Sonya Lovell

Stoked to share my personal story for this article highlighting Biolae and their “Not-So-Dry-July” campaign! No more clutching of pearls and sniggers. Women deserve honest conversations, to be taken seriously and the highest quality of care at EVERY appointment. Well done to the team at Biolae, check out their new product “Fluvadin Plus”, it’s a game changer. ❤️ 🦪 ❤️

Following the stunning announcement by AstraZeneca that Zoladex 3.6mg would be pulled from Australia, this morning they have made a U-Turn.

This comes after significant criticism from advocates, patients and a Change.org petition calling for urgent action gathered more than 42,000 signatures.

AstraZeneca has today announced it will supply Zoladex indefinitely to those whose doctors determine there are no other suitable treatments available. A massive win for patients. 👏 👏

🥱 If you’re exhausted, foggy, flat, and you’ve chalked it up to menopause, you might be right. You might also be dealing with sleep apnea but almost nobody is checking you for it.

Doctors are trained to look for loud snoring. Women don’t always present that way. So it gets missed, misdiagnosed, or brushed off as “just menopause”, and you keep white-knuckling through days on broken sleep.

If this sounds familiar, ask your GP for a referral to a sleep study. Don’t wait for them to bring it up first.

Tag a friend who needs to see this. 👇🏼

For six years, I was afraid of oestrogen. Because I was told my ER+ breast cancer meant HRT was never going to be an option. So I stopped asking, until the day I learned the evidence was far more nuanced than I had been told.

You also deserve an explanation, a discussion of the evidence, and a supportive and informed clinician willing to look at you and your whole picture. I wrote the article I wish I’d had been able to refer to back then.

Comment READ and I’ll send you the link.

Today I was stoked to be featured as one of six women in Sunday Life who are changing menopause care in Australia. And I’m genuinely so glad this cancer survivorship conversation is getting the recognition it deserves.

Breast cancer put me into medically induced menopause. No conversation was offered to prepare me for what that would actually mean and no plan was in place for what care I would need after treatment ended. I worked it out alone, the hard way and closing that gap in care is exactly why the support I offer today exists.

Getting to talk about that publicly, in a piece that treats menopause as worth serious coverage rather than a punchline, means so much. Thank you for including me Jane Rocca and thank you to everyone who’s trusted me with their own stories along the way.

DM me if you’d like to know more about the work I do and support I offer or pop onto the link in my bio.