Useful Resources
Understanding Menopause (Booklet)
Welcome to the Menopause Support guide to
understanding menopause.
Menopause will directly affect approximately half
the world’s population. If that includes you, this booklet is to help you understand
more about it and to enable you to make informed
choices about how you manage your menopause.
Menopause can indirectly affect the other half of
the population too: partners, family, friends and
colleagues. We hope that the information here
will also be helpful for those supporting somebody
experiencing menopause.
Rock My Menopause (Website)
Rock My Menopause is the public-facing campaign of the Primary Care Women’s Health Forum (PCWHF), a group of 10,000 healthcare professionals with a special interest in women’s health.
Their aim is to equip people with the expert menopause information and support they need to become more menopause aware.
Women's Health Concern (Website)
Women's Health Concern (WHC) established in 1972 and the patient arm of the BMS since 2012. WHC provides a confidential, independent service to advise, inform and reassure women about their gynaecological, sexual and post reproductive health.
Menopause Matters (Website)
Menopausematters.co.uk is an award winning, independent website providing up-to-date, accurate information about the menopause, menopausal symptoms and treatment options. Here you will find information on what happens leading up to, during and after the menopause, what the consequences can be, what you can do to help and what treatments are available.
Menopause Matters Questionnaire (Website)
The Greene Scale provides a brief measure of menopause symptoms.
It can be used to assess changes in different symptoms, before and after menopause treatment.
Three main areas are measured:
1. Psychological.
2. Physical.
3. Vasomotor.
Go to the Menopause Matters website
Wellspring Health (Website)
Wellspring Health outlines the benefits risks treatments and follow-up of using HRT.
Go to wellspring+ website
NICE Menopause Guidelines - Information for the public (Website)
NICE guidelines provide advice on the care and support that should be offered to people who use health and care services.
This information explains the advice about menopause that is set out in NICE guideline NG23.
Go to NICE Menopause Website
NHS Menopause: Things you can do (website)
Lifestyle changes to help menopause and perimenopause such as eating exercising and looking after your mental wellbeing.
Go to the NHS website
The Daisy Network (Website)
Daisy Network is a dedicated to providing information and support to women diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, also known as Premature Menopause.
Go to Daisy Network website
Alternatives to HRT (PDF)
In most people, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is an effective treatment for menopausal symptoms with the benefits often being greater than the side effects. However, if you prefer not to take hormonal treatment, have symptoms which have not responded to HRT, or have been advised by your doctor to avoid use (for conditions such as, hormone sensitive cancers, a recent blood clot, unstable epilepsy or lupus or porphyria), this leaflet provides information on lifestyle, herbal and non-hormonal treatment options that you may wish to consider.
Complementary therapies can take several weeks to be effective and need daily use for the benefits to be felt. Some can be as effective as HRT but you may need to trial a few to find the right combination that suits your particular symptoms.