hot flushes, brain fog, sleep deprivation and anxiety. I felt like a failure. What I didn’t realise – partly because I was still having periods – was that I was perimenopausal.When I started the job in January 2019, I was 46 and I’d just come off the Pill.
I’d been on it since I was 18, except for breaks to have my three children (now 18, 16 and 15), and I wanted to stop pumping hormones into my system.
I didn’t realise that my oestrogen was depleting and the Pill had been masking the drop.Just weeks into my new role, I was getting feedback from colleagues that I wasn’t listening.
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