If you’d told me in my thirties that in my early forties I’d be carrying antihistamines everywhere and never leaving the house without an EpiPen, I wouldn’t have believed you. Yet here I am at 43 (nearly 44), navigating perimenopause alongside a whole new world of allergic reactions, food intolerances, and environmental sensitivities that have genuinely changed how I live day to day. Working with the allergy clinic at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, I’ve been diagnosed with a