Vim & Vigor - Fall 2012 - Gwinnett Medical Center - (Page 43)

Weather “What’s wrong with me? Am I going crazy?” At 43, Magnolia Miller couldn’t help but ask these questions as she faced mounting changes that proved something strange was happening to her. The only way the stay-at-home mother of three knew how to cope was to pencil in the words “hell week” across her calendar on that dreaded week before her menstrual cycle. Like clockwork, she was hit by “crazy, insane mood swings, heart palpitations and vertigo, and deep, debilitating bouts of depression.” Alert If perimenopause is sending signals that your body is changing, get ready to ride out the storm Then the storm cleared as abruptly as it had arrived, “and I’d feel normal again,” she says. “It was just insane.” Like so many women in the prime of their lives, Miller was too busy with life’s responsibilities to pay attention to perimenopause’s ﬁrst signals. “Here I was, right in the middle of the age range when women start going through perimenopause, and yet I didn’t put two and two together at ﬁrst,” she recalls. With perimenopause—that transitional phase before periods end for good—in every woman’s forecast, it’s time to decode the signals and discover how they can interrupt day-to-day life, along with exploring practical strategies for weathering the storm. Vim & Vigor · FAL L 2012 PHOTOGRAPHY BY CORBIS BY LORI K. BAKER 43

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Fall 2012 - Gwinnett Medical Center

Vim & Vigor - Fall 2012 - Gwinnett Medical Center
Contents
Phil’s Feature
Good Times for a Good Cause
Warm Fuzzies
30 Days to Better Sleep
I Can’t Ask My Doctor That!
He Said, She Said
Hold On to Your Health
Still A Screening Star
Your Joints: An Owner’s Manual
Weighing Your Options
No Greater Gift
Weather Alert
Virtual Health
PrimeTime Health
From the Heart
Putting Everything in Place
Out of the White Coat
Transforming Healthcare

Vim & Vigor - Fall 2012 - Gwinnett Medical Center