{"id":16952,"date":"2022-12-29T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=16952"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:49:41","slug":"three-amazing-young-women-share-their-experiences-of-premature-menopause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=16952","title":{"rendered":"Three amazing young women share their experiences of premature menopause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the BBC news website three amazing young women share their experiences of premature menopause.<\/p>\n<p>When I speak to rooms of people in person (writes Diane Danzebrink)\u00a0 I often speak about how, for some, they will experience menopause before their mothers. I can often see the shock on peoples faces as this information lands but it is the lived experience for some girls and young women. Currently in the U.K approximately 1 in 100 under 40, 1 in 1000 under 30 and 1 in 10,000 under 20 will experience premature menopause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/women.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16954\" src=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/women-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/women-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/women-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/women.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Premature menopause can happen for a variety of reasons and those affected deserve to be given that diagnosis with great care and compassion which is not always the case. They should also have ongoing access to both medical and emotional support, also sadly often not the case.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to ensure better menopause care for everybody we must all raise our voices to ensure that we are the generation to #makemenopausematter.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to hear that Emma, who is featured, wears her #makemenopausematter campaign T shirt to work to start conversations with her clients.<\/p>\n<p>Raising awareness, supporting and signposting in our personal and professional relationships is vital to ensure that everybody gets the help and support that they need and nobody is left to suffer in silence.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-63888888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for the BBC story in full and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/p0dnx428\/menopause-and-me-too-young-to-feel-so-old\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to see the clip on BBC iPlayer &#8211; and please sign and share the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/make-menopause-matter-in-healthcare-the-workplace-and-education-makemenopausematter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#makemenopausematter<\/a> campaign petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three amazing young women share their experiences of premature menopause on the BBC Website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16952"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16973,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions\/16973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}