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Gabby Logan didn't realise these symptoms were perimenopause
Gabby Logan has opened up about the shock she felt after discovering her lack of energy and dry skin were symptoms of the perimenopause.
Speaking on the Women’s Health UK podcast, Going for Goal, the 47-year-old TV presenter said she found out her hormone levels had dropped dramatically after a doctor requested she take a blood test last year. Logan said she hadn't been 'feeling like the best version' of herself for a few months prior to the test – often finding herself falling asleep at 3pm.
'It's such a steady kind of feeling, that you don't notice almost that your energy might have dropped off,' she said, adding: 'I went and had my bloods done for the first time, in terms of hormone checking, and basically, I’m probably never going to have a period again, so I’m almost through that part of my life, because I’d had IVF, she [the doctor] explained the menopause can come earlier, and I also didn’t know that.'
Logan – who has 15-year-old twin boys Lois and Reuben conceived via IVF in 2005 – said she has since made lifestyle and medical changes that have made her feel much better, including taking bio-identical hormones to restore some balance to her body.
She told Women's Health: 'I made the decision that I would use some bioidentical hormones, because she [the doctor] explained the risks and what they were, and the benefits and what they were, and I think everyone’s decision is completely individual.
'I felt like "I’m not feeling the best version of me that I can feel right now", and I don’t want to allow myself to slow for no reason…so that’s been about six months since I saw [my doctor] and I feel really good and I’m very lucky because I haven’t had a lot of the more aggressive symptoms that you get with the menopause.'
Logan added that the doctor she visited told her things like feeling inexplicably tired at 3pm and having dry skin were signs of the perimenopause which had caused her hormone levels to dip dramatically.
She went on to admit that she 'did not understand fully what was happening or going to happen to me' at the time of her doctor's visit, which is why she's so determined to share her experience to educate and inform others. Particularly the men around her.
'Men work alongside women, men are married to women,' she explained. 'I think men also need to know what’s going on because we [all] need to have that empathy and understanding of what’s happening to our partners, our friends.'
Listen to the full Gabby Logan interview on the Women’s Health ‘Going for Goal’ podcast now
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