I put the jaw ache and the exhaustion down to the menopause for six weeks just to keep working: the morning a cardiologist looked at my small arteries, I understood what those weeks had cost me
A woman spent six weeks attributing jaw pain and bone-deep exhaustion to menopause, only to discover her small arteries were silently starving for blood. Her story illuminates a dangerous gap: up to 50% of women with angina have no blocked arteries, yet their symptoms are routinely dismissed as hormonal or stress-related.