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[Dancinggirl]

Sadly many of us have to resort to a private gynae appointment with someone who specialises in the treatment of the meno to get the right advice.
The NHS simply can't cope with what is seen as a 'quality of life' treatment.  I think we are really getting a 2 tier system with the NHS and it is a post code lottery when it comes to treatment for all kinds of things. 

Not wishing to become too political - I really hope they take the NHS out of the political arena and make it a cross party issue.  Maybe then they could be honest with us and simply admit we all need to pay more for our health service. Would a bit extra on our National Insurance contributions be so terrible? Sorry for the rant but I find it such a waste of time and resources when someone sees a doctor who is simply not qualified to give the advice that's needed.

GypsyRoseLee - don't be too demoralised - I had the same thing happen to me when I first went to a NHS meno clinic and I nearly gave up but I saw the right doctor on my second visit and things got sorted.  Do try to be assertive if you see your GP - they should be able to give you what you need.
Good luck  DG x

[GypsyRoseLee]

I completely agree with you Dancinggirl.

The locum I saw assured me he was a gynaecologist but if that was the case I would have thought he would have been far more familiar with different HRT preparations and their uses? Instead he just kept looking through the BNF. Presumably he can't ever have prescribed Evorel Conti before else he would known for certain whether the patches needed to be worn every day.

But as a gynaecologist I would have thought he would have prescribed Evorel Conti many times, as it's such a commonly used preparation for post meno women.

The appointment was a waste of my time, and really a waste of his time and a waste of NHS resources. Because he wasn't competent to the task in hand, I will now end up having to go back to see my normal consultant 'again'.

I will also probably have another appointment with my GP (the 2nd in 10 days, thanks to this HRT debacle) to see if she can prescribe herself, or at least write 'again' to my own consultant with my concerns and asking for a 2nd opinion.

It's such a needless waste of everyone's time and resources.

Without revealing too much I do have to deal with the NHS through my job. I am constantly shocked at how incredibly poorly organised much of it is, with several people all appearing to do identical roles and endless paperwork which I just can't believe is necessary.

[CLKD]

Was he newly qualified I wonder? 

[GypsyRoseLee]

He was middle aged CLKD and all the staff spoke very affectionately about him.

[CLKD]

They obviously weren't suffering from peri-menopause etc.  ……..