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I knew I had to do something about my menopause symptoms when I froze in front of a large audience, unable to remember the title of my presentation on the gender pay gap. The cause was brain fog brought on by the menopause. I was 51 at the time and had had menopausal symptoms for about two years. They had begun with irregular periods and weight gain. Low mood and debilitating sleep disruption caused by night sweats followed – I couldn’t sleep through the night…
In 2013, aged 47 (I am 56 now), I developed hormone-based breast cancer and had an urgent left-side mastectomy. I’m Canadian but I then moved to the UK because my boyfriend was British and I had a second breast reconstruction with a top surgeon here in Britain. My health was now fine. My boyfriend and I got married and in 2015 I started working in Education…
I am originally from Spain, but I have been living in the UK for the past ten years. When I arrived here at the age of 33, everything seemed to be going well. However, when I turned 35, I began to experience various challenges. I started having hot flushes, my confidence plummeted, and I struggled with mood swings and irritability…
As time has passed, it’s become increasingly clear to me how life-changing Dr Kalentzi’s treatment for my menopausal symptoms has been, as the second part of my story shows…
I first recognised some symptoms of what I now know as the menopause back in 2017. I was driving along a country lane and had an overwhelming feeling of fear and loss of control. I thought it best I stop the car, turn the engine off and take a breath, but I felt so strange. I was shaking and felt I couldn’t drive any further…
In 2013, aged 32, very shortly after the birth of my third baby, I found myself in the unfortunate position of having had a full hysterectomy. Desperate to get home to my young family and continue my busy life, I took the pamphlets thrust at me regarding the menopause and scuttled out of the hospital doors. Getting over the operation was relatively quick and easy for me, so I wasn’t prepared for what my body hit me with just a few months later …
I’m telling my ‘Patient’s Story’ to let other women know how grateful I am to Dr Kalentzi for sorting out the insomnia I developed as a result of the perimenopause. Dr Kalentzi was the third doctor I saw for my problems and the only one who was able to help me.
I started suffering from insomnia when I was 46. It was really bad. Most nights I didn’t get to sleep until 5am, so I had to do my work on one or two hours sleep a night. It was incredibly hard and I felt like I was going insane…
I went to Dr Kalentzi after the doctors at my GP practice were consistently difficult about prescribing HRT for my menopausal symptoms.
I was about 49 when I began getting heavy bleeding between periods. A consultant diagnosed fibroids. The bleeding, though heavy, was very intermittent and it wasn’t until I was 53 that I decided on a hysterectomy. It was a total hysterectomy and my ovaries were removed…
I was 49 and in very good health, when I suddenly started getting symptoms that I thought were probably due to hormonal imbalances. I got hot flushes that came every twenty minutes. My body heated up as if I was in a sauna and my heart raced. Because the hot flushes occurred all through the night I couldn’t sleep, and they were so bad I couldn’t work when I was having one…
I was recommended to Dr Kalentzi’s perimenopause services by a colleague after struggling with physical symptoms from the age of 45.
I went to see my GP who took blood tests and told me that because I was continuing to have a regular menstrual cycle I was not a candidate for any treatment. Furthermore, I was told that all my tests were within normal ranges and I was given a clean bill of health…
I thought I had managed to miss the symptoms of menopause. I had reached 50 and mistakenly thought I was sailing through it.
However, I recall one morning I had a terribly ‘foggy’ head and had trouble getting out of bed for work, as if I had the flu. I had these symptoms regularly but did not think that it was a symptom of the menopause but rather it was just a regular headache. Other symptoms arrived around the age of 52, these included regular intense migraines, hot sweats during the night; having wet bedclothes a pool of sweat on my chest…
More and more women experience their perimenopause in their early 40s, however so many are misdiagnosed for a considerable length of time.
In this video, Joanne shares her story on her journey with the perimenopause…
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