Dr Caoimhe Hartley

It's really tough for women.

And then they're trying to figure that out themselves and like wade through all of this misinformation.

It's really hard.

I would feel that's what the complex menopause clinics are for.

So there's one in Galway, there's one in Cork, there's three in Dublin, there's one in Limerick.

So we cover most of the country by catchment area.

And there are women, like it's really difficult.

They're often left out of the HRT conversation.

All this buzz about like, well, if you don't go on HRT, you'll get a heart attack and then you'll fall over and break your hip because you'll have osteoporosis.

And you'll also have dementia.

Yeah.

So they're left out of that conversation.

Or if you're symptomatic, I mean, it's easy, just take HRT.

Like, well, I can't.

So there's that.

But then on top of that, you've come through breast cancer, a diagnosis, the breast cancer treatment.

And it's a bit of a kick in the teeth then to be on the other side of that and find, okay, I'm okay, but my quality of life is shot.

Which again, is not everybody who goes through breast cancer treatment, but it's the patients we're seeing because that's why they're coming into us.

And I think there's sometimes a feeling of like the oncology teams who are brilliant and are brilliant at their job, but maybe don't have the time and resources

to look outside of the specific, the cancer treatment that they're part of.