{"id":16602,"date":"2022-04-11T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=16602"},"modified":"2022-04-11T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:36:50","slug":"the-menopause-nearly-destroyed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=16602","title":{"rendered":"‘The menopause nearly destroyed me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can break marriages, end careers and even lead to suicide. Anna Moore of the Daily Mail recently interviewed women whose debilitating symptoms went ignored and <\/span><\/span><\/span>finds out what it took to get their lives back on track. One of them was our own Diane Danzebrink, founder of Menopause Support.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Read the full article in the Mail Online<\/a> here.<\/p>\n

Aged 45, a hysterectomy had sent her into a surgical menopause, yet no one had warned Diane what she might expect. \u2018I knew I wouldn\u2019t get periods and I might get hot flushes, but I certainly didn\u2019t know there were more than 30 other possible symptoms.\u2019 These range from insomnia and panic disorder to joint pain, headaches and electric shock sensations.<\/p>\n

Within months Diane was paralysed by anxiety that seemed to have come from nowhere.<\/strong> After a terrifying moment where she came within a hair\u2019s breadth of driving her car into the path of an oncoming lorry, Diane found herself sitting in front of a doctor who carefully explained the impact of menopause on mental health.<\/p>\n

\u2018Within days of taking HRT, life didn\u2019t seem quite so hopeless,\u2019 says Diane. \u2018As I started getting better, I couldn\u2019t believe that I was the only person this had happened to. I set up a website to find others.\u2019<\/p>\n

For many women, the menopause has brought total rupture, dividing lives into \u2018before\u2019 and \u2018after\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Some have lost careers or marriages,\u2019 says Diane. \u2018Many have been told by their doctors that their symptoms can\u2019t be hormone related as\u00a0 they are still having periods or they aren\u2019t experiencing hot flushes.\u2019 In truth, the years before menopause, the perimenopause \u2013 where hormones can be in freefall, or on a rollercoaster of peaks and troughs \u2013 can be equally challenging. Perhaps it\u2019s not surprising that in the UK women in their early 50s have the highest risk of suicide compared to women in other age groups.<\/p>\n

The Mail article also looks at the cases of three women, Joan, whose symptoms were so bad after coming off the contraceptive pill that she almost took her own life, Sarah, whose menopause cost her a career she loved, and Lesley, who says she ended her marriage ‘needlessly’ following stress and anxiety.<\/p>\n

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