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[Robin]

Hi all,

I've read on a menopause doctors website that Rachel Maclean MP has begun a campaign to raise awareness of menopause and it's many issues including lack of medical help etc in parliament. I really hope it leads to some of the desperately needed changes we all talk about. It's a start at least regardless of our political leanings but oh how I wish I could send them a collective roar of all menopausal women to speed them up

Robin
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[Daisydot]

I just read that too Robin more power to her I say.x

[CLKD]

Robin - you can.  Write to your local MP who will pass on comments to Rachel Maclean or write directly?  The point I would try to put over is that GPs simply are not getting the message that symptoms can really screw up lives.

[Tempest]

I'm going to write to her about the treatment (lack of) for young women in surgical menopause.

I had a young woman today contact me who is distraught after having TAH/BSO for stage 4 endo. She's about ready to sign herself into a psychiatric ward, never had mental health problems previously. She's on 100mcg patch and utro. vaginally and it's not working at all.😢😢

What we need in this case is for surgeon's to inform women before the surgery of possible consequences. Many are also told that this op. will 'cure' their endo., and it simply doesn't! This practice has to stop!!! xxxx

[Daisydot]

Ive written to Rachel Maclean MP and pointed her in the direction of this website so she can have a good read and get a true reflection of how the menopause In all it's guises is effecting everyone one of us in our everyday lives,we are just ordinary women who are crying out for help and for some compassion and consistency in our level of care from our gps, none of us want to have to pay private consultants for a service we have already paid our nhs gps to provide us with its outrageous.
What we need desperately is well woman clinics in every town again with at least one meno specialist doctor or nurse available,the nhs would save a bloody fortune on tests alone because so many of these symptom just vanish with the right menopause treatment.so much if it is caused by low oesrtrogen and the mental health issues are also a huge part of this so I sincerely hope that she can right some of the wrongs by having the voice that we don't have and the opportunity to use it where it matters. X

[Dotty]

https://www.rachelmaclean.uk/campaigns/menopause-awareness

Link to her website and article about menopause.  We definitely need more of this.

[Daisydot]

Well done Dotty I couldn't do that duh!

[Robin]

Hi Daisydot,

Did you do it via email?

Robin
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[Daisydot]

Hi Robin yes [email protected]

[Wilks]

Thanks for the link, Dotty.
It's quite encouraging!

[SueLW]

Oops!  I've just written War and Peace on her web page form  . I couldn't help myself.

We are not alone ladies.  Menopause and thyroid conditions are closely linked (many women develop a thyroid condition in their later peri stage and into menopause) and both share the same awful diagnosis, treatment and care profiles.  The House of Lords held a decent debate on thyroid treatment last week.  Let's hope we can get some help with menopause and possibly them both together!

 

[Robin]

Thanks for the links Daisydot and Dotty. I didn't know how to do that 

That's brilliant suelw. Mine will be rather long too.

Robin
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[Daisydot]

No thank you Robin for drawing our attention to the article in the first place it was a great post xx

[Robin]

Aw thanks Daisydot.

Hope you're starting to feel better? Xx

[Robin]

Oh I've just read on the other thread that you're not. This heats Lovely but a bit much if you're unwell. Hope you feel better soon x