Glasgow Gynaecology & Menopause Service

30/07/2025

22/12/2024

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed its most serious warning – a so-called black-box warning – on a drug used to relieve menopausal hot flashes.

03/12/2024

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20/10/2024

Help from locals would be appreciated

🚨 🚨 🚨 We are NOT closing! We are very much here and ready to help with your physiotherapy ailments.

our little town can be the most wonderful place when you need support but can also be sadly guilty of a random rumour and it's been brought to my attention that people have heard we are closing. I can only imagine this is due to us closing our previous premises.

NEW HOME 🏡
We have moved townhouse physiotherapy to a self contained outbuilding outside our house in Ryanview crescent. Both Gareth and I are fully open to online booking and here to help with a range of appointments times throughout the week.

We now have a single treatment space which is why you may now see me working elsewhere at times to maximise how many people we can see at once

I would hugely appreciate any help from other businesses to share this post to ensure people know we are still very much here. We only won't be if people don't book to come to us!

Also any patients who have attended at our lovely new premises and wish to share any insight for others would be hugely appreciated .

Thank you 🙏🏻

Booking link 👇🏻to secure appointments.

https://townhouse-physiotherapy.au1.cliniko.com/bookings?business_id=78551

18/10/2024

Fantastic article in todays Hlasgow Hersld by Alison Macbeth

18/10/2024

Food for thought on world menopause day

17/09/2024

Great service in Glasgow.

02/08/2024

Who is using a fan at the moment ?🪭 🪭

The hot flush, or flash, is well known as the classic menopausal symptom and affects 60–85% of menopausal women. Hot flushes and sweats are called vasomotor symptoms and vary immensely in both their severity and duration; for many women, they occur occasionally and do not cause much distress, but for about 20% they can be severe and can cause significant interference with work, sleep and quality of life.

Women are affected by vasomotor symptoms on average for about 2 years but, for about 10%, symptoms can continue for more than 15 years. Hot flushes usually last 3–5 minutes and are thought to be caused by a change in the temperature-controlling part of the brain.Normally, there is a daily pattern of rises and falls in your body temperature, being lowest at about 3am and highest in the early evening.

These small changes are not normally noticed, but a menopausal woman may flush with every temperature rise, whether these are normal changes or not – for example, moving between areas of different temperature or having a hot drink

– because of a change in the setting of the temperature control centre in your brain; your body thinks that it is overheating even when it isn’t. To try to cool your body down, a variety of chemical reactions cause the blood vessels in the skin to open up, giving the sensation of a rush of heat, and sweat glands release sweat to dissipate heat. It is believed that the changes in various hormone levels that occur around the time of the menopause, lead to the change in the setting of the temperature control centre, but the exact underlying mechanism is still unclear.

Other factors that can also cause flushes include being overweight, alcohol, excess caffeine, spicy foods, monosodium glutamate and some medications. Eating a healthy diet can be helpful.

02/08/2024

Menopause hormone therapy can be an amazing supplement to homegrown endogenous hormones because of its biology. It can be life-restoring, save relationships, and improve health. But I think it's important to make sure informed choices are based on accuracy.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) also known as Menopause Hormone Therapy (MHT), as prescribed by the NHS in the UK does not grow on trees and neither do its direct ingredients. Therefore it is not 'of nature' and should not be referred to as natural. (This includes others calling progesterone cream to be natural, to be clear). Neither should these medications be referred to as 'sourced from natural ingredients', because that wouldn't be completely true either when several laboratory chemical processes are involved before it becomes a hormone suitable for use by humans.
The source ingredient that many body-identical (and bioidentical) hormone drugs are made from is disogenin. Disognenin is an important natural pharmaceutical active ingredient found in wild yams.
Human bodies can't convert disogenin to a hormone.
Disogenin must be removed from the wild yam before it can be converted to a usable hormone structure. The wild yams are not nestled in the foothills of some exotic location and gently squeezed with aged-oak presses to remove the disogenin. It is first extracted and then converted by large-scale chemical processes, before turning into hormones. This now makes the synthesised exiting compound not natural, and the bad actors are clinging to a thread to refer to it as 'made from plant sources'.
My advice is to choose MHT because of how it functions to relieve symptoms plus your personal risk-benefit ratio, not because you think it's natural.
Read more on my blog using the linkinbio

02/08/2024

26/07/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3gd27vzx0yo

Karen Farquharson, from Aberdeen, said she hopes women will be treated more fairly in the workplace.

13/06/2024

It's our birthday! If you'd like to see the history of menopause cafe you will find it here: https://www.menopausecafe.net/our-history/

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If you'd like to volunteer for Menopause Cafe to help make menopause part of everyday conversation then we'd love to hear from you.
We especially need people that could write funding applications/can approach companies for funding etc..

Menopause Cafe is a charity and relies entirely on donations, grants, sponsorship and funding.

Please contact Heather - menopausecafe@outlook.com if you can help