From The Hot Mess Handbook
The Toolkit, ready to print.
Every worksheet from Part Five of the book, laid out clean on letter-size pages: the symptom log, the priority grid, the exam-room script, the red-flags table, the medication log, the partner cheat sheet, and the quick reference. Fill it in. Bring it with you. Let it do the talking at minute eleven of a fifteen-minute visit.
Free · 11 pages · PDF · No account, just an email so we can send it and tell you when the science moves.What's inside
Seven pages that go to the appointment with you.
Your Symptom Log
Your pattern, written down. The single most powerful thing you can bring to a visit.
Symptom Priority Grid
When everything is wrong at once, decide where to start.
What to Say in the Exam Room
Your opening line, five questions that cut to it, and what to say if you're dismissed.
Red Flags
How to tell whether this provider has this knowledge. And what to look for instead.
Medication & Symptom Response Log
One change at a time, tracked honestly, ready for your follow-up.
The Partner Conversation
The shape of the talk, with the lines that work.
Quick Reference
Ten things to remember, five things to rule out, treatment options at a glance.
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Finding care
The Toolkit gets you ready. Chapter 19 gets you in the right room.
If you're in Louisiana
The Menopause Clinic is a specialty practice that does one thing: perimenopause and menopause care, by clinicians who were trained in it. We see patients across Louisiana by telehealth and in person in New Orleans, by appointment.
It should feel like medicine, not shopping. How it works and what it costs are on the site, in plain numbers.
How The Menopause Clinic worksIf you're somewhere else
Licensing means we can't be your clinicians yet. These are the places we'd look ourselves:
- The Menopause Society's practitioner directory: search by ZIP code for clinicians with the MSCP credential.
- Dedicated menopause and midlife-women's-health practices, including telehealth. Vet them like a clinic: licensed in your state, a real history taken, follow-up offered, pharmacy-dispensed medication, willing to tell you no.
- Word of mouth. The woman who found someone good is usually glad to share the name.
Told us your state on the form? You'll hear from us if that changes.
The book
Don't have the Handbook yet?
The Hot Mess Handbook: The Perimenopause Guide You Should Have Had Years Ago is the full explanation behind every page of the Toolkit: what is happening to you, why nobody told you, what actually helps, and how to find someone who knows this. Paperback and Kindle.
Get the bookThe Toolkit and the book are for education and general information. They are not medical advice and don't replace care from a clinician who knows your history. Copy the worksheets freely for your own appointments.