flushes..

When Sarah Askwith began to develop hot flushes in her mid-40s, she knew what to do. The physiotherapist and pilates instructor had heard about the wondrous effects of hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, a common and effective treatment…

It is one of the more distressing symptoms of the menopause that women rarely talk about.And for Helen Barnard, the impact was so great that it left her, as she puts it today, ‘a shell of myself’.It was three years ago that Helen, 56,…

The woman in my clinic looks vaguely irritated. The 54-year-old mother-of-three – let's call her Sarah – has come to see me about the bladder infections that have been plaguing her for months.She's tried antibiotics, cranberry…