What I learned from early menopause

Ariel Meadow Stallings
6 min readJan 30, 2023
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Thanks to a combination of fertility treatments, endometriosis, and an exploded ovary that had to be surgically removed, I went through menopause earlier than expected. At 45, that was it for my menstrual cycle.

After a year of not bleeding, it became medically official:

I am a menopausal woman.

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Ariel Meadow Stallings

I'm a product manager at Medium, but I'm also a whole-ass person living life: author, publisher, devotional dancer, Seattleite, mom, and just a human humanning.