Menopause and Hormone Therapy: Current Perspectives and Controversies | For Women

[@heleng9690]

It is very sad that you are an international society and don’t really understand menopause. It isn’t just hot flushes and night sweats. I am an active 59 year old women eating a health diet, non smoker and drinker and exercise regularly. This is not enough to stop me suffering. HRT protects your bones and hearts and keeps you healthy longer. It helps your brain function again, helps you sleep, stops you feeling anxious and so much more. Testosterone may be prescribed for libido but it has huge benefits on urinary tract infections and lack of need to pee all the time. It also stops you feeling that life isn’t worth living. A women can easily get anti depressants but these don’t work but for many testosterone is not available and it gives you your life back. It’s a shame as a large organisation you can’t get funded research to evidence base on this. Women aren’t going on HRT to stay young they are opting to go on it to feel like themselves again. If I had had testosterone years ago I’d not have had years of urninary tract infections or felt so sad with life. Yes everyone is different and everyone should get to choose what they want and need and for how long but share the real facts fully so women don’t have to fight for it.

[@unahorgan6014]

HRT pulled me out of a spiral of insomnia and anxiety 7 years ago. It's not an exilir of youth but it does make you feel "normal" again.

[@audreyfischer8662]

Hi, thank you for this presentation. It is especially timely for me. I would like to read the white paper and supporting references. I am not a practitioner. Could you please provide the link? Thank you .

[@InternationalMenopauseSociety]

Hi Audrey, the link to all our World Menopause Day resources is www.imsociety.org/education/world-menopause-day/

[@audreyfischer8662]

@@InternationalMenopauseSociety Thank you for the resources. Fascinating. Enough to keep me busy & learning!

[@marisolpagan7388]

This is the most outstanding literature for women in how to navigate through their own individualized menopausal treatment. There's been a sudden rushed marketing to have every menopausal women on HRT, and to be honest is frightening the methods that are being strategist to this so call normal stage of life... yet the emphasis on not taking hormones will eventually lead us to osteoporosis, dementia, alzhimers and the list goes on. I'm glad their are resources for women's care, but still can't help feeling an absolute incompetence without ministering some type of hormonal therapy. The pressure is real!