Oprah Winfrey drew on her personal experience with menopause as the reason she created a TV special on the subject.
An Oprah Winfrey Special: The Menopause Revolution aired Monday, March 31 on ABC, and streamed today on Hulu and Disney+.
“When I was going through it, there was nothing,” Winfrey said when the show first aired Monday night. “There was nobody. I felt, literally, that I was going to die. Every… single… night.”
Winfrey, 71, said she suffered from heart palpitations, which at the time she didn’t know were related to menopause. She suffered the symptoms when she was 48, and said doctors never once said her symptoms could be related to menopause.
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“Every night, for a solid two years with just horrible heart palpitations, I thought I was going to die,” Winfrey explained.
During the special, she revealed she didn’t sleep well for those two years because of the symptoms she suffered. “I was always surprised when I woke up,” she said.
Oprah also revealed she let her famed book club lapse because she could not concentrate when reading because of the brain fog her condition created. “I could no longer finish a book,” she admitted.
She brought it back when she began taking an estrogen hormone and could concentrate again.
Watch a clip from the special below.
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