How about some menopause research?

Let's hear it for women's health and BIG shade to decades of ignoring it (I say through a raging hot flash). If all of these menopause symptoms happened to men, we'd have knowledge and treatments for them already.

/end rant

Talking to my doc in a few weeks about trying HRT. We've been talking about it for months but I'm at the end of my rope with the hot flashes and the pain and the brain fog. I can't work, can't sleep, can't move, can't take it anymore.