Ever since I started peri

I've gotten ran over by a FREIGHT TRAIN

I'm serious

My life hasn't been the same

I've turned into a devious walking fart machine

So.. my kids avoid me, literally

I get DISGUSTED by everything I loved eating

My life is planned around a toilet

A DAMN TOILET.

I've cancelled 2 date nights with my husband already

There are weeks

When I'm begging the peri god

For permission to poop again

My nights have turned into nightmares

This body won't let me sleep

Even if it did

God forbid me to sleep past 3AM

I call it the 3AM club

I stopped fighting it

It's doomscrolling time

Anything perimenopause

Facebook, Reddit, X

You name it, I'm there

Weirdly enough

I feel good knowing

I'm not suffering alone

So I don't miss a damn post nor comment

Reading these peri traumas

Made me realize ONE thing

Peri stopped being about

Getting no sleep.

Losing my favorite foods.

Needing to be around a toilet.

Or any of that sh*t.

It's the fact

I'VE LITERALLY LOST EVERY BIT OF MY F*CKING SELF

NOW I'M SLOWLY LOSING

MY HUSBAND.

MY KIDS.

MY JOB.

MY LIFE.

I know what you're thinking...

Yes, I've tried EVERYTHING that supposedly worked for everyone else

Yes, it did NOTHING

Yes, sometimes it F*CKS me up even more

Just take a look at this sh*t

About getting scans done and doctors visits..

Those craps came back normal

Doctors me that it's just anxiety because that I'm not at the age of it yet.

Like what the hell?

F*ck them

They don't want to take me serious

They think I'm some crazy woman in this fantasy of pain

It was around 11pm

Scrolling r/Perimenopause in the dark again.

Then I saw a post

Posted 34 minutes ago

"Anyone else? full after three bites, can't trust a fart... all tests came back normal."

I clicked.

Yup, I could've written this myself.

She's 47.

Every symptom on her list was on mine.

The top reply

2,119 upvotes.

From a former GI nurse who'd gone through peri herself.

She said she was tired of DM-ing the same explanation to women one at a time

So she typed it out once.

I almost scrolled to the next post until

I read the connections she made between

HORMONES and the GUTs

It was something I never put together

Here's what she said..

They're the ones running the whole show down there.

They tell your belly when to squeeze food through.

When to relax.

When to let your good bacteria do their job.

When to calm your nerves down so you're not anxious for no reason at 3am.

For thirty years they did this quietly.

You never thought about it.

You just ate.

Then peri hits.

And your body stops making them steadily.

Some days you have more estrogen than a 20 year old.

Some days almost none.

Progesterone just keeps dropping.

The levels change from one day to the next

And one of the biggest jobs those hormones were doing?

Keeping your gut wall sealed tight.

So now every time they drop

The wall loosens up.

Things that were supposed to stay inside your gut start leaking through.

Food that isn't fully broken down.

Bad bacteria.

Stuff that was never supposed to touch your bloodstream.

Your body sees this

It panics and starts to attack

So your belly starts doing everything wrong at the same time.

It bloats.

It cramps.

It rejects food you've eaten your whole life.

You get anxious for no reason.

You feel full after three bites.

That was enough.

I had to put my phone down.

I need a reason to not throw my phone across the room

WHY THE FUCK HAS NO ONE TOLD ME THIS?

Every doctor I'd seen treated each of these like a separate problem.

The constipation was "IBS"

The reflux was "diet"

The bloating was "anxiety"

The food sensitivities were "maybe celiac, maybe lactose, maybe stress"

It was never eight different problems!!

It was ONE wall.

Opening and closing,

They made me spent two years thinking I had 8 things wrong with me.

I only had ONE thing wrong with me.

This was common sense

And not a single doctor in two years could explain it..

She even used an example

Which cleared it up so well for me

Think of a live band performance

And the conductor stopped doing it's job correctly

Randomly signaling

Which turns into a mess

The strings speed up.

The brass slows down.

The drums stop entirely.

The woodwinds play the wrong song.

