I Thought I Was Fainting

Turns Out It Was My Hormones

It happened in the middle of a store. One second, I was comparing skin serums. The next, the floor shifted like I was standing on a boat.

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My heart raced. My vision tunneled. And I thought, Great, this is how I go out—aisle 12, next to the hyaluronic acid.

I wasn’t fainting. I was dizzy—hormonally dizzy.

Turns out, estr…