‘HRT SAVED MY SANITY… AND MY sex life’

The first time I visited a gynaecologist was in 2013. I’d just come back from a lovely holiday in Mykonos and felt really down. There was no obvious reason. I’d just had a great time away but I just didn’t feel right. I mentioned it to one of my girlfriends and she suggested I see consultant gynaecologist Sara Matthews to try and work through it. Sara was a fantastic, vibrant, amazing woman. In her London office, there was a scented candle burning – I felt instantly relaxed, not at all how I expected to feel at a medical appointment.

Sara was incredibly down to earth. Rather than medical speak, she talked to me in an approachable way that I needed to hear, and I felt I could really open up to her. I told her I’d been feeling low, weepy and not like myself at