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[Katejo]

Send an e-mail to Dr Currie on here?

Speak with a local Pharmacist, they have private rooms these days.  Take a list of your concerns and ask if he/she can give advice and if there are any Surgeries that support Menopause better than others.  Do you have a Practice Nurse who might be more willing to discuss in detail?

would a pharmacist be willing to say whether 1 practice were better than another re. menopause (even if they knew)? Mine isn't good on it but I haven't heard any recommendations of another which might be?

[Roadrunner]

Dahliagirl - lol I know!

I was doing really well on Femoston 2/10 too, and actually I prefer the ease of taking a tablet and not getting the hairdryer out plus having a daily reminder or my wretched hormones or rather lack of them plastered to my skin! I would have liked to try Estrogel in my ideal little world. I'll try Femseven Sequi. Maybe I'll get better absorption, get in a calmer place, my stomach will settle and I can go back to Femoston 2/10. Trying to be positive.

Toying with the idea of a private consultation ... clutching at straws???

RR xx

[dahliagirl]

I usually find looking at the practise lists, qualifications and number of women on the websites is a start.

Unfortunately for me the only practice that would take me on was the local village one.  It has one part time female doctor, one who used to work in a field a million miles away from anything meno and has said he does not do women's stuff and a new one who was a partner elsewhere and likes to be an all-rounder.  And a prescribing nurse a bit older than me.  Its demographic is such that expect a lot of hrt is prescribed, though 

I saw the website of someone who went to school with me and would probably not touch a woman with a barge pole given the chance.  All the menopause stuff is delegated to the nurse's clinic and he seems to be busy with the business side, taking over running other practices/clinics.

[dahliagirl]

RR - I would give the patches a chance, but keep researching the options.  I have only done it before for my prolapse op and saw the same person I would have seen on NHS.

[Roadrunner]

Thanks everyone.
 At least with a patch I can rip it off. Assuming I can get it to stick.
Now where's my hairdryer  ...
 

[Katia]

The 100mg Utrogestan are on that list. You would take two if you did it cyclical. It seems people either love them or hate them. For me that cause insomnia, I'm groggy and feel cloudy and they just don't seem to agree with me. They are a very good diuretic though