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An unidentified woman applies a patch under her shirt to her abdomen.

Frances Rodger setting a table in a park, location and date unknown.

"Initially there were some branches who were very interested…but there was equally some complete ignoring of the fact that we were running an event to try and help educate our community about what (menopause) is,"
she said.

"If it was a man's problem, it would have been sorted out a long time ago,"
Dr Fealy said.

Dr Callum Fealy

"Within two weeks she was off everything and back to her old self, after two years lost in the wilderness,"
Dr Fealy said.

"It came in waves, and it became crying spells, and then brain fog, which was difficult."

White box of medication sitting on wood table.

"I don't have any ill feelings towards the GP, but I feel like you're already stressed, and then you have to go and present a case to someone who is infinitely more knowledgeable than you and beg."

"They feel like they're being gaslit by the medical system,"
she said.

Dr Sheila Cook standing in an examination room at her practice, Toowoomba, QLD, September 2024.

"We really have a whole generation of GPs and specialists who haven't had access to that training."

An Australian senator in a red jacket.

"I found that the rage part of menopause isn't really discussed a lot,"
she said.

Frances Rodger and her husband Ed, and their cat in a selfie photo, Tamworth, 2024.

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