MYTH: It’s all down hill in the bedroom after the menopause

‘IT DOESN’T have to be,’ says menopause expert and gynaecologist Dr Heather Currie. ‘The main problem is many women are embarrassed to talk about their menopausal symptoms to get them sorted.’ A study last year from Trinity College Dublin found that 59 per cent of over-50s were still regularly sexually active, with 69 per cent of them having sex on a weekly or monthly basis.