NONE of the musicians have gone bad.

They're all still trying.

They're just following a signal that's no longer in tune.

This made so much sense

That it pissed me off

How is it even possible

That no doctors was capable of knowing this

They need to be stripped of their degree

The hormones are the problem.

But you can't fix the hormones.

They're going to keep fluctuating

That's peri

You have to make the gut

Not depend on the whacky hormones fluctuation.

Butyrate.

It seals the gut wall shut.

The same job that used to get done by estrogen..

Butyrate does it now.

But you simply can't "add" butyrate

You need to reprogram your body to make them

I frowned

How...?

You need to take a specific strand of probiotic

That gets butyrate production back online.

Spore-Based Probiotic

This will support the unpredictable gut reactions

Then she gets to the gassy part...

Estrogen also used to keep the food moving

But in peri, it slows down

Food that doesn't move, sits there.

It starts to ferments.

And fermenting food makes gas

The slowed movement of food

Inside your gut also NEEDS

Spore Based Probiotics

Once they get there,

They produce the fatty acids that get your gut moving again

I almost stopped reading...

But I've been taking probiotics..?

Bottles of them.

Aligns and Culturelles and the expensive refrigerated ones.

They NEVER did a thing...

Then I read the next line.

"Spore Based Probiotics...

It's natural state allows it to survive harsh stomach acid

Arriving fully functioning in your intestine

Meanwhile,

Regular probiotics die in your stomach acid before they ever reach the part of your gut that needs them."

I put my phone down...

I sighed..

2 whole years... of taking dead bacteria.

The peri body

Needs help breaking down food.

Enzymes.

Protease for protein,

Bromelain and papain for the rest.

They hit the food the second it lands in your stomach.

They break it down on contact.

Even if digestion slows down.

Nothing sits.

Nothing ferments.

Nothing turns into the gas that

Keeps you up at night or embarrasses you.

This clicked it all together.

All of this explained why I've been failed by so many products.

I've been doing it wrong the whole time..

Before I even finished her whole post

I was already on the hunt

Google, TikTok, Reddit

Spore-based probiotic.

Protease, bromelain, papain.

Oh god...

I'm already dreading

Having to chase down

Four different products

Maybe five.

Probably gonna be hundreds of dollars.

And guess what?

THEY MIGHT NOT EVEN WORK!

Then I came across a reddit thread

OP was reviewing every products she's tried

Goddamn, her list is longer than mine

It's unbelievable.

Then at the bottom

She linked the one she rated 10/10

Futr Gut Strip Supplement.

Holy Sh*t...

Crazy enough this product had

All four ingredient the nurse had named.

In one dissolving strip.

The f*ck?

A strip? Why?

I scrolled a little further,

"As the strip dissolves under your tongue.

It goes straight into your bloodstream.

Skips the acid entirely.

All ingredients survive.

Ready to help your belly."

But damn,

I've been ran through

By so many products

I'm already doubting it'll work

But deep down, I'm hoping it works.

So, I have this weird tradition

Before I buy anything again

It's a deep research

Like FBI level type of research.

I read every comments under her reply

Checking if anyone else tried it yet..

I went to the product page

Read every reviews on there.

Hundreds of women.

My age.

My symptoms.

Same peri screwing them over.

My husband randomly asked me while we were in bed,

"Babe, am I crazy or did you just not fart at all today?"

HOLY F*CK!!!

I didn't notice but I hadn't slipped out a cruel fart this WHOLE day!

But it took about

4-6 weeks I noticed the bigger changes

For the first time in 2 years..

I feel like I was handed back my normal body.

I'd like to break it down

30 days

Okay this was crazy to imagine but now

I sat through the whole dinner.

Both kids stayed at the table the entire time.

They used to fix a plate

Move away one by one.

I'd blame the dog for the smell, but we all knew it was me.

That night nobody moved.

We all sat.

We all talked.

We ate together just like before.

60 days

I'm gonna try not to cry as I type this

Spice and flavor was my LOVER.

