‘The psychological problems [of the menopause] tend to be insidious and can impair a woman’s ability to her domestic and work environment . . . They can destroy self-confidence and self-esteem and are an incomprehensible low point in the lives of previously well-adjusted and competent women.’ from The Menopause, J. Studd and M. Whitehead [...]
- Will Medicare cover all my menopausal tests and treatments? Medicare covers all investigations except bone density scans, and this may change in the near future.
- Can premenopausal women increase their bone strength? The reason I ask is that my bone density is low, possibly due to a time many years ago when I was [...]
Discussions on sex after menopause tend to focus on one aspect above all others — the physical changes to the vaginal lining, which becomes thinner, less acidic, and more easily damaged with age. A compelling argument against this focus, put forward by Germaine Greer in The Change, is that ‘it has been proved time and [...]
Recent UK research suggests that, although our health is generally better than that of women in centuries past, we seem to be more prone to osteoporosis than our female forebears. A team of researchers examining bones buried between 1729 and 1852 in the crypt of a London church found that the rate of bone deterioration [...]
You may be confused by the distinction made between the ‘natural’ and the ’synthetic’ hormones of HRT. When your doctor describes a particular HRT hormone as natural, this means that it is broken down according to a normal biological pathway of the body. For this to occur, it must have the same structure as a [...]