal bleeding?
•  Rapid weight gain, particularly in the hips and butt?
•  Increased bra size or breast tenderness?
•  Fibroids?
•  Endometriosis, or painful periods? (Endometriosis is when pieces of the uterine lining grow outside of the uterine cavity, such as on the ovaries or bowel, and cause painful periods.)
•  Mood swings, PMS, depression or just irritability?
•  Weepiness, sometimes over the most ridiculous things?
•  Mini breakdowns? Anxiety?
•  Migraines or other headaches?
•  Insomnia?
•  Brain fog?
•  A red flush on your face (or diagnosis of rosacea)?
•  Gallbladder problems (or removal)?

PART E.

•  Poor memory (you walk into a room to do something, then wonder what it was, or draw a blank midsentence)?
•  Emotional fragility, especially compared with how you felt ten years ago?
•  Depression, perhaps with anxiety or lethargy (or, more commonly, dysthymia: low-grade depression that lasts more than two weeks)?
•  Wrinkles (your favorite skin cream no longer works miracles)?
•  Night sweats or hot flashes?
•  Trouble sleeping, waking up in the middle of the night?
•  A leaky or overactive bladder?
•  Bladder infections?
•  Drropy breasts, or breasts lessening in volume?
•  Sun damage more obvious, even glaring, on your chest, face, and shoulders?
•  Achy joints (you feel positively geriatric at times?)
•  Recent injuries, particularly to wrists, shoulders, lower back, or knees?
•  Loss of interest in exercise?
•  Bone loss?
•  Vaginal dryness, irritation, or loss of feeling (as if there were layers of blankets between you and the now-elusive toe-curling orgasm)?
•  Lack of juiciness elsewhere (dry eyes, dry skin, dry clitoris)?
•  Low libido (it’s been dwindling for a while, and now you realize it’s half or less than what it used to be)?
•  Painful sexual intercourse?

PART F

•  Excess hair on your face?
•  Acne?
•  Greasy skin and/or hair?
•  Thinning head hair (which makes you question the justice of it all if you are also experiencing hair growth elsewhere)?
•  Discoloration of your armpits (darker and thicker than your normal skin)?
•  Skin tags, especially on your neck and upper torso (Skin tags are small, flesh-colored growths on the skin surface, usually a few millimeters in size, and smooth. They are usually noncancerous and develop from friction, such as around bra straps. They do not change or grow over time.)
•  Hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia and/or unstable blood sugar?
•  Reactivity and/or irritability, or excessively aggressive or authoritarian episodes (also known as ‘roid rage)?
•  Depression? Anxiety?
•  Menstrual cycles occurring more than every thirty-five days?
•  Ovarian cysts?
•  Midcycle pain?
•  Infertility or subfertility
•  Polycystic Ovary Syndrome?

PART G.

•  Hair loss, including of the outer third of your eyebrows and/or eyelashes?
•  Dry skin?
•  Dry, straw like hair that tangles easily?
•  Thin, brittle fingernails?
•  Fluid retention or swollen ankles?
•  An additional few pounds/kilos, or 20pounds/10kg that you just can’t lose.
•  High cholesterol?
•  Bowel movements less often than once a day, or you feel you don’t completely evacuate?
•  Recurrent headaches?
•  Decreased sweating?
•  Muscle or joint aches or poor muscle tone (you became an old lady overnight)?
•  Tingling in your hands or feet?
•  Cold hands and feet? Cold intolerance? Heat intolerance?
•  Sensitivity to cold (you shiver more easily than others and are always wearing layers)?
•  Slow speech, perhaps with a hoarse of halting voice?
•  A slow heart rate, or bradycardia (fewer than 60 beats per minute, and not because you are an elite athlete)?
•  Lethargy (you feel like you’re moving through molasses)?
•  Fatigue, particularly in the morning?
•  Slow brain, slow thoughts? Difficulty concentrating?
•  Sluggish reflexes, diminished reaction time, even a bit of apathy?
•  Low sex drive, and you’re not sure why?
•  Depression or moodiness (the word is not as rosy as it used to be)?
•  A prescription for the latest antidepressant but you‘re still not feeling like yourself?
•  Heavy periods or other menstrual problems?
•  Infertility or miscarriage? Preterm birth?
•  An enlarged thyroid/goiter? Difficulty swallowing? Enlarged tongue?
•  A family history of thyroid problems?

Answer yes = 1 point

Answer no = 0 point.

Add up your points per group and pls send the sums to [email protected]

Talk to you soon,

hugs,

Kata