I had to give it up years ago

One bite and my insides felt like they were dying.

Well, I ate the Indian curry I've been grieving

I waited for the knife in my gut.

Ummm wtf?

It never came?

I just... ate it.

Like a normal person.

90 days

I would be quick

Funny story,

When I tried to buy it again after my first use,

It was out of stock...

Which was my fault,

I should've known

To get it before I finished my first pack

So I literally lost the progress I've made

And suffered for nearly another month until they restocked

Which I decided to subscribe for a guaranteed monthly supply which was neat

They had a CRAZYYY discount at that time.

It was like 31% off if you subscribed

Definitely check if they still have it going on.

As the OP reviewing supplements

Ended her thread post

She left a word of warning.

Back when she first posted it

Her dms was flooded

Hundreds of women

Who thanked her

Because they were

Skeptical of her reviews

They thought it was BS

And waited too long

Well, they paid the price

The price of "I've tried it all, nothing works"

Which costed more

Than the supplement

It was part 2 of their peri horror movie

Straight up bloody and full of sh*t

Literally.

Honestly that's so fair

I'd rather risk losing money

If that means I might stop suffering

Money comes and go

Peri will NOT go and stabs me like hell

Okay, don't be silly like me

Looking for this supplement through

Amazon or eBay.

I already tried to look and there is NONE.

If you find any outside of the website, it might be a cheap fake.

As someone who was in your shoes

I do not want you to waste anymore money.

Because I've thought about it carefully

I've already spent $1000+ into dr visits

$100-$200 MONTHLY for failed supplements

This 4 in 1 ingredients supplements ONLY goes for $64.99 per tin with 30 strips.

That's $2 a day!

But this is the better part

If you subscribe to a monthly supply.

It's 31% off with free shipping!

That's $45...

Which literally costed like

$1.50 a day!

All the belly problems you're going through.

Gone... week by week.

No more searching late at night.

No more avoiding going out.

No more embarrassing gas and blaming on the dog.

And what struck me was

This isn't just about us anymore.

Our loved ones suffer in silent with you.

Finally being able to have a home cooked meal with the family.

The iron stomach you once had.

Your favorite food on your plate again.

Finally stop blaming yourself for everything.

Because honestly it was never really your fault anyways

It's peri's fault

Now beat up that stinky piece of sh*t.

They have a 60-day guarantee.

If it doesn't work, you email them and they refund you.

That's it.

60 days was enough time to actually find out.

And the subscription

You can cancel any time and day.

Not "30 days before your next ship date."

Not "call between 9 and 5 Tuesday through Thursday."

Any time. Any day. One click.

That's when I stopped hesitating.

It was literally risk-free.

The worst case was I'd be out two months

And get my money back.

The best case?

I lived my life on the other side of this peri ride.

Because peri is a SH*T show.

Maybe they're yours too.

"How long until I notice anything?"

About a week for me.

My husband caught it before I did when he reminded me that I hadn't fart the whole day

That was day seven.

The bigger changes

Eating spicy food again,

Sitting through dinner without running to the bathroom,

Stopped getting full after 3 bites,

Those took 4-6 weeks.

"Will it interfere with my HRT?"

No.

It works on the gut, not your hormones.

Women on HRT,

Women off HRT,

Women whose doctors told them they were too young for HRT, all uses it.

I even asked my pharmacist to double check.

She said there's nothing in it that conflicts.

"My doctor says I'm not in peri. Will it still work?"

Mine said the same thing.

"Your labs are normal. Maybe try magnesium."

For two years.

The four ingredients work the same way

Whether your doctor has officially put it on a chart or not.

Peri don't care what your bloodwork says.

"What if I have a sensitive stomach?"

The strip dissolves under your tongue.

It never touches your stomach.

That's one of the biggest reason I bought it.

The acid that killed every probiotic I'd ever taken, can't touch this.

I 100% recommend this to anyone on the peri ride.

It worked for me

I'm confident it will work for you too.

Goodbye to the peri sh*t show.

If you've made it this far

You already know what you should do.