Highland woman who 'lost herself' due to early menopause takes on Strictly Inverness

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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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00:00 I was just diagnosed with being in early menopause last year. I had just turned 30.

00:06 It was a bit of a process before that. I had lost my menstrual cycle for around three years

00:15 before I seen a gynaecologist and obviously once I seen the gynaecologist it kind of went from

00:25 there but I was on gynaecology's waiting list for about two and a bit years. Once I went to see the

00:33 consultant she kind of instantly knew that you know it's likely that I'm in early menopause

00:39 and then I waited maybe about a further six months to have the official diagnosis just after you know

00:45 blood tests and repeats of blood tests just to make sure. So yeah it's been a bit of a journey.

00:52 My mum was kind of like to me "Oh god Lana how are you feeling about this?" and I was just like

00:57 "Oh um it's okay" and because I actually was completely oblivious to what that meant for me

01:04 um I suppose I didn't really understand. I didn't realise what actually being in early menopause

01:12 meant because for me I was never taught it so was you know why would I know about it type thing.

01:19 More recently with um you know the the hormones back in my body um I just quite angry um I was

01:30 really quite angry it didn't matter what I did what anybody did for me I had this almost anger

01:36 that just sat on top of my chest and it just almost wanted to explode out um regardless of what I did

01:43 I could have had the best day I could have been at the Ritz and I would have still been like sitting

01:47 there wanting to just come out. Thankfully I've I've got a child um it is definitely something

01:56 that we've had to come over as a family. My little boy quite often asks me when he can get a brother

02:02 or a sister and it's been more so recently actually and um obviously I have kind of had to

02:10 explain to him that that's not going to happen um but no it's definitely something that I try not

02:16 think about too much because I'm grateful that I have somebody you know I'm grateful that I've got

02:21 my little boy um but of course you know it has definitely been a hard subject to to swallow that

02:31 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

02:40 well like you want it more um you know I'm at the age that a lot of people around me are having

02:48 their babies or having their first child or you know having more children and as much as I try not

02:58 let it impact me there is also that like oh it'll never be again um is gonna cause me grief to an

03:08 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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