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Perimenopause & Me: ‘The doctor said I might be depressed, but I knew I wasn’t’


by IMAGE
03rd Sep 2022

In the first part of a new series, health and fitness coach Deborah Branigan opens up about her perimenopause experience, and her struggle to get an official diagnosis.

“In 2017, at the age of 40, my husband and I were trying for a third baby. After six months of trying, I started tracking my ovulation… I wasn’t ovulating and my periods were all over the place but I just put it down to age and the stress of having two kids under two. I had lost a lot of weight, was exhausted and had that “sad” feeling. To be honest, I thought it...

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