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Lisa Snowdon 'burst into tears' when she finally got diagnosis after six years of health struggles


EXCLUSIVE: TV and radio star Lisa Snowdon talks to OK! about her health struggles and how it took her six years of searching to finally get a conclusive diagnosis

Lisa Snowdon reveals it took her almost six years until she realised she was perimenopausal (Image: LORNA ROACH PHOTOGRAPHY)We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. “I felt anxious, had low moods, heart palpitations and panic attacks,” she tells us, “Things I’d never experienced.” She was even struck with vertigo, another lesser-known symptom. Her initial visit to a GP, at 41, led to a misdiagnosis of depression and a prescription for antidepressants, which did nothing to address the real cause.

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