![]() It makes me so happy-and is the greatest reward-to see others grasp the reins of their lives and take control. That which I most wanted to give has been given to me. And in the process of sharing my stories, mistakes, and big lessons, my own commitment to living more fully has deepened. In every city, I've been overjoyed to see people sharing their openhearted yearning to reach for something more, their desire to do and be better. It's a dream that's lived in me forever: to travel the world speaking face-to-face with women (and some very cool men) about the thing that matters most-raising our individual and collective consciousness to a higher vibration so that we each may fulfill our innate calling. She opened it and it read: “Heart palpitations symptoms of perimenopause.I've been on the road now since September, going from city to city on weekends for The Life You Want tour. It wasn’t until the talk show host spotted a booklet in a doctor’s office that she connected her heart flutters to the change. At one point, a female doctor had given me, first of all, an angiogram and put me on heart medication and never once mentioned that this could be menopause or perimenopause.” “And I went from doctor to doctor, literally five different doctors. “But I started at 48 with heart palpitations,” Winfrey continued. Never had one,” she explained in the first episode of her new menopause-focused series, The Life You Want, in which Maria Shriver, Drew Barrymore, and doctors Sharon Malone, Heather Hirsch, and Judith Joseph joined the icon. Instead, the 69-year-old experienced other indicators of “the big M,” as she calls it, that, at the time, even her doctors missed. For Winfrey specifically, she was at a loss at the beginning of her journey because the main symptoms-hot flashes, mood swings, night sweats-weren’t present. ![]() Menopause has been a hush-hush health topic among women for decades, which made it particularly difficult for Oprah Winfrey-and so many others-to understand the transition when it began. ![]() She also revealed her unexpected first menopause symptomthat doctors missed.She began by hosting a panel with Maria Shriver, Drew Barrymore, and doctors to discuss the change.Oprah just launched a new series titled The Life You Want in which she aims to normalize and destigmatize menopause. ![]()
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