Dr Caoimhe Hartley

It's a bit like saying, I look at my 11-year-olds now, almost 11, and think...

okay I can see like puberty is knocking on the door here I can't tell when they're going to be like when are they finished with that like so there's no way of predicting and it's also a very difficult thing to pin down as a point in time you can't say well that's it now I woke up today and I'm not

where I'm not menopausal anymore.

But I think, yeah, going off statistics, seven to 10 years is average for hot flushes and night sweats from when they start, not from when your periods stop.

But seven to 10 years is average to be symptomatic with night sweats.

I don't know, cognition may be similar.

Maybe brain fog would be in the same kind of realm.

You have a small percentage of women who are just symptomatic forever, which is no fun.

But they're often the women who, if they're getting more benefit than risk from their HRT, I think it's really appropriate to stay in their HRT for life.

Yeah.

But that's why I don't think everyone should be on HRT for life.

I don't think you should just with a brush sort of make a sweeping statement and say everyone should be on it for life.

But you hear that occasionally bandied around.

We are hearing that a lot.

But we don't do that about any medication.

There's very few medications we say that should be for everyone and forever.

Like it's massively individual.

And a lot of misinformation.

Yeah.

And so I like podcasts are brilliant.