Is it perimenopause? Decode your symptoms in five minutes.
Twenty symptoms, sorted into the hormone pattern most likely behind them — by a NIMH-registered Medical Herbalist. Then: what to look at first, what to do this week, and which blood tests to ask for.
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Nobody tells you these are the same thing. They usually are.
Waking at 3am. A cycle that's suddenly 24 days. Rage you can't explain and a brain that's lost its words.
Perimenopause isn't one hormone dropping. It's several going out of sync at different speeds — progesterone falling, oestrogen swinging, cortisol filling the gap. That's why it feels random. It isn't.
The Decoder shows you the pattern, so you stop guessing.
What's inside
Four named patterns
The Overflow, The Fade, The Wire, The Slow — and which one your symptoms point to, plus the one running underneath.
What's actually shifting
The hormone story behind your pattern in plain English — what I see in clinic, not a textbook.
Three things this week
Specific, doable changes matched to your pattern. Not 'reduce stress'.
The bloods to ask for
The three tests I ask every perimenopausal client to get — perimenopause hides behind all of them.
Who it's for
Women 38–52 whose symptoms have changed in the last year.
Anyone who's been told they're 'too young' or 'just stressed'.
Not for you if you want a diagnosis — this is a pattern, not a verdict. Your GP does the ruling out; I do the working with.
Marie Mulcahy MNIMH
NIMH-registered Medical Herbalist — not a coach, not an influencer. Over a decade in clinical practice, with in-person clinics in Clitheroe and Darwen and online consultations UK-wide. I see the early-perimenopause pattern in clinic every week — and it's the most responsive one to work with.
Ready?
Twenty symptoms, sorted into the hormone pattern most likely behind them — by a NIMH-registered Medical Herbalist. Then: what to look at first, what to do this week, and which blood tests to ask for.
Start decodingTakes five minutes. Your full reading unlocks with your email. Four short follow-up emails, unsubscribe anytime.
Educational, not a diagnosis. Always check new or severe symptoms — particularly palpitations, very heavy bleeding, or bleeding after 12 months without a period — with your GP.