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Oprah Winfrey is opening up about the difficulty she faced getting answers from medical professionals about one commonly overlooked perimenopause symptom. The OWN founder, 69, revealed during an April 5 panel conversation about menopause that doctors never explained to her that the heart palpitations she began experiencing in her late 40s were likely caused by entering menopause. 'I never had a hot flash in my life. Never had one ... but I started at 48 with heart palpitations.
’ ‘Do you feel that you’re duller than you used to be?’ ‘Yeah,’” Winfrey recalled. Shriver said that, in her research and reporting on menopause, she's found that many doctors misdiagnose the mental symptoms. “Most people at Oprah’s age, when they would go , a lot of times, they’re like, ‘You need antidepressants.’ They diagnose you with depression and that midlife depression anxiety. And they don’t even ask you or tell you that this could be a symptom of being perimenopausal,” said Shriver.
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