Doctors don't understand the menopause among ethnic minorities - they dismissed my symptoms

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Doctors don't understand the menopause among ethnic minorities - they dismissed my symptoms
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After being dismissed by GPs when she started experiencing premenopausal symptoms in her late thirties, Meera Bhogul is campaigning to close the menopause ethnicity gap kiaelise1 reports

ambassador is of an Afro-Caribbean heritage and remembers growing up unaware of what she’d go through.

“I would see my mum sweating profusely in the kitchen and clearly suffering going through the menopause but she would refuse to acknowledge or admit anything was wrong. She is an amazing and incredibly strong woman but part of a generation who just didn’t talk about these things.” “Language is also a huge barrier for many and in some dialects there isn’t even a word for menopause.”have opened consultations for women in four different languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and Gujarati.

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