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Last week in Kaunas, the Lithuania Menopause Society held its second scientific-practical conference, “Menopause in Prac...
21/10/2026

Last week in Kaunas, the Lithuania Menopause Society held its second scientific-practical conference, “Menopause in Practice: from Neurology to Oncology.” Almost 300 specialists from different fields joined us, in the room and online.👩‍⚕️

Many experts from Lithuania and abroad gave presentations, including neuroscientist Laura Stankeviciute, PhD (University of Gothenburg) and Dr. Peter Greenhouse FRCOG FCSRH ADHD , a menopause and women’s health specialist from the UK.

We discussed:
🟢 and brain health
🟢 during the menopause transition
🟢weight change and its mechanisms
🟢menopause after , not only breast cancer
🟢prescribing in complex clinical situations

crosses every specialty. A woman with migraine goes to a neurologist, with weight changes to an endocrinologist, after a cancer diagnosis to an oncologist. Each doctor sees only part of the picture.

After cancer, many women and doctors are afraid to even talk about MHT. Sometimes it really isn’t an option, but often it’s worth looking at the evidence together, because every woman deserves that conversation.

Thank you to all the speakers, participants and organisers!🤍🌿

09/08/2026

Do you need to let caffeine go during menopause or perimenopause?☕️

Dr. Dovilė answers your question straight from Facebook📲❓

Follow NeoPause for more real answers🌿 And if you have any similar questions, let us know in the comments👇



Dovile Kalvinskaite

Everything you think you know about menopause might be 10 years out of date.👇The science has changed, but the conversati...
06/08/2026

Everything you think you know about menopause might be 10 years out of date.👇

The science has changed, but the conversation hasn’t.

Millions of women are still being told to “just get through it,” while research is uncovering connections between hormones, the brain, the gut, the heart, and so much more.🔗

After attending the European Menopause Society Academy, we came back with one big takeaway:

🌿Women’s midlife health deserves better than outdated advice.

Swipe through to discover 6 insights that are changing how experts understand menopause and perimenopause - from why hot flushes start in the brain to why some women are misdiagnosed with anxiety or ADHD before anyone considers hormonal changes.

Because the right information doesn’t just answer questions. It changes the care women receive.🤍

Save this post - you’ll want to come back to it.

Have you ever left doctor’s appointment thinking “I wish I’d known what to say”?😶‍🌫️Too many women are dismissed with ph...
29/07/2026

Have you ever left doctor’s appointment thinking “I wish I’d known what to say”?😶‍🌫️

Too many women are dismissed with phrases like:
▫️”You’re too young”
▫️”Let’s try antidepressants first”
▫️”HRT is too risky”

You don’t need to argue, you just need the right questions.

We created a free Doctor Prep Guide with practical, evidence-informed responses to some of the most common myths women hear during perimenopause or menopause. 📑

👇Comment:
🇱🇹BONUS LT for the Lithuanian version
🇬🇧BONUS EN for the English version

We’ll send it to you via DM🤍

Save this post - you may need these words one day.🌿

13/07/2026

How do you actually get 25-40g of protein per meal? 🍳🍗🥙 Dr. Dovilė answers your question straight from Facebook📲

More real answers 👉 follow NeoPause profile🌿

Brain fog isn’t the same as dementia 🧠Memory lapses during menopause are common and usually are temporary. The biggest d...
09/07/2026

Brain fog isn’t the same as dementia 🧠

Memory lapses during menopause are common and usually are temporary. The biggest difference is that brain fog fluctuates, while dementia progressively worsens.

And knowledge can replace fear 🤍 Save this post for later🌿

A woman in her late forties says she feels flat, anxious, not herself. She leaves with an antidepressant — and nobody’s ...
03/07/2026

A woman in her late forties says she feels flat, anxious, not herself. She leaves with an antidepressant — and nobody’s asked about her periods or her sleep.

To be clear: this isn’t a post against antidepressants. They help a huge number of people, and for some women in perimenopause they’re the right tool. The problem wasn’t the drug. It was the sequence — the hormonal question never got asked first.

Mood changes in perimenopause are physiological, not imaginary. The same estrogen swings that wreck your sleep act on the brain. For some women the low mood lifts with the treatment that addresses everything else; for others an antidepressant is better; for some it’s both. You can’t know which unless someone looks at the whole picture.

With this patient we just asked the questions no one had — and then talked through every option, including hormone therapy she hadn’t known existed.

If you’re being treated for low mood and no one’s asked about your hormones, you’re allowed to ask: could this be part of it? Can we look at the whole picture first?

👩‍⚕️💌🤍🌿 —D

A woman in her late forties says she feels flat, anxious, not herself. She leaves with an antidepressant — and nobody’s ...
03/07/2026

A woman in her late forties says she feels flat, anxious, not herself. She leaves with an antidepressant — and nobody’s asked about her periods or her sleep.

To be clear: this isn’t a post against antidepressants. They help a huge number of people, and for some women in perimenopause they’re the right tool. The problem wasn’t the drug. It was the sequence — the hormonal question never got asked first.

Mood changes in perimenopause are physiological, not imaginary. The same estrogen swings that wreck your sleep act on the brain. For some women the low mood lifts with the treatment that addresses everything else; for others an antidepressant is better; for some it’s both. You can’t know which unless someone looks at the whole picture.

With this patient we just asked the questions no one had — and then talked through every option, including hormone therapy she hadn’t known existed.

If you’re being treated for low mood and no one’s asked about your hormones, you’re allowed to ask: could this be part of it? Can we look at the whole picture first?

-D 👩‍⚕️💌🤍

24/06/2026

If intimacy has become uncomfortable, painful, or something you’ve started avoiding, you’re not alone. 🫂

This week’s real Facebook question: “What are we doing for painful intercourse?”🫦

Dr. Dovile Kalvinskaite answers👩‍⚕️

Your bloods came back normal, so it’s not your hormones. 🩸Here’s what gets left out: in perimenopause, normal bloods are...
19/06/2026

Your bloods came back normal, so it’s not your hormones. 🩸

Here’s what gets left out: in perimenopause, normal bloods are exactly what you’d expect. Your hormones in these years don’t fall in a tidy line — they swing week to week, even within a cycle. One blood test is a single frame of a moving film, and it can’t tell you the film is fine.

That’s why the guidelines say perimenopause in a woman over 45 with typical symptoms is a clinical diagnosis — you make it by listening, not by chasing a number that was never reliable for this.

With this patient we treated her symptoms as the data instead of the bloods, named what was going on, and started talking about what actually helps — for many women, hormone therapy, trialled properly and adjusted over a few months.🧬

A normal test doesn’t mean nothing’s happening. It often just means the test couldn’t see it. You’re allowed to ask: are my symptoms alone enough to talk about treatment?

Usually, they are.🌿

-D 🤍

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