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[CLKD]

Make sure it is a dedicated menopause doctor, not a Gynaecologist nor 1 who believes that they know it all!  This 1 sounds pedantic.  Her time will come 

Tell your GP about MM, how reading the VA and 'bladder issues' threads has shown you that there are several ways of treating VA and that regular use of 'vagifem' or 'ovestin' is necessary, that some need treatment every night etc..  Add Dr Currie's name and that the Forum is medic led might help ;-).

Let us know how you get on!

[Lamplighter]

Thanks again CLKD.  And will do 

xxx

[Tinkerbell]

I am late to your post but i was referred to a gynae with an interest in menopause. He was completely out of date and wanted to do an endometrial biopsy because i had been using Vagifem for 6 months. I saw a meno specialist privately after that and she wrote to my GP to say Vagifem is perfectly safe to use daily. I use three pumps of Estrogel a day as well.

[CLKD]

tnx Tinkerbell - some 'experts' (how I HATE that word  ).  really think that they know it all!

[Lamplighter]

Thank you Tinkerbell and sorry for the late reply.  Your experience just goes to show that you don't really know the calibre of whomever you're seeing until (often!) it's too late.  It seems that even if we go in armed with lots of facts and figures and 'official' support and know exactly what we want/need (and how many of us know that eh?) that's still no guarantee of getting the right treatment.

Case in point, this consultant I spoke to prescribed me something last week that is unavailable in the UK (!!!!!), but on top of that when I researched it the (very few) US sites that came up with it indicated research that said the stuff was not efficaceous for what she prescribed it for anyway.  Hmmmmmmmm.

Re the Vagifem - I decided to look up the exact amount of oestrogen in Vagifem - and thinking that 1 mcg might be 100th of a gram, was gobsmacked to find it's actually one MILLIONTH of a gram.  So one dose of Vagifem is equivalent to 10 millionths of a gram of oestrogen - and even then most of that doesn't get into the system.  So how on earth using it daily (which is what I wanted - but of course there's only 24 doses in a pack so I'd need a prescription for double quantities hmmmmm again) is going to give me 'too much oestrogen' is totally beyond my brain to compute.

I am really really annoyed at her and doubly annoyed that she will be influencing my very helpful and very accommodating GP adversely.  Now where did I put that doll with the pins in it....

[Postmeno3]

I hear you. You're being shown a quality you might need to find more of in all this? Result!
💚

[CLKD]

> hands over doll and pins <  . personally I would be giving Dr Currie the name of this 'expert'  . 

[Lamplighter]

Hi Postmeno3, not sure I understand exactly what you mean, but it sounds positive so thank you 

CLKD - so that's where it went to lol.  Yeah I'm not sure what, if anything, I could do about this sort of thing, not enough to warrant a complaint just a general 'I don't think this person is terribly competent, which could become dangerous if one doesn't remain vigilant' feeling.  But why should any of us have to be vigilant ?? ??

Anyway I sure as hell don't want her coming anywhere near me again with a scalpel