We are excited to announce our menopause party Midlife and Menopause on November 20th and we have an even bigger line-up for you this year. Our special guest speaker Victoria Hardy puts the fun into menopause with her fabulous book My Menopause, My Journal, My Rules.
Midlife and Menopause is the essential night out for anyone aged 40+ entering into perimenopause or experiencing menopause. Learn from menopause experts, discover help available and connect with other women.
With more symptoms than anyone can seemingly count, women are often suffering a cluster of symptoms during mid-life. The menopause and perimenopause are a daunting time for many – no wonder when there are so many myths and misconceptions. But increasingly, women are seeing it as a new chapter in their lives, and embracing this time as their ‘new spring’.
Our panel of experts will help unravel some the symptoms and be on hand to answer your questions. The panel will include some top local specialists – menopause doctors, fitness, hair, skin and nutrition experts will be ready to answer your questions. Plus there will be demos from some of our favourite health, beauty and fashion specialists.
- Stylist Helen Canning Ford will talk through fashion options to suit your changing body.
- Dermalogica skin care will be on hand to demo products that will address skin issues.
- Gina Conway will talk about your menopause hair and how you can combat hair thinning.
- Plus Victoria Hardy will be signing copies her book, My Menopause, My journey, My rules!
Tickets will sell out quickly. Last year’s event sold out early so make sure you get your tickets now.
Your evening includes glass of sparkling on arrival or soft drink and canapes.
Early bird tickets available: £30.00
Book your tickets now for just £40.00.
Last year over 40 women joined our menopause evening, enjoyed a glass of Albury sparkling English wine, Canapes, talks from Dr Naomi Potter Gina Conway with the Glowwa hair growth treatment. Plus a goody bag stuffed full of menopause products and a host of laughter, here’s what what happened…
Key takeaways from our menopause event
HRT is the gold standard
But it is not for everyone and won’t cure everything. There’s a whole toolkit at our disposal, including herbal medicines, reflexology, acupuncture, cognitive behaviour therapy, and lifestyle changes.
HRT can be complex
It is not simply a case of popping a pill. There are many preparations, including gels, sprays and patches, and it may take trial and error to find a regime that suits you. For example, some women find that oestrogen gives them a boost, progestogen
makes them sleepy.
Fears over breast cancer and HRT
The scare stories of HRT causing breast cancer was based on flawed data. The risk is small. Increasing oestrogen levels in tissues that are younger is actually better so don’t feel you need to wait to take HRT.
You can’t really test for the menopause
You have reached menopause when you have gone 12 months without a period. Perimenopause can last for years before that and your menopausal symptoms some time after. Testing hormone levels can be complex and only provides a snapshot in time. If you are over 45 and have typical symptoms you don’t need tests before starting HRT but if symptoms are suggestive of something else it would be investigated.
When should you come off HRT?
We don’t have safety data for people who have taken HRT for 30 or 40 years. But we do know it makes people feel better, protects against osteoporosis and can protect heart health. We’re likely to see an increasing number of women of this generation who stay on it forever. You can lower your dose gradually and see how it impacts your symptoms.
This is your second spring
The symptoms, of which there are countless, from hot flushes and low libido right through to anxiety and terrible brain fog, can be debilitating but there is so much at our disposal to help. And it can also be a positive time, having shaken off the worries that plagued us in our 20s and 30s, we can really own this.
Time & Leisure menopause coverage:
Thanks to Gina Conway Salon and Spa for hosting, Deborah Albert for the great photographs. I
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