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[Jules]

You asked a perfectly rational polite question.  I don't see the problem.

I thought so, I didn't criticise her, I didn't accuse her of having a full personality or no sense of humour. It's ridiculous really. People get defensive. In the end, none of us know each other, we could be responding on here to a man for all we know🤷

[AmandaJR]

You asked a perfectly rational polite question.  I don't see the problem.

What problem? I don’t see a problem?
Jules has asked a question after 8 on a Saturday night and hasn’t had an answer by 10am on a Sunday morning, on the last weekend before Christmas. Perhaps Bombsh3ll hasn’t seen it yet?!

[Ayesha]

Bomb has been asked before if she is medically qualified and has never answered, perhaps its about time she did. Its dangerous to give out medical advice on the internet if you are not qualified to do so, even if that advice has been well received by some.  Its a perfectly valid question to ask in the circumstances.

[Minusminnie]

Just my opinion but I would have thought much is obvious without Bombsh3ll having to answer.

Probing can lead to good people leaving this forum.

[AmandaJR]

Hi Eliphanty,

A belated Welcome!

I share your frustration as I was totally oblivious to post menopause HRT benefits too. I felt clueless about approaching menopause and didn’t know what peri menopause was either. I too assumed I’d just need HRT until post menopause.

It took a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to tell me I’d need HRT for life to protect my hips before the penny dropped.

I think we need far more research into all aspects of health in order to get more medication choices and a huge budget increase in professional training to get much improved care for everybody.

I know there are a lot of reasons why women don’t want to or can’t take HRT but there must also be a lot of women like me … oblivious!
I am relatively well-educated and very health conscious. However I was totally clueless about the impact declining estrogen has post menopause.
I’d always thought that HRT was only for helping women to get through perimenopause. Supported by the fact that it is recommended aged 45-51. That implies it is to help with the transition.
But what about after? Are we supposed to just shrivel up?! Did you know for example that the discs in our spine degenerate more quickly post menopause? I didn’t.
Why isn’t HRT taken more routinely as we continue to age given how beneficial it is for bones, heart, mood, skin, blood vessels, blood pressure, joints, muscles etc?
I feel frustrated that I wasn’t fully informed. I feel I’ve spent 4 years post menopause starting to shrivel when HRT could have helped to at least slow the process down.
How can this lack of awareness be changed? Or is it just me?

[Mary G]

Just my opinion but I would have thought much is obvious without Bombsh3ll having to answer.

Probing can lead to good people leaving this forum.

That's what worries me, I would hate to lose yet another valuable forum member, we've lost a lot of good, knowledgeable people over the years.

If anyone on here doesn't agree with bomb's style, go and see your own doctor for help. Let's hope they are not as bloody useless as many of the doctors I have consulted over the years or the doctor someone mentioned on here who prescribed oestrogen without any progesterone by mistake.

[Jules]

All this reminds me of why I stopped using the forum in the past. You ask or say something perfectly normal and polite, and people start making an argument of it on that person's behalf. Merry Christmas everyone and good luck with managing your menopause.

[sheila99]

Following any advice or opinion on here I think you have to do your own research and check that it's right for you with your own doctor. I'm not medical but I'd never admit it on here if I was, it could potentially open you up to being sued if the advice turns out to be harmful. Your own doctor has your medical history and knows what other medication you're on so is in a better position to judge. It's just a shame that the medical profession in general knows so little about it that we often get better advice on here (certainly I find there's far more knowledge here than in my surgery).

[Ayesha]

Agree, there is far more knowledge here mainly because of our own personal experiences, certainly that’s were my advice comes from with regards to GSM.
You are right, if one gives the impression of giving professional medical advice you are opening yourself up to legal action, or more so the forum admins for letting it happen.

 
 

[bombsh3ll]

For anyone that was asking, I intentionally choose not to disclose what my previous role was on here as it is a social forum and I would not want any of the opinions or suggestions I share to be misconstrued.

If I am able to share an idea that might help someone, which they or their clinician may not have considered then that's something they can do their own research on and take to their provider.

I also know that a lot of women are in desperate need of support and assistance that they cannot access, and that some are essentially going it alone, obtaining treatments and blood tests without any help to navigate these.

Women's reproductive and peri/postmenopausal care has always been a special interest of mine and I still receive (and read) all the bulletins and journal articles, probably in much more detail now that I have the time.

As just another midlife woman on a forum I am not constrained in the opinions I express by any of the dictat handed down from above within the NHS and other bodies around limiting prescribing, hormones being for the palliation of vasomotor symptoms only, and for heaven's sake no testosterone.

I suffered a life altering brain injury which forced me to take early retirement from my chosen career, but I currently work in a voluntary capacity in education and in a local food bank.

[Minusminnie]

Wishing you a Happy Christmas Bombsh3ll. 

[bombsh3ll]

Thanks 😊