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take a look at the online life of sharon sinclair williams and you will see a woman who is in her prime. but you ll also read of her struggles with symptoms of the menopause. she started to use a hormone replacement therapy gel, estrogel. it was helping her. but then, the supply ran out. i was about to have a meltdown because i d just been on a new hrt regime that had really made me feel lots, lots better and i could finally cope again. and ijust couldn t think how i was going to get by without it. she ended up driving to a car park by a motorway to rendezvous with a woman she d onlyjust met on instagram, so that they could swap medicines. she brought hrt patches, the woman brought gel. we pulled in here, she said, i ll be the one with the red carrier bag . so i brought my patches, we did a swap and we actually stood here and chatted for 45 minutes about our stories. and did the two of you think
to yourself while you are sat here, what are we doing, this is a bit ridiculous? we did, we were like, what has this come to? because i sort of thought, could i get in trouble for this? the royal college of gps advises against giving anyone else your prescription medicines, saying it carries a potential medical risk. the british menopause society says women experiencing difficulty in obtaining estrogel should consider equivalent alternative hrt preparations. before taking the gel, sharon had suffered from severe depression, brought on by the menopause. i was having intrusive thoughts, i was planning things. you were having suicidal thoughts? yeah, yeah. and my kids know this and it s awful to think that they know that their mum was. just couldn t see a way out of feeling so joyless. because that s what it does, it sucks the joy out of you. over the last year, women have been
the headlines on bbc news. some asylum seekers will be sent on a one way flight to rwanda. russia s flagship vessel in the black sea has been seriously damaged. russia says a fire on board caused an explosion, but ukraine claims it hit the ship with missiles. a record number of people are waiting for routine hospital treatment in england, as nhs leaders warn easter could be as bad as most winters for the health service. the menopause was often something people were afraid to talk about but as more women share their stories, prescriptions for hrt have more than doubled in england over the last five years. manufacturers are struggling to keep up with the growing demand, and as zoe conway reports, some women are now going to extreme measures to get the medication they rely on. take a look at the online life of sharon sinclair williams
yourselves while you are sat here, what are we doing, this is a bit ridiculous? we did, we were like, what has this come to? because i sort of thought, could i get in trouble for this? the royal college of gps advises against giving anyone else your prescription medicines, saying it carries a potential medical risk. the british menopause society says women experiencing difficulty in obtaining oestrogel should consider equivalent alternative hrt preparations. before taking the gel, sharon had suffered from severe depression, brought on by the menopause. i was having intrusive thoughts, i was planning things. you were having suicidal thoughts? yeah, yeah. and my kids know this and it s awful to think that they know that their mum was. just couldn t see a way out of feeling so joyless. because that s what it does, it sucks the joy out of you. over the last year, women have been speaking out about the menopause ever more passionately