blog: On menopause | Mosaic

Blogger's Note: briefly touches on surgical menopause but does give the history of HRT/ERT research (and opinions)

On menopause | Mosaic

.... Hannah Short, a trainee GP, and Natasha North, convener of Menopause UK, launched the #ChangeTheChange campaign in March 2015 in frustration at the confusing, poor information available not only to women, but to medical professionals. “The menopause wasn’t in any of my textbooks,” Short told me during the British Menopause Society conference coffee break. She’s heard of women going to one GP to be put on HRT, then going to another who takes them off it. She’s heard of one GP who said that women just need to pull themselves together. She told me of a nurse who had gone through a surgical menopause who was treated as a hypochondriac when she complained her oestradiol treatment wasn’t working.....