Health Check

A few steps can be taken to keep a check on your health and to ensure that you identify potential symptoms and manage your health well up to and during the diagnosis stage:-

• Eat a good varied diet of mainly non processed whole foods
  

  
  

• Take a good multi vitamin including iron
  
  
• Take regular exercise
  
  
• Try to maintain a healthy weight
  
  
• Try and get at least eight hours sleep each night
  
  
• Keep a diary, noting any changes in menstrual cycle, migraines, insomnia etc
  
  
• If you feel tired
  
  
• If you feel fuzzy and forgetful most of the month (not just for a few days per month)
  
  
• If you find your sleep pattern is disturbed
  
  
• If you feel hot flashes/night sweats
  
  
• If you regularly feel run down despite having a good healthy balanced diet and plenty of rest/sleep
  
  
• If you notice more hair than usual falls out when washing and brushing
  
  
• During your periods you experience clots
  
  
• you notice your menstrual cycle is becoming more irregular and/or irratic
  
  
• If you feel breathless even on walking or gentle exercise: -

Visit your medical health practitioner and arrange to have some basic blood tests to check your:-

• Iron
  
  
• Haemoglobin and
  
  
• Estrogen levels

If your symptoms persist, ask to be referred to and see a gynaecologist. If you are unhappy with your general practitioner or gynaecologist's opinion, get a second opinion.

Finally, NEVER ignore ANY symptoms.