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When, at 41, Dr Dan Hegarty suffered from muscle aches, a low libido and lethargy, he didn't expect to be diagnosed with a women's condition

Involuntarily nodding off in the afternoons is not conducive to the work of a GP, so it was with some alarm that Dr Dan Hegarty found himself doing it at a mere 41 years old. But his biggest shock of all came when he was told what was wrong with him – he was going through the menopause.

"The male menopause was a term I'd never heard of as a doctor," says Hegarty, now 54. "But I happened to read an article about it in a GP publication and the symptoms described me. My concentration was lagging to the extent that I couldn't even watch a film all the way through and I had to swap the quality papers for the tabloids. I was feeling really fatigued, I was getting irritating muscle aches in my legs