3.5 million …the number of women aged 50-65 currently in the workplace.
‘I was 44 when I hit perimenopause but was still having periods so didn’t equate my symptoms to being menopausal. I struggled mainly with psychological symptoms: brain fog, forgetting names, losing words, sleepless nights before meetings and anxiety. I went from being super confident to worrying I had early onset Alzheimer’s. My GP didn’t diagnose perimenopause and my mum had never spoken about it, so I had no reference point.
‘I didn’t know what was happening: I was self-blaming, felt incapable, full of
