MenopauseTalk

Getting HRT:

Understanding Your Options and Knowing How Long to Stay On It!

Menopause Is Not the Problem. Being Denied Care Is.

Menopause is already a profound physiological and psychological transition. Hormones shift, sleep fractures, cognition feels unreliable, emotions intensify, joints ache, confidence wobbles. Yet for Black and South Asian women, menopause is rarely permitted to exist as a legitimate medical event. It is filtered instead through disbelief, misinterpretation and systemic minimisation.

The data now confirms what women have been saying quietly for years. Analysis of prescription records covering 1.85 million women in the UK shows that while 23.3 percent of white women are prescribed Hormone Replacement Therapy, only around 5 to 5.2 percent of Black women and 6 to 6.2 percent of Asian women receive the same treatment.

Is it Hot Flushes or Hypertension Beyond Menopause?

As women transition through menopause, symptoms like sudden heat, palpitations or dizziness are common. But here is the critical question, is it a hot flush or could it be high blood pressure (hypertension)?

This distinction matters, especially because cardiovascular disease is now the leading cause of death in post-menopausal women worldwide (World Health Organisation, 2021).

Here are 5 key points with data and evidence:

1. Hot Flushes vs. Blood Pressure Surges