Thank you for your helpful suggestions Rockhopper, I will take heed when I make my complaint.
Yes Dana, sadly even now in this day and age when menopause is more widely discussed and NICE guidelines have been updated, there are still medics who don't understand. Instead, they choose to fob us off with their quackery and insistence that we don't need estrogen. Fair enough, they are entitled to their views but they should not be allowed to interfere with their professional work. Ok, if we chose to go see a homeopath then we would expect alternative therapies but when we have appts to see consultants on the NHS we expect them to follow guidelines and not let their personal opinions overrule.
There probably are some ladies who find alternative medicine is enough to help them deal with their menopause but sadly, large numbers of us do need supplementing with estrogen and only that. No amount of oil will do.
Do you know, he actually asked me how I thought women went on years ago before hrt was available. I replied that ages ago women didn't live much past middle age anyway but in more recent times they must have suffered horribly. He had the audacity to say they didn't suffer and it was because they drank linseed oil!! I kid you not, he actually said that! *headbuts the desk*. I tell you what, he is proof that dinosaurs still exist in some parts.
