Shortage in menopause medicine forcing women to swap drugs with strangers

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The drugs are a form of hormone therapy used to treat symptoms of menopause, which can be debilitating for women.

"I was really starting to panic thinking I'm going to feel rubbish if I don't get hold of this stuff pretty soon.

"Many of them were even on back order. One chemist I went to said even if they had any they wouldn't have been able to give it to me because they had so many people on the waiting list."Ms Macken is one of thousands of women affected by a shortage of certain HRT products - which manufacturers, and the government, say is caused by a surge in demand coupled with supply problems of raw ingredients and delays caused by the pandemic.

"Women are going and trading in car parks saying, 'Oh well, I'll give you a pump of this if I can have some HRT patches.' It shouldn't be like that."The current supply issues come as an extra blow for menopausal women after the government recently delayed plans to reduce the cost of HRT prescriptions in England until at least 2023."You know what's going to happen? Mum is going to go without her HRT - she's not going to not have the heating on.

 

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Why is the NHS doling out medication for something that is not a medical condition but just part of a woman's natural life cycle Just another example of NHS waste

Heavily armed Russian troops beating defenseless Ukrainian women ... Oh no, hang on, it's heavily armed Israeli troops beating defenseless Palestinian women. That's been going on for decades and weirdly doesn't get the same media attention, does it?

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The word “shortage” will now ring so loud - food, energy, - because of our bad choices - one place there won’t be any for a foreseeable future is weapons and arms - because we chose to support arms manufacturers over diplomacy and laid the ground work to go to war

What is menopause medicine ?

Maybe you at Sky should not have supported the Covid response for the very elderly, making many more healthy younger people get ill.

Brexit!!!

They are not called women..This is an offensive outdated term. They are called cis women.. Where is your inclusivity?

Didnt the shots from stranger's work a treat already..

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