007 - Campaigning for improved menopause care - Diane Danzebrink & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Diane Danzebrink is a psychotherapist, menopause expert, wellbeing consultant and also a great friend of Dr Newson. She is tirelessly campaigning for improved care and support for menopausal women having personally had a dreadful experience of the menopause after an operation to remove her ovaries to the extent she became suicidal. Diane always promised her husband that if she ever improved then she would campaign and fight so that other women do not suffer in the way she did.

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson and Diane discuss the #makemenopausematter campaign Diane has introduced, which now has an impressive 27,000 votes. The aims of this campaign are to improve menopause education amongst doctors and to raise awareness of the menopause within the workplace. The third aim of the campaign has been achieved – which is discussed in this podcast! Dr Newson and Diane also talk openly about the challenges they are experiencing in improving menopause care and education globally.

Diane's Three Take Home Tips for Getting the Right Menopause Care:

If you are in your early 40s, educate yourself and get a general understanding of what menopause is and what it might bring.
Menopause does not have to be negative! This time in your life should be for reflecting on your life and re-setting your goals for the future.
If you're listening and are currently going through the perimenopause or menopause, you are not alone! There are places, such as Menopause Support, where you can talk to like-minded women and get support. There are also so many resources such as menopausedoctor.co.uk where you can find evidence-based advice.

Visit the Menopause Support website here

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast.
0:11.1	I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist,
0:15.1	and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
0:31.9	Hello, I'm really very excited today because I have opposite me a really good friend and campaigner and fellow spokesperson at Diane Danzabrunck who I, we were just working out actually, I haven't
0:39.5	actually known for as long as I think I've known. And so we've had a really good meeting here
0:45.0	in my clinic today and I've hoiked her upstairs in a hot summer afternoon to ask her to
0:52.1	share this podcast with me. So hi, Diane. Hello. Thank you for coming. So we were going
0:57.7	to talk about how we met, but we can't, we didn't decide or realize how we met. But we have met over
1:03.2	some menopause work. We have. And we have a pretty much shared, rested interest in improving
1:09.5	menopause care. I was going to say in the UK, but it's
1:12.3	actually worldwide. I think it's worldwide, isn't it? Yeah. And we both realised that we've started
1:16.7	something that we can't stop. It's a bit like a train, isn't it? We don't quite know where it's going.
1:23.5	So, rather than talking about all our uncertainties, I thought we would start from the beginning
1:28.4	because you haven't always been interested in menopause.
1:32.7	If I'd met you 10 years ago, you wouldn't tell me that's what you'd be doing, really, would you?
1:38.2	No, no, absolutely not lovely.
1:40.5	So tell me a bit about before you started with menopause work, what you were doing.
1:45.3	Okay. So I trained as a counsellor a long, long time ago. And I finished my training and thought, well, I wasn't impressed with that. So I don't really think I can practice that. So I'm going to go off and do something else.
2:01.4	So I trained to be a laser therapy practitioner.
2:08.8	Really? I didn't know that.
2:10.2	And I mainly treated animals, horses and dogs, some people.
2:15.8	Okay.
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