Hot flushes, night sweats, anxiety and insomnia - the symptons of menopause are no fun.There’s also ‘brain fog’, mood swings and depression.
Every year rougly 1.5 million women are quietly enduring them, and yet only one in ten are prescribed Hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
HRT is currently only available following a consultation with a GP or specialist - but this week it was announced that for the first time HRT would be reclassified so that women can get it from a pharmacy without a prescription.
For most women in the UK, menopause - the stage in a woman’s life when the levels of her reproductive hormones, oestrogen, and progesterone, decline naturally - starts at 51 and for one in every 100 women it starts before the age of 40.
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