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Highland woman who 'lost herself' due to early menopause takes on Strictly Inverness
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05/03/2024
A Highland woman has challenged herself to take on Strictly Inverness after she was diagnosed with early menopause in her 20s and subsequently lost herself.
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I was just diagnosed with being in early menopause last year. I had just turned 30.
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It was a bit of a process before that. I had lost my menstrual cycle for around three years
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before I seen a gynaecologist and obviously once I seen the gynaecologist it kind of went from
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there but I was on gynaecology's waiting list for about two and a bit years. Once I went to see the
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consultant she kind of instantly knew that you know it's likely that I'm in early menopause
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and then I waited maybe about a further six months to have the official diagnosis just after you know
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blood tests and repeats of blood tests just to make sure. So yeah it's been a bit of a journey.
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My mum was kind of like to me "Oh god Lana how are you feeling about this?" and I was just like
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"Oh um it's okay" and because I actually was completely oblivious to what that meant for me
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um I suppose I didn't really understand. I didn't realise what actually being in early menopause
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meant because for me I was never taught it so was you know why would I know about it type thing.
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More recently with um you know the the hormones back in my body um I just quite angry um I was
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really quite angry it didn't matter what I did what anybody did for me I had this almost anger
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that just sat on top of my chest and it just almost wanted to explode out um regardless of what I did
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I could have had the best day I could have been at the Ritz and I would have still been like sitting
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there wanting to just come out. Thankfully I've I've got a child um it is definitely something
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that we've had to come over as a family. My little boy quite often asks me when he can get a brother
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or a sister and it's been more so recently actually and um obviously I have kind of had to
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explain to him that that's not going to happen um but no it's definitely something that I try not
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think about too much because I'm grateful that I have somebody you know I'm grateful that I've got
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my little boy um but of course you know it has definitely been a hard subject to to swallow that
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it'll not happen even if I if I want it to um so yeah if you know that you can't have something as
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well like you want it more um you know I'm at the age that a lot of people around me are having
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their babies or having their first child or you know having more children and as much as I try not
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let it impact me there is also that like oh it'll never be again um is gonna cause me grief to an
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extent but equally at the same time don't want to yeah don't I don't like thinking about it too much.
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