'I thought HRT was for older menopausal women before I started taking it'

'I thought HRT was for older menopausal women before I started taking it'

Three women candidly share their experience with HRT (Picture: Supplied) When Kendal-Rose Horner was in her twenties she was prescribed four different types of antidepressants in a bid to combat persistent angry outbursts and depressive episodes. None of them worked.  As she hit her thirties things only worsened and Kendal-Rose began to endure headaches, joint pain, restless legs, extreme fatigue, and sleep troubles.  ‘I had to stop working,’ th…

The work of neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi, whose name is on the list of the most influential scientists in the world produced by The Times, addresses from an integral perspective the relationship between menopause and the brain, a field that she is dedicated to “since 2010, when no one spoke of it”. Italian based in the USA two decades ago, she is professor of Neuroscience at Cornell University, where she runs two programs, the Women’s Brain Initi…

The parliamentarians, determined to lift the taboo around the end of ovarian activity, propose to "ensure adequate care for all", made "impossible" by "social and territorial inequalities".

The report presented this Wednesday, April 9 to the Minister of Health deplores too great deficiencies in the accompaniment of this physiological stage, especially at work, leaving women alone in the face of their symptoms.

MAINTENANCE. In his report submitted today, Stephanie Rist proposes 25 concrete solutions for the management of menopause, a taboo subject which nevertheless concerns 17 million French.

Premenopause is rarely talked about. The change that can come as early as the age of 35 can hit like a bomb. Now the healthcare system must take several steps forward to provide the support that one should be able to expect as a woman in a modern society.