Approximately 13 million women in the U.K are either peri or post menopausal, but it took Jen nearly a year to get the right treatment in her hometown of Nottingham.
She remembers: ‘I had been feeling so down and so dark. I called my husband John from the car crying. I don’t know what would have happened if he hadn’t picked up the phone. I felt so low then. I was thinking “What’s the point? I’m annoying to everybody. I’m so angry all the time. I’m no good to anyone. So what’s the point in being here?”Online business coach Jen, 52 – like thousands of women around the country – has faced an exhausting fight to get the treatment she desperately needed.
Over 60% of women experience symptoms resulting in behaviour changes. 1 in 4 women will experience severe debilitating symptoms, including suicidal ideation. Suicide rates for women aged 45 to 54 – the most common age for perimenopause and menopause – have risen 6% in 20 years, according to the Office of National Statistics.It took Jen nearly a year to get the right treatment in her hometown of Nottingham.
She says: ‘I was in a very dark place. I had awful thoughts.’ It wasn’t until Jen was passed on to the local menopause clinic – after another three month wait – that she was offered HRT in 2019. She cried with gratitude. While shortages of HRT have been experienced since 2019, demand surged by 30% after her first documentary ‘Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause’ aired last year.
She says: ‘I cannot live, let alone thrive unless I replace the estradiol on a daily and ongoing long term basis. HRT is not a lifestyle choice. It is vital for me.’ What happens if Christine doesn’t get her replacement hormones? ‘The research points to heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes long term,’ she says
‘Women’s health is so poor in the UK. If it were blokes, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. If women were put at the centre of women’s health, this would not happen. It is good to see the Government being put under some pressure about this.’ Dr Hum advises calling around pharmacies to get the right treatment: ‘We are hearing of people getting the gel very occasionally. Don’t give up. There is Estrogel available – it is just about finding where it is.’
Diane warns people not to reduce their doses to try and preserve their supplies. She adds: ‘That can mean their symptoms coming back. We know it’s really, really difficult. It might not be ideal, but there is still HRT in some shape or form in stock. It might not be what you would choose, but it’s better to have something, than nothing.’
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