This Morning star breaks down in tears as she opens up on devastating health battle

The popular This Morning guest, Eva Speakman has opened up about a recent health battle, and revealed she broke down in tears after her symptoms returned.

Speaking to Laura Hamilton on her Mile Fly Club podcast, Eva revealed the impacts of the perimenopause and said that she didn't even connect the symptoms at first.

The ITV's This Morning star said: "The only reason I found out I was in the perimenopause Laura, is because my hair was falling out and my concept of the menopause was always hot flushes and your periods stop.

"That's what I thought, but I had neither of those things, and it was because of hair loss and really severe joint pain, and I kept going back to the doctors and they'd say 'there's nothing wrong with you.'

But, after much persistence Eva said that she finally got the diagnosis that she needed. And, despite continuing to suffer from symptoms, she was prescribed HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy).

With two years having passed, Eva reflected on some of those symptoms before her diagnosis and revealed that at one point she even thought that she was suffering with early onset Alzheimer's.

She said: "My concentration was horrific, I struggled with remembering people's names, there was genuinely one point were I thought I've got some form of Alzheimer's here that's happening at early onset because of my memory."

But, after battling the symptoms of the perimenopause two years ago, and having raised awareness of the condition in the years since, Eva broke down in tears as she said the symptoms returned earlier this year.

She said: "I just had this influx again, of symptoms, weight gain, the memory thing, grumpy, joint pain, I can't sleep and I'm like 'what the hell's going on?' I'm taking hormones, what can this be? And again, because you are on HRT there is this kind of 'well you're already on HRT, so we're doing everything'. But, I was kind of no, there's something not quite right here."

After speaking with her consultant she began to understand the condition further, saying: "What I hadn't appreciated was that when you're going through the perimenopause, you are still producing some hormones, but it's in peaks and troughs.

"So what I hadn't realised was that when you do actually get through it then, the production of those hormones is just fully stopped and I'd not evaluated since then. Literally within the last few days I've spoken to my consultant about it and just said 'I really need your help, because this is not right.'

"They said 'look, this is pretty common', nobody told me it was pretty common, so I didn't expect this, I was flying high and suddenly felt like I fell on the ground with a thump and again you kind of feel like a bit of a fraud because you've been going on about 'you can get through perimenopause' and then I've hit the ground again."

Now, continuing to cope with the symptoms, she said that a new course of medication has helped her 'get on the right track again'. She said: "But I am now starting to pick myself back up again, and even knowing that this is a fairly normal thing and now we're evaluating both my hormones and the administration of those again, because at the time I didn't realise that there's tablets, there's gels, there's sprays, there's patches, I'm having a shift to that, so I'm on the right track again."