If you've hit your mid-40s and your hips are stiff getting out of the car, your shoulders ache every morning, and something hurts in a way it never used to, you've probably had one of two responses. Either you were fobbed off entirely, or you were told it's the menopause and left there. Neither one gives you anything to do. Joint pain rises sharply through perimenopause, the mechanism is hormonal, and as of 2024 it has a proper clinical name. What to do about it is where most