'We lost our teenage years to menopause – as friends partied we faced a whirlwind of fear and were left broken'
“Then when they stopped, I was terrified I could be pregnant, despite never having even kissed a boy. My mum Siobhan took me to the GP, but they just prescribed me the Pill to see if that helped.”
A psychotherapist and chair of Daisy Network, a charity offering information, advice and support to women under 40 going through the menopause, she’s heard more shocking POI stories than she can count. “Finally, at 17, when I was also struggling with acne, my mum Rachel decided I should see a private doctor. They scanned my ovaries and ran some blood tests, told me I was fine and put me on the Pill,” she says. “Suddenly, I was bleeding once a month, which lulled me into a false sense of security.”
From being a first-year student focused on friends and plans for that weekend, Phoebe was suddenly forced into thinking about her future.She says: “It was overwhelming to think about what I might want in a decade, but I didn’t have the luxury of time as a huge ticking clock was now hanging over my head.”would offer egg freezing and feeling she didn’t have time to waste, Phoebe’s parents paid £7,000 for the procedure privately.
Despite her bi-annual appointments and changing medications – first the Pill and then HRT at 23, when tests found that her rapidly falling oestrogen levels were impacting her bones – Jess was too embarrassed to tell her doctors about her changing symptoms. It wasn’t until Jess was 25 that something shifted. “It took a decade for me to find the courage to finally ask my doctor what the options were for my fertility. Freezing eggs when I was 15 hadn’t been an option, as I only had a limited amount and the success rate at the time was low,” she says.
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