'It changed who I felt I was.' Women tell of devastation at early menopause diagnosis

  • Written by: Rhonda Garad, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Knowledge Translation, Monash University
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For Mary*, being told she’d entered menopause much earlier than expected was a shock …

It was sort of like I’d gone from 39 […] instead of turning 40, I’d almost turned 80. So I’d sort of skipped 40 years.

Around 10% of women – including many who believe they have the prospect having...

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