by Amanda Cassidy
16th May 2022
16th May 2022
A shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs has seen thousands of Irish women left without life-changing medication. But is the lack of urgency to solve this demand a measure of a wider-societal problem? Amanda Cassidy reports
“I thought I was having a stroke as I lost my words,” explains Loretta Dignam, mum of two from Dublin. “I ended up in A&E because of my focal migraines, which I developed in perimenopause, returned. To rule out stroke I had to have a an ECG, carotid artery scans…I lost my words. It was so bad, I couldn’t get my words out.” Loretta, like many other Irish women was recently forced to switch hormone products...
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