{"id":16559,"date":"2022-03-15T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=16559"},"modified":"2022-03-15T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:10:18","slug":"when-menopause-is-not-an-easy-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=16559","title":{"rendered":"When menopause is not an easy ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lack of information and openness about menopause is needlessly affecting some riders\u2019 wellbeing and enjoyment of equestrian sport.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That’s according to the latest edition of Horse and Hound, who interviewed keen rider Diane Danzebrink .<\/p>\n

H&H<\/em>\u00a0has spoken to numerous riders who found their enjoyment of life and riding had been seriously affected by symptoms, such as severe anxiety, mood swings, weight gain and physical pain \u2013 but had no idea at the time these were linked to perimenopause or menopause. Some reached the verge of giving up horses, for many their lifelong passion and source of exercise, and others had stopped riding altogether.<\/p>\n

Diane told them: “I have counselled so many women who have given up horse riding or cycling.<\/p>\n

\u201c[When it comes to] horse riding it\u2019s very often [owing to] a loss of confidence, they\u2019re experiencing anxiety, they\u2019re struggling with their mood, they\u2019re not the confident rider that they used to be. There\u2019s also the symptoms that nobody ever wants to talk about and some of those symptoms are very intimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that for riders, those physical symptoms can become \u201cunbearably uncomfortable to the point of being painful\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lack of information and openness about menopause is needlessly affecting some riders\u2019 wellbeing and enjoyment of equestrian sport. That’s according to the latest edition of Horse and Hound, who interviewed keen rider Diane Danzebrink.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16563,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions\/16563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}