Bec describes herself as a career woman used to juggling work and a busy life. Bec sought advice from a GP about perimenopause when she was around 45 years old as she felt like she was starting to lose interest in everything.
“I’ve always been a dedicated workaholic and then perimenopause hit and I didn’t really care anymore,” she says.
Bec saw a GP who specialises in women’s health and who supported her to take a holistic approach to managing perimenopause.
She made dietary and exercise changes and focused on the cognitive effects of menopause.
“I was more adversely affected by those cognitive things – memory loss, brain fog, inability to multi-task and not wanting to multi-task – those things were bigger than the physical changes,” she says.
“One woman’s journey is not the same as another one’s so it’s been good to look at it holistically – not treating one symptom here and one symptom there.”
