HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE STORIES

47 Pennsylvania Newton's first law of motion. It was the first thought that went through my mind when I was taken by Lyft - and then by wheelchair - into the hospital ER on a day in mid-October 2018. After months of increasingly concerning symptoms - the final of which rendered me barely able to walk - I awoke in total body pain from my neck down to the soles of my feet. As Newton's First Law clearly states, a body in motion tends to stay in motion unless an external force acts upon it. For...

OR 47 I think the thing for me is I feel overwhelmed with information, but not the right information, if that even makes sense. I feel like I am so grateful that there are conversations and that perimenopause and menopause is in the spotlight, but I also feel so aggressively sold to and everything. And so I feel like I need a trusted resource. I feel like lost in the woods, right? So that's one thing I'm coming up against is like this feeling of like, if there's like a supplement for...

West Coast 47 I'm still in perimenopause and have been for six years. But like the minute I turned 40, it was about immunity. Like my immunity tanked and I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's. I think my body just couldn't handle stress as well as I wasn't as resilient as I was before. I feel like for the first five years I was getting to know my new body and what I could tolerate and what I couldn't. I'm 47 on Friday, but since I turned 45, it's just been discernment. Like, what do I want in my...