![]() ![]() “It’s, ‘you’re in the perimenopausal stage, live with it’ … Doctors just fob you off, ‘oh it’s your age’, or, ‘it’s a bit of anxiety, so your pain is heightened’. ![]() Sue Loncaric, founder of Women Living Well After 50. “He didn’t even want to have the discussion,” Anderson says. She also has fibromyalgia, a syndrome which causes widespread pain through her muscles, and adenomyosis, which results in heavy, excruciating menstrual bleeds – both conditions that can affect women in midlife.ĭesperate for some relief, she worked up the courage to ask her GP about menopausal hormone therapy. The mother and grandmother, from Pakenham on Melbourne’s south-eastern fringe, is perimenopausal dealing with severe joint pain, brain fog and night sweats. Karen Anderson, 51, says she has felt dismissed by her GP over her symptoms. It’s very disillusioning,” Anderson says. ![]() “I was wondering why hadn’t any doctors mentioned it to me? I was very pissed off. When Karen Anderson stumbled upon a menopause support group on Facebook in June, she learnt for the first time that hormone therapy is typically the best way to treat symptoms of the natural transition that all women go through in their 40s or 50s. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]()
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