Menopause

Stories relating to the menopause

‘You don’t have to feel like this’: Emilie Pine on starting HRT

The author of the memoir Notes to Self writes a personal essay about her experience of perimenopause

I’m not against HRT but are we once again medicating women for being angry?

It is horribly regressive to say that all women lose their minds in midlife. Did you know that men have hormones too?

Anne Gildea: ‘I’m 58 and had two get-your-affairs-in order moments. Now I feel like a lucky person’

The comedian Anne Gildea on love, health and not giving up

HRT and younger women: ‘It’s really essential for their long-term health. If cost is a barrier that can have consequences’

The Irish Times reported this week that Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly is advancing plans to make HRT freely available for all those who need it. Experts explain the financial burden facing women seeking HRT

Menopause and HRT: ‘I never had a hot flush. I was just losing myself. By 47 or 48 the weight had really come on’

As the Minister for Health confirms plans for free hormone replacement therapy, five women share their experiences of menopause and medication

Eleanor Mills: Women aged 45-74 feeling ‘on the scrap heap: you’re not, you’re amazing’

When Eleanor Mills was made redundant on the cusp of 50, she turned misfortune into opportunity

Drug could extend women’s fertility by five years, study suggests

Rapamycin can be repurposed to slow ovaries from ageing and is safe for younger women, say scientists

Menopause support must tread a fine line between awareness and stigma

More employers are offering help but they need to avoid the risk of ‘meno-washing’

Menopause: ‘We need to swing the pendulum to the middle and normalise it’

New series from the Lancet journal challenges recent trend to medicalize the experience

Playwright Marie Jones: ‘My mother told me there was no such thing as menopause in her day’

As Women on the Verge of HRT returns to the stage, the writer remains a champion of ‘middle-aged nobodies’

‘I always say the five main pillars of health are checking yourself, diet, sleep, exercise and orgasms’

Arguably, there are five main pillars of health: Checking yourself, diet, sleep, exercise and orgasms

Something happened to me in the menopause. Perhaps I’m broken. Perhaps I’m fixed

When the pandemic and menopause hit me simultaneously, I found myself in a place where I could no longer run away from myself

How menopause changes the brain and three things you need to know

Symptoms of menopause, such as lack of sleep and hot flushes, have also been linked to dementia

Navigating Your Hormones: ‘It’s so important to educate and empower women with open conversations’

Experts will speak at an educational event on hormonal health for women in the Johnstown Estate Hotel on Sunday

Claire Dinsmore on perimenopause: ‘Make this phase your power years’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

Lack of menopause policies in most workplaces an issue for women workers, finds union survey

World Menopause Day poll finds almost half of women surveyed had been forced to take time off work due to menstruation or menopause

Hot flash trackers and pelvic floor exercisers: the rise of femtech for menopause

A wave of new tech products and supplements is being developed to help menopausal and perimenopausal women, and Irish start-ups are getting in on the act

Summer fiction: Have you seen her? by Sandra Kavanagh

For Rose, The Change was presenting not as one cataclysmic event, but as a series of mercurial, nuanced changes

Róisín Ingle: I didn’t have a period for 240 days and then one arrived like Storm Betty on steroids

When The Lethargy strikes I batten down the hatches. I don’t answer the phone or take any notice of the knocks on the door

Cecelia Ahern on perimenopause: ‘This hot angry woman was coming out’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

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