{"id":791652,"date":"2026-10-04T12:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791652\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:06:55","slug":"womans-fight-for-nhs-breast-reduction-after-menopause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791652\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s fight for NHS breast reduction after menopause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Howard, from West Lavington in Wiltshire, says her breasts are now so large, she has to use medicated talc under them to prevent rashes, also washing them &#8220;two or three times a day&#8221; because they smell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like many others, Howard, who works as a horticulturist, says because of her breasts she also finds exercise painful and uncomfortable, making it difficult to stay active.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When she is out and about in public, she says she is regularly harassed because of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I get fat-shamed in the street, people shout stupid jokes, lewd comments about them,&#8221; she describes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finding the pain and discomfort too much, Howard says she visited her GP to ask about breast reduction surgery, but was told there was &#8220;no chance&#8221; she would qualify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is now considering private breast reduction surgery, but says the estimated \u00a36,000 &#8211; \u00a39,000 cost is daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard, from West Lavington in Wiltshire, says her breasts are now so large, she has to use medicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}