Pip Edwards has opened up about her own personal experience of menopause after her symptoms started at just 39 years old.
The fashion designer, 44, has admitted she was in ‘denial’ when she suffered ‘extreme’ hot flashes and trouble sleeping five years ago.
She told me The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday, she felt like she had to continue working without making any adjustments to her life.
“I never thought it would happen to me at 39, so it wasn’t even on my radar,” she said.
‘I obviously came into work a bit tired, very exhausted, quite tired and emotional. Well, you can only put up a front for so long.”
Pip later learned that her mother had also experienced symptoms early in her life.
The designer revealed that she uses the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) patch and the pill to manage her symptoms.
Menopause is the natural time in a woman’s life when she has gone twelve months without menstruation.
Pip Edwards has opened up about her personal experience of menopause after her symptoms started at just 39 years old
The term perimenopause refers to the transition phase to menopause and can be accompanied by symptoms such as an irregular menstrual cycle, hot flashes, reduced fertility and sleep problems.
Most Australian women enter perimenopause in their mid-40s and then enter menopause between the ages of 45 and 60.
Pip first spoke about her private struggle with menopause in March last year.
She said she “didn’t notice” her symptoms prior to a severe hot flash she suffered while attending her son Justice’s basketball game because she was too focused on maintaining her fitness, growing her business and raising her only child, with whom she shares. former Dan Single.
Ultimately, she decided to visit a fertility clinic to freeze her eggs.
The fashion designer, 44, has admitted she was in ‘denial’ when she suffered ‘extreme’ hot flushes and had trouble sleeping five years ago
Tragically, she was unable to undergo the procedure as egg freezing was banned due to Covid rules preventing elective surgery.
Due to the severity of her symptoms, she also could not delay menopause by using hormone replacement therapy.
By the time she was taken off hold for the procedure, it was too late.
‘I was absolutely in shock because I would never think about that [carrying another child] are not an option. I am healthy. I’m fit. I am in the prime of my life,” she lamented to Stellar.
“If I had known my family history better or had conversations, I might have started preparing my options for whatever life I choose in my early 30s.”