"Women are often asked to keep a diary of symptoms and period patterns but until now purpose designed diaries have been lacking. This book provides the tool that has been missing. I will definitely recommend the hot flush diary to my patients, website visitors and magazine readers."

Are you going through "the change" - the perimenopause or menopause? Are you suffering from hot flushes, night sweats, heavy or irregular bleeding? Do you wonder if your symptoms have a pattern to them or could be better controlled by making dietary or lifestyle changes?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then the hot flush diary will help you!

• Start at any time of the year
• See clearly and easily the severity and patterns of your key symptoms
• Understand whether stress or lifestyle factors are making your symptoms worse
• Monitor the effect of any treatments or interventions
• Simple to use - highly effective - stylishly discreet

When you are going through the menopause, understanding and controlling your symptoms can be quite difficult, which is why health experts recommend keeping a record of your symptoms and the factors that may influence them. But this is easier said than done - many women struggle to know what symptoms to record and more importantly, how to record symptoms in a way that makes sense when it comes to reviewing them later.

The hot flush diary will make recording and monitoring your symptoms easy - this can be an important step toward you taking control of your menopause.

Your hot flush diary will fill the gap between your ‘expert' knowledge of yourself and the expert knowledge your doctor or specialist has about the menopause in general.

The diary's reflections pages will keep you in touch with what is happening to your body week by week, while the specially designed symptom monitoring chart allows both you and your doctor or therapist to see at a glance how you are managing.

If you take medication or make lifestyle changes, you can chart the results in your diary and really see if it is helping or not. You will be able to see trends as symptoms change as well as patterns and relationships between different symptoms.

The diary's straightforward guide to the perimenopause and menopause includes advice about seeking alternative as well as conventional treatment and helpful advice on breaking the taboo - how to tell your family and friends about what is happening to you.

There are nearly ten million women in the UK alone who are perimenopausal or menopausal but the hot flush diary is about you - it's about helping you to understand your specific symptoms so that you can take control and sort them out.

"People who use these self monitoring diaries should be able to develop a greater sense of mastery and control not only of their symptoms but also their lives."