Once HRT was ruled out, everything I was offered was the same idea in a different bottle: supplements, herbal capsules, something to help me sleep. Every one of them was another thing to swallow, another thing to remember, and another thing I had to ask my doctor about first.

I didn't want a better pill. I wanted to stop living out of the medicine cupboard. So I started looking for something that wasn't a pill at all.

Menopause already gave me enough to manage – the hot nights, the mornings I woke up tired, the days I didn't feel like me. The last thing I needed was a new routine with rules.

With the ring there is no routine. I put it on in the morning and it stays on, day and night. No doses, no timing it around meals, nothing to count. That's the whole thing.

They're two separate ways of helping, working at the same time. Neither needs me to do anything except wear it.

I didn't want to look like I was managing a condition. No patch, no device, no app beeping at me.

It's polished stainless steel in gold, rose gold, silver or black, and it adjusts to my finger. At breakfast, at work, at dinner with friends – it just looks like a ring.

That's what I was really after: calmer mornings and feeling like me again, without hormones.

And if it hadn't helped, I had 90 days to send it back. Every Magneva ring comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee – wear it every day for 90 days, and if you don't feel the difference, you get every cent back.