Deborah Garlick was experiencing such terrible chest pains when she was 45 that her husband thought she might be having a heart attack. A visit to a hospital saw her prescribed painkillers, but it wasn't until she went private that she found out something different. At age 45, Garlick was experiencing perimenopause - the transition to menopause. “I hadn’t heard that word then,” says Deborah, now 59. “It’s amazing how things have changed.” She started taking HRT – and still does – and once she “