{"id":340458,"date":"2026-03-21T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340458\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:23:11","slug":"how-new-hong-kong-menopause-support-group-aims-to-help-women-through-difficult-life-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340458\/","title":{"rendered":"How new Hong Kong menopause support group aims to help women through difficult life stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong women navigating menopause have often felt the need to \u201csoldier on\u201d, their hot flushes dismissed by others \u2013 and themselves \u2013 as stress, their mood swings blamed on \u201chaving teenagers\u201d and their fatigue chalked up to ageing. But a new non-profit organisation aims to put a stop to that.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Hong Kong Menopause Society (THKMS), which will officially launch on March 28, aims to boost awareness and understanding of perimenopause and menopause issues, both for the women who have them and for the people who love and care for them, including their spouses and children.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The society was co-founded by three doctors in the city \u2013 Dr Rebecca Lau, Dr Zara Chan and Dr Laurena Law \u2013 and its membership is open to all Hong Kong doctors. The co-founders aim for it to provide a supportive and educational forum and to build a community to normalise these transitional life stages.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMenopause ripples through every corner of society,\u201d Lau says. \u201cWhen women endure urinary infections or painful intimacy, it strains marriages. I\u2019ve had husbands sit in my clinic, relieved to hear: \u2018She\u2019s not rejecting you \u2013 she\u2019s physically uncomfortable, exhausted, irritable. This is treatable.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Children feel it, too. Some have told her: \u201cMum\u2019s angry all the time \u2013 we argue now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Menopause symptoms range from hot flushes to joint pain to digestive problems. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8b8a26a4-d68b-43fc-979c-094bb3602917_c798c665.jpg\" title=\"Menopause symptoms range from hot flushes to joint pain to digestive problems. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Menopause symptoms range from hot flushes to joint pain to digestive problems. Photo: ShutterstockWhen mothers navigate <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3217561\/how-cope-depression-menopause-transition-also-know-perimenopause-plus-expert-insight-other-symptoms?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">perimenopause<\/a> alongside their children\u2019s pre-teen hormonal shifts, households can become tense, dinner tables silent and hugs strained, with everyone walking on eggshells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong women navigating menopause have often felt the need to \u201csoldier on\u201d, their hot flushes dismissed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[56463,61178,64943,10850,181970,181968,181969,209,134,4431,181966,181971,12932,111,139,69,7503,1886,181972,181967,181973],"class_list":["post-340458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-antidepressants","tag-benzodiazepines","tag-bone-density","tag-cardiovascular-health","tag-dr-laurena-law","tag-dr-rebecca-lau","tag-dr-zara-chan","tag-group","tag-health","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-menopause-society","tag-hormonal-shifts","tag-menopause","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-perimenopause","tag-support","tag-the-m-factor-before-the-pause-perimenopause","tag-thkms","tag-womens-health-initiative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}