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Diagnosis changed her lifeAlready in menopause at 27! Why Julia's body is too early
Already in menopause at 30?
For Julia Keuchen this is reality. Because her body no longer produces eggs. The diagnosis of her illness came three years ago and changed her life.
Problems started when I was a teenager
Julia Keuchen is just 30 years old. Nevertheless, heat waves and exhaustion are part of their everyday lives. She is suffering from an illness. Consequence: Her menopause began very early – when she was just 27 years old. Julia got her period for the first time when she was eleven. The Düsseldorf resident quickly noticed that something was wrong. Her periods came too often and she bled heavily. It was different with her friends. Her doctors' advice at the time: the pill. Julia's symptoms were typical of her illness. Her diagnosis could have been determined more quickly with a blood test. But not all gynecologists realize this.
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Important life decisions: children or not?
At the age of 27 the diagnosis came: premature ovarian insufficiency (POI). Means: Your ovaries stopped functioning very early. Suddenly Julia and her new partner had to ask themselves whether they wanted to have children. At the same time, she had to accept her fate and come to terms with the new reality. This initially caused sadness and despair and Julia asked herself: “Why me? It's so unfair.”
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Premature ovarian failure: Diagnosis via blood test
If her doctors had given her a blood test sooner, her illness would have been detected more quickly. The 30-year-old is now taking her fate into her own hands. As a women's health coach. She wants to raise awareness of diseases like hers through workshops and social media. Julia Keuchen has now learned to love her body again. That wasn't always the case. At some point she will need hormone replacement therapy to compensate for the missing hormones. Until then, she is still trying to help herself through a healthy lifestyle. She pays attention to her diet, exercises a lot and takes time off.
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This happens during menopause
In healthy women, the body reaches the end of its egg reserves in their forties. Then hormone levels also fall, for example the hormone estrogen. The body's reaction to this: it wants to reproduce. Releases hormones that are supposed to stimulate the eggs and estrogen production again. These hormonal changes are stressful for the body. They lead to the symptoms that are well known during menopause: heat attacks, depression, bone loss and many more. With premature ovarian insufficiency, this all happens before the age of forty. But only one in a thousand women goes through menopause before she turns 30 – like Julia Keuchen.
