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9 months agoHere Come the Flash Periods
In 2016, Alisha Coleman, a 52-year-old 911 call-center worker in Georgia, was fired from her job because she started experiencing a hallmark symptom of perimenopause: unpredictable and heavy periods, also known as flash periods.Once, her period was so heavy, she bled through her clothes and onto an office chair.