Menopause and Perimenopause

• All 4, ‘Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause’
• Davina McCall and Dr Louise Newson (@menopause_doctor) on Instagram - interview video about how HRT is less dangerous and more beneficial than people realise
• The Balance App - for logging symptoms, and also contains useful links and articles
• If you want HRT and anticipate GP resistance, check this guide on Louise Newson’s site: Easy HRT Prescribing guide for GPs
• Info about menopause, hormones and breast cancer (often HRT is problematic for breast cancer patients because of something to do with breast cancer and oestrogen receptors, which means that oestrogen can be bad? I might have got that wrong!)
  • HRT and breast cancer
• My tweet about it all
• Guardian article by Kate Muir about her experience of menopause