I get the i newspaper, I have it daily only because it is being delivered by an elderly gentleman who has been delivering papers since I was a tiny tot over 55 years ago. However, it feels like it has an agenda against women suffering from severe menopausal symptoms, me being one of them. In recent months they published an article about a doctor who brings out books on women's health claiming the menopause is 'empowering' etc etc, then just over a month ago they printed a column by a young female journalist who couldn't wait for the menopause and become 'an old' bat' ( her words) and yesterday they printed a very ignorant letter from a woman who thinks the menopause isn't that bad, it's just like a case of acne as a teenager and that we should all get through it with out medicinal help.
As I struggle through another day of feeling damned if I do and damned if I don't regarding HRT I just wish women who have breezed through the menopause would just shut up. Off HRT I suffer up to 20 hot flushes a day, night sweats causing lack of sleep, joint pain and brain fog, on HRT I don't have those symptoms, but, I gained weight, have severe back acne suffer from anxiety and fatigue and am prone to migraines. I am now on a half patch, which stopped the bleeding and helps with the hot flushes and so on, but, I still get anxiety and back acne and lack of motivation and concentration.
I would give my eye teeth to go through the menopause without the need for HRT and the last thing I need is to open the newspaper edited by some bloke who thinks he is being woke by printed articles on the menopause, but, only ones that show his ignorance on the matter.
