005 - Comparing hormones in menopausal women to teenagers - Nurse Tracy Rutter & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr Louise Newson discusses changing hormones with Nurse Tracy Rutter, who has had an interesting & varied career as an army nurse & a school nurse. Tracy talks about changing hormones in adolescent girls & comparisons with changing hormone levels in perimenopausal and menopausal women, her own experience of surgical menopause, how balancing her hormones really improved the quality of her life & her experience of working in the Menopause and Wellbeing Centre.
Tracy's Three Take Home Tips:
- Don't put yourself on the back burner any more! Be brave and seek the right advice and treatment.
- That 'me time' is really important - remember to take care of yourself.
- Start keeping a diary to record your symptoms and how you are feeling. It can be helpful for your own mind and also when you visit your GP.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist, |
| 0:15.0 | and I run the Newston Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:30.3 | Today I'm really excited because I've got Tracy Rutter, who's our nurse, who works here with me in the Menopause and Well-Being Centre. So hi, Tracy. Good morning, Louise. So thank you for agreeing. |
| 0:36.1 | I've pulled her upstairs into a room so we're going to |
| 0:39.4 | just talk a little bit about Tracy's experience and also your professional experience because you haven't |
| 0:46.0 | been a nurse with an interest in the menopause for very long, have you? No, I haven't. I haven't at all. |
| 0:51.3 | So just if you don't mind, share with us your journey for coming here, your professional journey, what you've done in the past. |
| 0:57.3 | I trained in the army in 1980 and then got married and left and became a casualty reception station sister, |
| 1:05.2 | which was amazing from nursing soldiers to the families and that was lovely and then just by chance when we were |
| 1:13.4 | posted to France I was asked if I'd like to join a school and that was super so from that day on |
| 1:20.4 | until January of this year I've been nursing children in the last about 20 years, it really has been concentrated on caring for adolescent girls |
| 1:35.1 | in particular. |
| 1:36.0 | Okay. |
| 1:36.8 | So to arrive at your door and think, oh my goodness, now having listened to so many |
| 1:42.8 | young girls who are entering something |
| 1:45.2 | quite frightful, lonely at times and very painful. |
| 1:52.6 | Yes. |
| 1:53.5 | So now listening to people who are my age and younger. |
| 1:59.2 | Yes. |
| 1:59.9 | So I'm 57 and the girls, you know, the ladies that are coming are |
| 2:04.3 | all ages, which is incredible. And did that surprise you? Oh my goodness. The lady who arrived at the |
| 2:11.9 | door who was late 70 years. And it was just, you know, I've heard of you and I need some help maybe, what do you |
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