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A smiling menopausal women working out with small purple weights
Our teenage growing pains may be a distant memory, but as we enter menopause and perimenopause we often develop a similar problem – rather than growing pains we get ageing pains.  Because we expect to feel more pain and stiffness many women simply accept this without realising...
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A menopause symptom graph indicating which symptoms are likely to appear according to amount of oestrogen you have as it drops.
After we go through menopause, we're considered to be in a stage called postmenopause, and we retain this status for the rest of our lives. Postmenopause includes the years following menopause when a woman hasn't experienced a period for over a year. During this stage...
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The cast of And Just Like That.
Whatever your feelings on the Sex And The City reboot there was one scene that got us thinking about those people who claim to never experience any symptoms of menopause.  As Charlotte, Carrie and Miranda met up for brunch and discussed menopause...
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A woman crouches at the beginning of a running track, a large battery on her back indicating energy and speed.
When we get together with our friends, something we often hear is “...but I just didn't/don't have the energy to do it”.  Whatever we want more energy for, be it a fitness regime, a hobby, or even just the housework, as we get older it becomes harder to muster this up.  We cast our minds back to our twenties when.....
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A women has her fingers in her mouth. looking anxious.
Anxiety is a feeling we're all very familiar with, having endured two years of a pandemic with more uncertainty no doubt to come.  It is also one of the more troubling symptoms of menopause, reported by nearly a quarter of women as being a frequent problem.... 
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