With you through menopause
We built Lumia to support you through perimenopause and menopause. To track your symptoms, learn, find support and get to know your own body better — we’re coming soon to the App Store.
- Symptom journal Record hot flashes, sleep, mood and more in a few taps.
- Cycle tracking Follow your cycle day and periods.
- Regimen tracking Record the supplements and medicines you take, with their times, and keep your intake marks.
- Pattern insight As your records build up, see what rises and when.
- Sleep program A 7-day program and sleep diary grounded in the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I).
- Calming tools Paced breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding and a guided body scan.
The articles we prepared for you
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Perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause: what do the stages mean?
Menopause is a single moment.
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How do hormones change during this period?
In perimenopause, hormones do not decline in an orderly way.
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What is hormone therapy (HRT)?
Hormone therapy (HRT; increasingly called "menopausal hormone therapy", MHT, in the guidelines) means supplying…
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What are the types and forms of HRT?
"HRT" does not mean one medicine but a range of options that vary along several axes: which estrogen, which…
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Are there non-hormonal options?
Hormone therapy is not suitable for everyone, and not everyone wants it.
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How do I choose a doctor, and how do I go to the appointment?
The most common disappointment women describe about menopause symptoms is not the symptom itself but the…
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Hot flashes and night sweats
Hot flashes are the best-known symptom of the menopausal transition, affecting around three quarters of women.
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Why does sleep break down?
About half of women in perimenopause and early postmenopause report a sleep problem: not being able to fall…
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Anxiety and low mood: hormones, or life?
"I don't feel like myself." It is one of the sentences women in perimenopause use most often.
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Brain fog and memory: temporary or permanent?
Not being able to find a word, forgetting why you walked into a room, reading the same thing twice.
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Joint and muscle pain
Stiff hands and knees in the morning, stairs that are not what they were, shoulder pain that started for no…
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Does menopause make you put on weight?
"I eat the same, I move the same, I'm putting on weight, and it's all going to my middle." There are two…
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Vaginal dryness and urinary symptoms
Hot flashes pass with time; vaginal dryness does not — it progresses.
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Reduced sexual desire
A drop in sexual desire is common during the menopause transition and rarely has a single cause.
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Palpitations: menopause or the heart?
A heart that suddenly races, "skips" or pounds in the chest: between a quarter and half of women in the…
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Hair and skin: what changes as estrogen falls?
Skin that dries out, thins and loses its elasticity; hair that thins, with the crown opening up; a few coarse…
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Progesterone and the cycle: why does it fall first in perimenopause?
Perimenopause is usually described as "estrogen falling"; in fact one of the earliest changes is in…
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Irregular cycles: when should you worry?
Cycles are expected to change in perimenopause: first they shorten, then they lengthen, some are skipped, and…
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Bleeding after menopause
This article has a single message: any bleeding 12 months or more after your last period, even a single episode…
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Bone loss and fracture risk after menopause
Bone is lost without any symptoms.
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Heart and vascular health
Cardiovascular disease causes far more deaths in women than breast cancer does; yet women do not see it as a…
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FSH and estradiol: what blood tests do and don't tell you
"Let me have a hormone test and find out whether I'm in menopause." It sounds sensible, but it conflicts with…
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