Symptoms and Signs in Puberty and Perimenopause are an indication of what the body needs - sciatica and acne

Most people think of perimenopause as a list of symptoms to manage. Hot flashes, disrupted sleep, headaches, mood changes, joint pain, brain fog, dryness etc. The standard approach is to mask them — synthetic hormones, medication, pushing through.

This is the wrong way to think about it.

Perimenopause (just like puberty) is when the body drops the veil and shows you what you still need to resolve if you want to have better health in the next chapter of your life.

Everything your body shows you during these times of transition (when the brain is literally remodeling) is pointing at something that needs attention. Acne in a specific spot means that organ is crying out for help. Simply applying the right colour to the corresponding sector on your back can not only clear the acne, it helps the organ as well (which is why the acne goes away). See the bottom of the Esogetic Medicine Resource page for the maps.

What you address now determines the quality of life you have later. What you cover up now accumulates and shows up as something harder to address later on.

This is the story of one week during my own perimenopause — what my body was showing me, what I tried, what didn't work, and what finally did. I fall in the Physical Health (degenerative, sometimes even small degenerative) bucket.

The problem — sciatic pain that wouldn't budge

I was trying to clear sciatic pain on my left side. I fell asleep with several RestoreChi tracks playing under my left gluteal fold, right where the pain was — including sciatica support and a few balancing tracks.

It helped a little. But it didn't clear the pain.

The change that mattered — treating the root, not the location

In the night I moved the speaker from the painful area to my left kidney.

That's when things shifted.

By morning the sciatic pain finally released in a way it hadn't when I was only treating the spot that hurt.

This is one of the most important principles in this work — and one of the hardest to trust when you are in pain: the loudest symptom is almost never the root. The body signals where it hurts. The cause lives somewhere else. Treating the location gives temporary relief. Treating the root creates lasting change. And in fact, the root is not just the kidney, but chill in the sacral area (and because this is left side, unresolved negative emotions and mindsets when it comes to working with women, my mother wound) → see Pain is Embodied Chill

Why I suspected the kidneys — and what perimenopause has to do with it

As my period was nearing I noticed a few things at once. I was unusually thirsty. When I drank, it felt like the fluid just sat in my stomach rather than absorbing.

Sometimes thirst is simply thirst. But sometimes it is a sign that the body's filtering and regulation systems need support — and that the organ systems responsible for fluid distribution are under strain.

In perimenopause, as reproductive hormones begin to shift, the body often leans more heavily on stress hormones. The kidneys (with their adrenal gland hat) are central to this.

When the kidneys are under strain, it shows up as low back pain, sciatica, sleep disruption (due to frequently needing to urinate).

For me, the pattern was pointing to a need for deeper support — not just local pain relief.

Symptoms move — and that is not a bad sign

Before this phase, my pre-period pattern used to show up as breast congestion. Before that it was deep sinus pressure that I mistook for headaches. More recently it has been occasional sharp pain into the sinus area of my right eye when I am stressed, and constant pain upon touch in my upper left nostril (now cleared with the use of Sea Berry Omega-7 and taking dairy out of my diet).

Many people get scared when symptoms change or move — does this mean things are getting worse? Not necessarily. In Esogetics, symptoms that move are often a sign that the body is communicating. A symptom that stays fixed in one location for years is more concerning than one that shifts (because then the issue is in the brain, see the pain section of Advanced Esogetic Techniques | Colorpuncture & Beyond).

What matters is learning to see the big picture and offer the support your body is asking for.

Pain comes back — and that is also not a bad sign

Low back pain returns for me when I am emotionally activated. It shifts left to right depending on whether I am dealing with an issue with women in my life (left side — the mother principle, self-care) or with stepping out into the world with my work (right side — the father principle, how we walk our path).

In Esogetics, the left side of the body relates to what we learned from mother — or didn't. The right side relates to what we learned from father — or didn't. When issues are one-sided, this is called laterality, and it points to a block in the corpus callosum — often from trauma before age twenty-five — that prevents the two sides of the brain from processing information together.

Pain coming back does not mean what I did to relieve it didn't work. It means the body is still trying to show me something. Under pressure, the body tightens, circulation changes, and old pain pathways light up again. That is not failure. That is information.

→ Pain is Embodied Chill — how emotional pain stores physically and what releases it

What this means for you

If you are in perimenopause (or your child is going through puberty) and you want to make the most of this time, reach out:

• We track patterns, not just the symptoms

• Test small, appropriate interventions

• Pay attention to what changes — sleep, pain, digestion, complexion, mood, energy

• Adjust based on feedback from the body

• Pace ourselves so the body can integrate rather than push through

Sometimes the most effective shift is surprisingly simple — like moving a speaker from the site of pain to the organ that is actually under strain. Or shining some coloured light on a specific area on your back.

The body always knows. Our job is to learn to listen to it — and to act when readiness arrives.

→ Physical Health

→ Mental Health — getting you back into your body so healing can land (and is not wasted)

→ Pain is Embodied Chill

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