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Meg Mathews, 51, reveals masturbating helped the symptoms of her menopause after suffering so many effects she thought she was PREGNANT
Meg Mathews revealed on Loose Women today that she’d suffered through a horrific menopause – and the only thing that made her feel better was masturbating.
The 51 year old told the panel that she’d had such severe symptoms that doctors thought she was pregnant before prescribing her with anti-depressants.
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The former party girl – who was married to Oasis’s Noel Gallagher in the nineties – says the only thing that made her feel better was masturbating.
“I still haven’t got much of a libido,” she said. “I split up with my partner and the thought of having sex with my partner was really not a big thing. But they have seen scientifically that the more you masturbate, the better it is.
“It has worked for me. You basically … it puts a spring in your step. You can get quite dry in your vagina [during the menopause], but it plumps everything up.”
Talking about how the menopause affected her mental health, she said: “One day I woke up of this feeling of being quite low. All this anxiety hit me. I’m a worrier but I’d get a bill and my stomach would go into this completely knotted panic.
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“And then I couldn’t go out to buy a pint of milk, I got this social anxiety.
“I felt completely depleted in my life. I lied [to avoid going out] – I even told people I had glandular fever. There was no obvious reason, I just woke up one day and that was it.
“They [doctors] thought I was pregnant at first – I kept feeling nauseous, my boobs hurt, I woke up in the morning and when I walked to the toilet everything ached, I had dry mouth syndrome.
“I was terrified, I thought I was going mad. My periods were always ok, I gave birth in an hour and fifteen minutes, and then one day I was hit with this – it hit me like a train. No build up. I had the night sweats but I didn’t get the hot flushes."
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Meg claims that after a ten minute chat with her GP, the menopause went undiagnosed.
“I went to the doctors and they went here you are, take these. I took these anti-depressants for about a month – and I knew I wasn’t actually depressed – for me it was anxiety and worry. I’ve lived quite a life – I’ve walked down a red carpet so I know what it’s like to be nervous.
“I started looking up the symptoms. There are 34 symptoms and I had 32.”
What made her realise that the symptoms weren’t just anxiety was when Meg spoke to friends about what she was going through.
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“I went out there and started talking to other women, everyone started to open up,” she says.
The panel – including Kaye Adams and Linda Robson – joked about how sweaty the menopause makes women.
Stacey Solomon went on to reveal she’s “never” had a libido.
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