So many women who have traversed the menopause will be familiar with hot flushes, tender breasts, brain fog, bladder problems, mood swings, low sex drive and crushing fatigue.
Yet the long list of symptoms that affects 60 per cent of menopausal women is also typical of the perimenopause – a long-ignored pre-menopausal phase that is blindsiding millions in their 40s and is largely ignored by their GPs.
Actress Davinia Taylor, 43, felt her worries were dismissed when she sought help. “For a few days during my cycle I started getting an ‘I’m not worthy’ rhetoric in my head, complete pessimism about everything going on in my life – from being a mum to my ability to make financial decisions,” she says of the symptoms, which began three years
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