Illness Don't miss out on the headlines from Illness. Followed categories will be added to My News. Pip Edwards has reflected on her experience going through menopause, saying she “never thought it would happen” to her at 39.
The P.E. Nation co-founder – now Ksubi creative director – was in “denial” when she first started getting “extreme” hot flushes and struggling to sleep five years ago.
Rather than take her symptoms into consideration, Edwards, now 44, told The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday she felt she had to “put on this brave front and not talk about what I’ve just experienced overnight”. “I never thought it would happen to me at 39, so it wasn’t even on my radar,” she added. “I would turn up to work obviously a bit frazzled, very drained, quite tired, emotional .
.. Well, you can only put up a front for so long.
” Pip Edwards has reflected on her experience going through menopause, saying she ‘never thought it would happen’ to her at 39. Picture: Richard Dobson A new Dove Menopause Insight study of 1030 working Australian women aged 35 to 60 found more than half struggling with menopause symptoms – which can include sleep disorder, memory lapses, muscle and joint pain, headaches and hot flushes – have either quit their job, taken time off or are considering cutting back due to a lack of workplace support. Forty-five per cent of those experiencing symptoms felt they weren’t performing their best at work.
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