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"Though I&amp;#039;m used to feeling suddenly chilled these days, yesterday I just couldn&amp;#039;t get warm. I bundled up and sat in the sun and still felt cold. Usually layering clothing is enough to trip my faulty thermostat so that I immediately break into a sweat. Not this time. I simply couldn&amp;#039;t warm up. Then, while sitting at the computer, I started to feel woozy. OK. I thought, another symptom of perimenopause. I sometimes have attacks of vertigo, but this felt different. I had an article due, so thought I&amp;#039;d push through, but after 26 minutes (I was trying to work for 30 minutes straight), I had to lie down. What&amp;#039;s up, I wondered? And so it went yesterday. I&amp;#039;d get up and try to work \u2013 I&amp;#039;ve never missed a writing deadline, and wasn&amp;#039;t going to start \u2013 but after 15 minutes, I&amp;#039;d have to lie down. Then I felt nauseous, which again, sometimes happens particularly after hot flashes, but this nausea didn&amp;#039;t fluctuate. Nor did my temperature. Finally, I realized that what I was feeling had nothing to do with perimenopause: I was sick. Though I&amp;#039;ve often mused that some of the symptoms of fluctuating hormones are akin to illness, now I know differently. Hot flashes come and go; even mood swings are variable; sickness is not. Or at least not immediately. Call me a slow learner for not putting two and two together and figuring out I was coming down with some kind of spring flu. But that&amp;#039;s nothing compared to the months or perhaps a year that it took to figure out I was in a stage of life called perimenopause. Those signs were written in a language I couldn&amp;#039;t read at first. And now that I can, I tend to see those signs everywhere \u2013 even where they shouldn&amp;#039;t be. As the old saw goes, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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