More than
Menopause
#morethanmenopause
30 October 2026
More than a sudden menopause
Surgical menopause means a sudden loss of ovarian hormones, alongside recovery from surgery and the condition that led to it. There may be little time to prepare for changes that reach into every part of life, including both physically and mentally.
More than a list of symptoms
Sex, relationships, work, confidence and long-term health can all be affected. We need care that looks beyond hot flushes and recognises the full impact of life after surgery.
More than an afterthought
Menopause care should be part of the plan before surgery takes place. That means clear information, treatment options and ongoing support — without having to fight to be heard.
“I knew it wouldn’t be the same as normal menopause, but I didn’t expect it to be more than menopause. From the initial crash to now, the lack of support has been neverending. My needs continue to be inadequately addressed. My health is deteriorating. My mental wellbeing has crashed. This isn’t ‘just’ menopause. It affects our entire body and being and no-one is listening to that experience and what it is really like for women in surgical menopause. It’s a scandal.”
Bethany, 32
More than awareness.
Be part of the change.
Here’s how to show your support
Take the pledge
Surgical menopause deserves more than an afterthought. On World Surgical Menopause Day, we’re asking you to pledge your support for clear information before surgery, appropriate treatment afterwards and ongoing care.
Whether you’re living with surgical menopause, supporting someone who is or working in healthcare, add your voice and name to our demand for better care for women in surgical menopause.
Add your frame
Put surgical menopause in the picture. Add our campaign frame to your profile photo and show your support for 30 October.
Join the Community
Talk to people who understand life after surgical menopause. The Surgical Menopause UK Support group, run by Lisa Creasey, is a place to ask questions, share experiences and find support.
Share your story
What do you wish you’d known before surgery, or changed afterwards? What would better care have meant for you? Surgical menopause is largely misunderstood - both by healthcare professionals, and the public.
This World Surgical Menopause Day, share what More than Menopause means to you, wherever you feel comfortable to do so. Prefer to share with just us? Email us below.
Use #MoreThanMenopause and #WSMD
About World Surgical Menopause Day
World Surgical Menopause Day was founded in 2025 by Kate Dyson, founder of SURGE Menopause, and Lisa Creasey, founder of Surgical Menopause Support Group UK, after our own experiences brought us together around a shared frustration: women were entering surgical menopause without the information, preparation and ongoing care they needed.
Our routes to surgical menopause were different, but what happened afterwards was painfully familiar. We both experienced first-hand the impact of losing ovarian function — and how difficult it could be to find clear information, knowledgeable healthcare and support that recognised surgical menopause as more than simply an earlier version of natural menopause.
We created World Surgical Menopause Day because we knew our experiences weren’t isolated. What we didn’t expect was the scale of the response.
In its first year, the campaign reached around the world, bringing together women, clinicians, charities and organisations and prompting women everywhere to share their own experiences. Again and again, we heard stories of women who had not been properly prepared for surgical menopause, had struggled to access appropriate treatment or had been left to navigate its symptoms and long-term health implications with too little support.
Its unexpected global success showed just how widespread this failure in women’s healthcare is.
World Surgical Menopause Day exists to make that failure impossible to ignore — and to build a future where every woman entering surgical menopause understands what is happening to her body and receives the care she needs before, during and long after surgery.
Kate Dyson
Founder & Women’s Health Advocate
SURGE Menopause
Co-founder
World Surgical Menopause Day
Lisa Creasey
Founder, Surgical Menopause UK Support
Community & Therapist
Co-founder
World Surgical Menopause Day
Press and Media Enquiries
For interviews, expert comment, campaign information or case studies relating to World Surgical Menopause Day, surgical menopause and the gaps in women’s healthcare, please get in touch.
We can provide spokespeople, lived-experience perspectives, background briefings, campaign assets and supporting evidence for journalists and media organisations covering surgical menopause. Thank you in advance for supporting the awareness of surgical menopause and the lives of women it affects.