Over the last two weeks a group of women called
#Pausitivity are starting to make a difference to other women who are experiencing menopausal symptoms or will experience menopause in the future.
Their campaign is simple - to bring awareness to the symptoms of menopause so that all those conditions that pop up can be recognised as being part of the menopause process and can be discussed with doctors. And the way they are doing it is to ask you to print off a copy of a simple A4 poster and display it where you know other women will see it: GP surgeries, community centres, women’s groups, gyms, clubs.
There are no publicly available notices in GP surgeries that can give you at-a-glance information like there is for other conditions. And this is not a ‘leaflet’ to give you advice on how to deal with your conditions. Simply a list that may alert you to something you wouldn’t have thought could be menopause related.
We are starting to talk about
#Menopause a lot more but there’s still wor...