Seema Sharma

Hot flushes and mood swings get all the airtime. But dizzy spells, tinnitus, frozen shoulder and skin that feels like it's crawling? All real, all common, all connected to the same shifting hormones. Here's the science behind fourteen symptoms nobody warned you about.

Someone close to me asked me a simple question, and I had nothing. Not what do you want for dinner. What do you want, actually. Turns out I'd spent decades getting very good at everyone else's answers and none of my own.

Being low-maintenance always felt like a compliment until midlife friendships taught me it was actually self-protection in disguise.