Well it doesn't really relate to me but I'm gonna wade in regardless
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- just to say that after my experiences on different hrts and finally finding the only thing that works for me is gel and utrogestan - I would be terrified and extremely unhappy if our Executive in NI (haha that's hypothetical cos we don't have a functioning one..but...) suddenly decided that because they gave free prescriptions they were suddenly going to reconfigure the health budget and say Utro was too expensive and that meno women were only allowed cheaper drugs. On top of that if they then, instead of saying it was about money came out with a load of out of date reports and stats that justified their decision by say "they were doing it for our own good so we didn't all get cancer"! I would be terrified and rageing!
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There have been a number of women in Scotland Kilted who have written on the forum about problems with prescribing in Scotland along with the women who report problems with prescribing of hrt in general throughout the UK. That sentence is a generalisation, and I wrote it and Hurdity's sentence "many women are not happy..." is also one, but "name the women who are not happy" is a little confrontational if I may say so. The wider issue might be that whilst in a huge, wider, general discussion, there can be for's and against's for "governments prioritising fertile women" this forum relates to issues faced by menopausal women whose lives are destroyed and blighted when medical science has the solutions but refuses to dispense them. And they are indeed destroyed..jobs, marriages, homes, the real damage is hidden and never discussed until maybe very recently.
On the issue of money - I would comment that in this day and age, if "governments" and society in general consider women able to work until we are 65 plus, so they can collect our tax revenue so they can "prioritise fertile women to produce future generations", might I respectfully suggest the wider conversation should be that they give us access to the relevant medications - ALL OF THEM, that might allow us to do so in some comfort and quite frankly it is not much to ask for really especially as our tax revenue will be contributing to the "fertile women's" maternity leave!
Now - no hair pulling, punching or gauging ladies
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I like my head, I don't want it ripped off - just lively discussion for the good of the menopausal women everywhere
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