Overwhelmed by unusually heavy periods in her 40s, Shaline Manhertz presumed it was a sign she was approaching the menopause. She was also quick to dismiss the brain fog and intense fatigue she was experiencing at the time.
‘I was incredibly busy and I put a lot of what was happening to my body down to stress of work,’ says Shaline, now 51, a communications strategist.
‘I was also running around after my son and daughter, who both had busy lives themselves.’
Yet at times she felt so exhausted that she would have to ‘take half a day off work to recover, before
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