Esther McCarthy: 'Menopause doesn’t wait for June — and neither should we'

Can we trust the news this week that the delayed scheme will come into effect on June 1?

Esther McCarthy: "HRT can cost between €30 and €70 a month and us women are still footing the bill." Picture: Emily Quinn.

I've said it before and I’ll say it again. Don’t send a man to do a woman’s job. The husband has come back from the chemist with the wrong HRT patch. I have learned the hard way that not all patches are created equal and had specifically gone back to my GP to get a different prescription for the ‘good’ patch.

The one that suits me. The one that doesn’t give me a rash. The one that stays in place and doesn’t peel off mid-meeting migrating to regions unchartered making
getting undressed in the evening a potential biohazard, with the possibility of oestrogen patches flying in all directions and ending up somewhere it shouldn’t — like the dog’s arse — and then we’re wondering why he’s tearing up at the fibre broadband ad and
nesting in the airing cupboard.