{"id":61772,"date":"2026-09-30T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/womans-fight-for-nhs-breast-reduction-after-menopause\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:10:42","slug":"womans-fight-for-nhs-breast-reduction-after-menopause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/womans-fight-for-nhs-breast-reduction-after-menopause\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s fight for NHS breast reduction after menopause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm624v28plz7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Like many others, Howard, who works as a horticulturist, says because of her breasts she also finds exercise painful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4950,521,3998,144,3790,3464],"class_list":["post-61772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-breast","tag-fight","tag-menopause","tag-nhs","tag-reduction","tag-womans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61774,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61772\/revisions\/61774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}