About Menopause Philippines

When we searched Google Philippines for "menopause" and "perimenopause" in October 2026, every top result was foreign: Cleveland Clinic, Mayo, NHS, WHO. Good sites, but none of them know what Oestrogel costs at Watsons, which hospitals in Metro Manila run a menopause clinic, or how to say "my OB says it's just stress" in a way that gets you heard.

Filipinas told us the rest. On Reddit they write that "walang doktor na naniniwala sa mga sintomas ko", that they were raised to be matiisin, and that complaining gets you labelled "maarte or OA". Under almost every HRT success story the top reply is the same: "Who is your doctor?"

So we built the page we wished existed: specific, local, honest and kind.

• Explain every symptom, including the odd ones (frozen shoulder, itchy ears, 3 am waking, sweat that smells different), with what actually helps.
• Price treatments and tests from real Philippine sources, with the date we checked. See costs and the Menopause Cost Index.
• Build free tools: a symptom checker, symptom diary, period tracker and more. No account, no paywall, and your answers stay on your device. Read privacy by design.
• Help you find care: our find a doctor guide and how to talk to your doctor scripts.
• Speak to families: daughters and sons can start at Paano tulungan si Mama.

• Sell prescription medicines, or put "buy" buttons on them. Hormone therapy and non-hormonal prescription options in the Philippines need a doctor.
• Promote compounded "bioidentical" hormones or the clinics that sell them. We explain them honestly on one page.
• Give you a personal dose. Your doctor sets your dose.
• Invent doctors, patients, testimonials or statistics.
• Overstate what a supplement can do. The evidence for most is weak, and we say so.

Menopause Philippines is part of a small network of independent Philippine women's health guides, alongside Birth Control Philippines and PCOS Philippines. The sites are run by the same owner and editorial team.

We are recruiting a Filipino OB-GYN, ideally a member of the Philippine Society of Climacteric Medicine, as our medical reviewer. Until that person is in place, our pages say "Editorially reviewed" and nothing more. Read how that works on our medical review page, and how we pay for all of this on how we make money.

Spotted a mistake, an old price or a clinic that has moved? Tell us and we will check it. Corrections are logged under our editorial policy. We cannot answer personal medical questions by email; for those, please see a doctor.