Abstract
In this article, I chronicle my experience with a gradually worsening mysterious and debilitating chronic illness. Through chance, I learned I was experiencing perimenopause. I challenge the silence around perimenopause and menopause, and also the mores that dictate how scientific writing discusses conditions for which robust published evidence often does not exist (typically conditions affecting women).
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Laidlaw, Tess
(2025)
"An invisible but obvious ailment,"
Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol10/iss1/9
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