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"Take insomnia, for instance, she said. At midlife, women are often changing careers or jobs, and taking care of aging parents as well as growing children. Add to that economic stress or trying to juggle work and family, and you can see why 46% of women between 45 -- 54 and 48% of women 55 - 64 report a sleep problem at least a few nights a week, according to the National Sleep Foundation&amp;#039;s 2007 Sleep In America Poll. Is it hormones? Is it lifestyle? Stress? All three? &amp;quot;Insomnia is complicated,&amp;quot; said my doctor. &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;m not always sure it&amp;#039;s due to perimenopause.&amp;quot; As for night sweats, she thinks they&amp;#039;re different than hot flashes. She said it&amp;#039;s not all that uncommon for women in their 30s to get them around the time of their periods, when estrogen plummets. Somehow, I found that reassuring. And her take on menopause? &amp;quot;Well, it&amp;#039;s kind of a fluid line,&amp;quot; she said. And sort of an artificial one that we designate 12 months without a period, rather than say 9 or 10 or 11, as signaling menopause. I love my doctors. I have a female ob/gyn and primary care physician who are happy to chat and answer my questions, and I look forward to my check-ups perhaps more than other people. And I think my doctor is right. Perhaps a lot of issues are attributed to perimenopause \u2013 weight gain, insomnia, mood swings \u2013 when perhaps they&amp;#039;re just the extraordinary stresses we women face at midlife. Or perhaps it&amp;#039;s just the stress that exacerbates these symptoms? What do you think, readers? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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