Women come to private clinics to get menopausal medicines during the NHS crisis in the NHS

Private menopause clinics have ten times more patients than 18 months ago, as women are desperately trying to get HRT medication.

Experts say many women feel fired NHS Doctors who tell them they are “too young” to go through menopause or misdiagnose them depression.

Many research HRT online and opt for treatment in private clinics due to delays in obtaining prescriptions and waiting about a year for an appointment with an NHS specialist.

One private practice visits 4,000 patients a month – from 300 in just a year and a half.

Doctors are under increasing pressure due to a national shortage of HRT, particularly Oestrogel, which is used by around 30,000 women in the UK to help manage the debilitating symptoms of menopause.

Doctors are under increasing pressure due to a national shortage of HRT, particularly Oestrogel (pictured), which is used by around 30,000 women in the UK to help manage the debilitating symptoms of menopause.

Care problems are an ‘insult’

Freelance book editor Kerri Sharp (pictured) had to pay £ 42 online for a monthly supply of Oestrogel after finding none in 12 pharmacies across London

Freelance book editor Kerri Sharp had to pay £ 42 online for Oestrogel’s monthly supply after finding none at 12 pharmacies in London.

Miss Sharp, 61, who would normally get a prescription for free because she’s over 60, said several pharmacists told her they saw up to 50 women who were prescribed HNZ but couldn’t get it.

She tried at least five online pharmacies before finding one in which she divided the estrogen gel into a package to order.

Ms Sharp of Forest Hill in south-east London said: “These are serious debilitating problems that can affect your daily life.

‘It’s an insult and it needs to be resolved.’

The British Association for Menopause has advised doctors to consider alternative medicines, including Sandrena gel and Lenzetto spray.

The Daily Mail published an HRT manifesto on Saturday calling for change, including mandatory teaching of medical students about menopause and informing women about menopause at NHS health checkups.

Women should ask their GP for a new prescription if they do not have access to medication.

Jane Pangbourne of the HRT Truth Collective said: “GPs are under pressure because they don’t understand menopause and HRT in the sense that they haven’t been trained.

“I don’t blame the doctors at all. In many cases, they have been left hung to dry because they received incorrect information or no information about HRT, so there is additional pressure on them to provide a solution to these poor women.

“The NHS queues are, of course, long for all specialists. The queues for menopausal specialists are sometimes more than a year, so women pay to visit a private specialist, and even in these cases the queue can be up to six months. ‘

A survey of a private menopause online center among 464 women found that 30 percent would consider visiting a private specialist because they feel they do not have access to the care they need at the NHS.

Dr Louise Newson, a menopause specialist, said her 8,000 waiting list was “outrageous for a private clinic”.

She added: ‘Obviously we have reached a crisis point.’ The general practitioner said she was “horrified” that so many women were coming to her clinic because of something “should be properly managed in the NHS”.

In a statement on the website of dr. Alice Scott stated that a private general practitioner clinic has been forced to close the waiting list and is unable to order new patients due to “unprecedented demand”.

Dr. Shirin Lakhani, a women’s health expert, said: “I have noticed a huge increase in demand for patients coming to me because of menopausal symptoms.

“Women are sometimes told that they are too young to go through menopause or that they have no obvious symptoms, but perimenopause can start in women in their 30s, although it is more common between the ages of 40 and 45.

“While many women now find the confidence to talk about their health with their doctor, they find that their symptoms are overlooked or reduced.

“Many have either said it’s a normal part of life and should simply put up with it until the symptoms go away, or they’re prescribed antidepressants to treat the associated symptoms of menopause, not to treat the cause.”

Menopause needs to be treated with “protective HRT” before it “reshapes the brain,” U.S. researchers say.

The study showed that it reduces gray matter, a major component of the central nervous system.