Last night, Davina McCall posted a video message about HRT on Instagram, and it's got a lot of people thinking – myself included. The TV presenter's New Year message was aimed at women who have been struggling with perimenopause symptoms, and open to taking HRT, but who are putting it off, for whatever reason. And it really resonated with me.
I will soon turn 44, and in the last year have been to my GP more than once to discuss why I just don't feel 'right', for no apparent reason. Neither time has the subject of perimenopause come up, and asked directly if it could be a possibility, I'm met with vague answers and an obvious lack of desire to explore it. Instead symptoms are put down mostly to stress, and I've been sent away after being told to monitor what I believe to be perimenopause symptoms. Each time I've left feeling frustrated that the diagnosis is wrong, and eventually it will be found I could benefit from HRT.
