Menopause-ing your life?

Menopause seems to be everywhere at the moment, am I right? 

You can’t really move for people talking, books being released and programs on TV about it.

So why then, are we as women still finding it so hard to deal with?

As someone who is 99% sure to be going through peri menopause right now, this is a topic close to my heart.

I am surrounded by females either in peri- or full blown menopause and I myself have tried vitamins to help, got the well known Davina book and regularly view social media posts and articles about the topic.

The biggest question I have and what angers me the most?

Why on earth are we as women not taken seriously and why is our menopause care and journey dependent on our postcode? 

I’ve brought up the idea of peri menopause a few times now at my doctors surgery and I have had one blood test (which we know can’t necessarily show levels for peri menopause) and nothing more has come of it.

Despite explaining my Mum went through menopause early and being told it’s hereditary it’s still seemingly gone in one ear and out the other.

I’ve sat and spoke to so many friends who have felt lost, keep forgetting things, get such an awful rage, their periods are all over the place and have really bad anxiety to name but a few symptoms. And we’re all still just putting up with and getting by.

Or in some cases people are resorting to going private and paying themselves to see specialists to finally get heard.

Yet others you read about who live elsewhere have specialist menopause doctors/surgeries who listen to them, guide them and provide what they need. Or they test out various routes so that said female can find what she needs.

How come when the topic is now so prevalent the care is still not there?

Does it cost too much?

Is it because this impacts women not men? 

What do we need to do to be heard and taken seriously?

Please let me know your experiences and if anyone has any tips or positive stories of how they got the attention needed please do share!