'It changed who I felt I was.' Women tell of devastation at early menopause diagnosis

By Rhonda Garad, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Knowledge Translation, Monash University
Amanda Vincent, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor and Endocrinologist, Monash University

For Mary*, being told she’d entered menopause much earlier than expected was a shock …

It was sort of like I’d gone from 39 […] instead of turning 40, I’d almost turned 80. So I’d sort of skipped 40 years.

Around 10% of women – including many who believe they have the prospect having children ahead of them – are suddenly told they are at the…

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