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In 2013, aged 47 (I am 56 now), I developed hormone-based breast cancer and had an urgent left-side mastectomy. I’m Canadian but I then moved to the UK because my boyfriend was British and I had a second breast reconstruction with a top surgeon here in Britain. My health was now fine. My boyfriend and I got married and in 2015 I started working in Education…
I am originally from Spain, but I have been living in the UK for the past ten years. When I arrived here at the age of 33, everything seemed to be going well. However, when I turned 35, I began to experience various challenges. I started having hot flushes, my confidence plummeted, and I struggled with mood swings and irritability…
As time has passed, it’s become increasingly clear to me how life-changing Dr Kalentzi’s treatment for my menopausal symptoms has been, as the second part of my story shows…
I first recognised some symptoms of what I now know as the menopause back in 2017. I was driving along a country lane and had an overwhelming feeling of fear and loss of control. I thought it best I stop the car, turn the engine off and take a breath, but I felt so strange. I was shaking and felt I couldn’t drive any further…
In 2013, aged 32, very shortly after the birth of my third baby, I found myself in the unfortunate position of having had a full hysterectomy. Desperate to get home to my young family and continue my busy life, I took the pamphlets thrust at me regarding the menopause and scuttled out of the hospital doors. Getting over the operation was relatively quick and easy for me, so I wasn’t prepared for what my body hit me with just a few months later …
I’m telling my ‘Patient’s Story’ to let other women know how grateful I am to Dr Kalentzi for sorting out the insomnia I developed as a result of the perimenopause. Dr Kalentzi was the third doctor I saw for my problems and the only one who was able to help me.
I started suffering from insomnia when I was 46. It was really bad. Most nights I didn’t get to sleep until 5am, so I had to do my work on one or two hours sleep a night. It was incredibly hard and I felt like I was going insane…
I went to Dr Kalentzi after the doctors at my GP practice were consistently difficult about prescribing HRT for my menopausal symptoms.
I was about 49 when I began getting heavy bleeding between periods. A consultant diagnosed fibroids. The bleeding, though heavy, was very intermittent and it wasn’t until I was 53 that I decided on a hysterectomy. It was a total hysterectomy and my ovaries were removed…
I was 49 and in very good health, when I suddenly started getting symptoms that I thought were probably due to hormonal imbalances. I got hot flushes that came every twenty minutes. My body heated up as if I was in a sauna and my heart raced. Because the hot flushes occurred all through the night I couldn’t sleep, and they were so bad I couldn’t work when I was having one…
I was recommended to Dr Kalentzi’s perimenopause services by a colleague after struggling with physical symptoms from the age of 45.
I went to see my GP who took blood tests and told me that because I was continuing to have a regular menstrual cycle I was not a candidate for any treatment. Furthermore, I was told that all my tests were within normal ranges and I was given a clean bill of health…
I thought I had managed to miss the symptoms of menopause. I had reached 50 and mistakenly thought I was sailing through it.
However, I recall one morning I had a terribly ‘foggy’ head and had trouble getting out of bed for work, as if I had the flu. I had these symptoms regularly but did not think that it was a symptom of the menopause but rather it was just a regular headache. Other symptoms arrived around the age of 52, these included regular intense migraines, hot sweats during the night; having wet bedclothes a pool of sweat on my chest…
More and more women experience their perimenopause in their early 40s, however so many are misdiagnosed for a considerable length of time.
In this video, Joanne shares her story on her journey with the perimenopause…
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