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Debra Waterhouse says in her book Outsmarting the Midlife Fat Cell that perimenopausal women gain weight around their torsos (back, ribs, abdomen) because those estrogen-producing fat cells in there go nutso producing more estrogen when your hormone levels start dropping off. However, she also says (as does most of the anecdotal experience I've heard) that you will gain a little weight if you go on the pill. This does not make sense to me. If you go on the pill, that is putting extra hormones IN your body, right? It seems like that would increase your hormone level, which SHOULD make those little estrogen-producing fat cells happy to go back to sleep. Why doesn't it work that way?
AND, can someone tell me how the pill works? It can't just simulate a regular cycle, right? --because then how would it prevent pregnancy? Does it have more estrogen or less or more progesterone or less or WHAT? What is it that makes the pill work?
Thanks for any info! I was supposed to see my doc's nurse practitioner (I WAY prefer her to the doc himself, LOL!!) on Aug 3 for a pap and a perimenopause discussion but my period started (well gee, you can hardly plan around it anymore it is so FLAKY AND IRREGULAR, ahem, but that is another story of course). So anyway, I'm going to see her again later this month. Unless my period decides to be 10 days early instead of 10 days late. . . .
AND, can someone tell me how the pill works? It can't just simulate a regular cycle, right? --because then how would it prevent pregnancy? Does it have more estrogen or less or more progesterone or less or WHAT? What is it that makes the pill work?
Thanks for any info! I was supposed to see my doc's nurse practitioner (I WAY prefer her to the doc himself, LOL!!) on Aug 3 for a pap and a perimenopause discussion but my period started (well gee, you can hardly plan around it anymore it is so FLAKY AND IRREGULAR, ahem, but that is another story of course). So anyway, I'm going to see her again later this month. Unless my period decides to be 10 days early instead of 10 days late. . . .