Where is the research and the money for helping women with menopause??

Hi, @gravity3. It sounds as though you have some concerns about the need for more research and discussion on the topic of menopause, rather than silence.

@boo55 @jt67 @madison2023 @sue417 @constantinos @celia16 @sophie46 may have some input about menopause, any symptoms they face/faced and whether they have felt menopause has been sufficiently addressed in the public realm.

@gravity3, I noted you mentioned in another thread that you dealt with menopause a number of years ago. What were your most bothersome symptoms? Did you find anything helped with them?

Thank you
I should have included that with the recognition that the women's health initiative study is flawed and doctors have used it to make treatment plans for menopausal women. As a 76 year old woman I also recognize that if that if the flaws in that study has been discovered much earlier my health picture might have been much different. It com s down to so little money being allocated for the study of menopause and women's health in general. The PBS documentary on menopause called The M Factor Shredding the silence on menopause does an outstanding job of addressing these issues.
To answer your other question, I became menopausal at age 38. I didn't have symptoms. I simply had my period one month and thereafter none.

I did face menopause many years ago, almost forty years. At the age of forty I had an ovary removed, uterus and cervix. I was told that these were all pre-cancerous. My other ovary was removed when I was thirty, due to being covered in cysts, which had burst. The symptoms after the removal was tiredness and aching body. When I was given hormone replacement I felt much better.