Menopause affects all women in different ways, but it’s an experience that’s not often talked about. Did you know, for example, that 51 per cent of women say menopause affects their relationship , 60 per cent of women suffer brain fog in menopause and 10 per cent of women quit their job due to menopause (according to The Menopause Charity )? That’s a lot to deal with and a lot of the time men are blissfully unaware of the trials and tribulations women go through at this stage in their lives.
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I woke on Tuesday at 4am and could hardly breathe. I was sweating (and, post-menopausal that I am, I never sweat) and racked with worry. I grabbed my hair, put my head in my hands, and said out loud, ‘What am I doing? What was I thinking?’