TV personality Jenny Powell has opened up about her life-changing hysterectomy, which she underwent four months ago after nearly a decade of suffering in silence.The former Wheel Of Fortune star, 56, began experiencing peri-menopausal symptoms around nine years ago, but the last two years have been particularly difficult.
She believes it's high time women's health was taken more seriously. "Even though I tried to send out all these positive, smiley, 'everything's lovely' vibes, I was suffering," she reveals. "I had terrible bleeding, really bad, to the point where I was changing four times a day and in a job like mine, that isn't good." She continues, "I was a bit of a joke at yoga because I was always the one with the mat by the door so I could go to the loo about three times in an hour-long class.There was also a heavy congested feeling and I was always quite constipated.
It's been really bad over the past two years. And I just got used to it. It bemuses me why women's health in this regard is so neglected." The concept of "getting used to it" frustrates Jenny almost as much as her physical symptoms.
However, as a busy working mum to Constance, 24, and Pollyanna, 16, her own needs often took a backseat, reports the Mirror.
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