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Millions of women are ‘fobbed off’ by GPs who fail to recognise menopause symptoms, a major survey suggests. It found that one in four sufferers have to visit their doctor at least three times before getting appropriate treatment such as HRT. Common symptoms such as anxiety and heart palpitations are frequently dismissed by GPs who … Read more
Dorothy Byrne, head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, was in a meeting with her boss when she felt the all-too-familiar heat rising from her feet to her face, which she knew would be pillar-box red and glistening with perspiration. To make matters worse, Kevin Lygo, then director of television and content, was … Read more
The mother-of-two went beetroot-red in the face as I spoke to her in my GP clinic last month. It’s an effect I seem to have on many of my menopausal patients these days. She’d come in for help with hot flushes – and there I was showing her pictures of NHS-approved sex toys and suggesting … Read more