Hello and welcome to Everything is Fine, a podcast for women over 40.

We are your hosts. I'm Kim France.

And I'm Jen Romalini.

How are you doing today?

I'm doing pretty good. I mean, I got to say my, my hormone replacement therapy, my hormone therapy,

whatever we're calling it, my prescription has changed. So it's like there's a delay. And so I've

been without hormones for like, I don't know, 10 days. And I don't know how people are out

here raw dog in menopause.

Because I'm just like, Jesus fucking Christ, like I need the adderall to like keep my brain

together. But then that gives me fucking hot flashes all night. Like I got like I got achy joints.

I have digestion issues. I'm just like,

no, no thank you. If you could take hormones and you have severe menopause symptoms, like

that is my that if nothing else comes out of this show for the years that we've been doing it,

that is my highest recommendation.

Yep. Yep. That's it. I mean, I can't, I can't do most of the hormones. You know, I won't

because of the cancer. Yes. But, you know, even hormone creams help. Yeah. I mean,

everything helps. I mean, I do bioidentical creams, you know, whatever. Like, they're supposed to be very,

very safe, like the safest form you can do. But I need it. I mean, you know, I just need it. So

that's how I am. How was your week? My week was pretty good, pretty quiet, as usual.

Although, no, that's not true. We actually had a surprisingly social week.

Yes, good. So did I. Tell me about yours. I've been thinking about this because there was an

article in the Atlantic, which I've tried to find. I saw the headline. I think it was the Atlantic

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