For six months, I’d been feeling uncommonly irritable. I was tired, fed up and ready to throttle my poor husband, simply because his breathing annoyed me. My joints were sore and stiff, I had given up yoga and I kept waking up in the night. I feared there was something seriously wrong with me.
Although I was in my mid-40s, what hadn’t at that stage occurred to me was that my symptoms were perimenopausal. Once I had made the connection, I started taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the hope it would bring me relief. And it did. In common with all of my patients, HRT made me feel more like myself again and gave me back my pleasures in life.
However, in 2016, a new study suggested that women…
