If you pay for NHS prescribed HRT medicine 3 or more times in 12 months, an HRT PPC could save you money. This is a specially designed pre-payment certificate just for use when being prescribed HRT. How much does the HRT pre-payment certificate cost? Each item on an NHS prescription usually costs £9.90 (just changed […]
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Not wanting to have sex is just a part of getting older right? Well I disagree! Who made the rules that sex stops when you get old? I still want to be having sex well into my old age, and menopause is certainly not going to stop me. But what if the va-va-voom has gone
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Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause (GSM) is a condition that affects many women, caused by reducing circulating oestrogen in the body. It can also be known as vaginal atrophy or atrophic vaginitis, but it is so much more than just vaginal dryness! It can significantly impact a woman’s quality of life, yet it often goes undiagnosed
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There is so much online at the moment about the menopause and this is awesome – Davina McCall has done a lot to bring this out into the open. But there is still a lot of work to do. I often see women in clinic who are either on the wrong kind of HRT/wrong dose
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I’ve been diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, and I have to say, even with my training as a GP and women’s health specialist, I didn’t know much about this condition. It’s safe to say that it has been a massive learning curve and a higly emotional journey. And it’s not quite over for me yet…
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The multiple benefits of magnesium was something that I started to learn about recently during a fabulous talk given to our community by my nutritionist colleague Natalie Coghlan. You can watch the replay here. Magnesium is an essential mineral that plays a crucial role in our general health and it is particularly helpful for women.
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There is so much online about testosterone for women, but what is it exactly? Here’s what you need to know. What is testosterone? Testosterone is a hormone that people traditionally think just belongs to men, but it doesn’t! Women have it too. In fact, women produce 3-4 more testosterone in their body than oestrogen during
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