Menopause Matters Forum
Forum Guide and News => Events => Topic started by: Emma on February 07, 2017, 01:18:49 PM
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(http://www.menopausematters.co.uk/images/insiders-guide2017.jpg)
The programme will be available on the BBC i player for a month after transmission so anyone interested can catch up with it. Obviously viewers from other parts of the UK can access BBC Scotland these days.
The BBC has a programme page with a trailer and a couple of clips from the programme.
further information via
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fmspd
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Looking forward to this, hope it isn't just about hot flushes and hrt though. Be good to be about the issues people don't know about.
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Excellent!
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THE INSIDERS' GUIDE TO THE MENOPAUSE featuring Menopause Matters and myself (!) is confirmed as going out on BBC2 Scotland at 9 p.m. on Thursday 16th February. The programme will be available on the BBC i player for a month after transmission so anyone interested can catch up with it. I hope you enjoy it.
Best wishes
Dr Heather Currie
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Thank you, if only I could watch it here in Brazil... :(
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Got it lined up to record! :)
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I think that anyone with SKY in any part of the U.K. can see this on channel 970 - sorry Menomale :-*
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That's fine Cazikins, I can't access NICE guidelines too... the UK is a very exclusive place in the world. ;)
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http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15089892.Kirsty_Wark__We_need_to_talk_about_the_menopauses/
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Just a reminder - this is on tonight at 9pm.
I'm recording it.
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9pm tonight - don't forget to watch it or record it.
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Kirsty Wark: 'Let's talk about the menopause' - BBC Scotland news website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38905528
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I thought this was really good - well done to the makers. Covered quite a lot of topics really very well. I personally found the DEXA bone scan piece interesting as I did have a nagging feeling about not taking HRT because of potential bone problems. With no family history, and being non smoking and just about non drinking, and an active lifestyle I feel I am low risk, so that was really useful.
https://www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX/tool.jsp
This is the calculator used.
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:thankyou: for letting us know about this!
Has anyone else managed to see the programme yet? What did you think?
I saw it on iPlayer last night and agree with you nearly50 - thought it was really well put together/edited and covered a huge variety of topics in a very short time - from flushes to bones, sex to magnets, surgical menopause to fertility, HRT types to GP education, not to mention the importance of lifestyle and diet, and the British Menopause Society! Really great to have the top women talking about the issues and treatments and not just the male gynaes who are often interviewed/reported on when there are HRT controversies for example. I loved the Ab Fab clip as well :)
This should be compulsory viewing for everyone - should be shown at prime time in rest of the UK too!!
Hurdity x
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It was excellent!
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I watched the programme and enjoyed it very much, coping with the menopause seems to involved eating huge amounts of cake ;D It seemed though that most people ended up on HRT, and reading this forum it seems a lot of people end up on HRT. I would have liked to see more of how people manage without HRT. I didn't really believe in the magnet down the pants solution. Is there anything else that actually works. HRT is not an option for me, I have begged and pleaded with GPs for the last couple of years for some hormonal help but because of a family history of breast cancer, and also the fact that I still have regular periods, they flat out refuse to give me anything. They have offered me Prozac which to me seems ridiculous, my problems are caused by lack of hormones, I am not suffering from a mental illness.
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I noticed the cake too (but I'm not a fan of cupcakes - mountains of horrible sickly butter icing!) - and a huge plate of Danish pastries in one house! Menopause = comfort eating = cake! ;D Perhaps they should have had piles of grapes, blueberries and clementines instead to get the message across about lifestyle, weight and of course blood sugar levels!
I have commented on your introductory thread. As you say Prozac should not be offered for the physical symptoms of menopause if HRT is an option.
Hurdity x
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I agree that it was a excellent albeit a very medicalised view of the whole menopausal experience.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBfx5ruuOU
Found it here