014 - Getting the right menopause information - Diane Danzebrink & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr Louise Newson talks with Diane Danzebrink, both very passionate campaigners on the subject of improving menopause education for women. The two experts discuss the current HRT shortages and media reports following the recent HRT scare and give women the real facts, talking about their grave concerns that women are going to be denied HRT by their doctors for the wrong reasons and how women need to be given the right information to challenge this.
Diane Danzebrink's Three Take Home Tips:
- Don't panic!
- Don't believe the headlines - go find factual evidence-based advice
- Take someone with you to your doctor's appointment if you're feeling nervous, and before you visit, look at the Menopause Doctor website for information, visit the Menopause Support website and download the 'Ten things your GP should know about the menopause'
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, |
| 0:15.0 | and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello. Menopause and Well-Being Centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. Hello, so today I'm talking to Diane Danzabrook, who as a lot of you know how I have spoken |
| 0:29.6 | to before and we've recorded a podcast together. And in fact, we actually speak most days |
| 0:34.1 | because behind the scenes we're doing a lot of campaigning to try and improve menopause |
| 0:39.0 | care and education. So good morning, Diane. Good morning, Louise. So today we really wanted |
| 0:45.5 | to talk about how women struggle to get the right information for them. And as many of you've heard me speak before, |
| 0:55.8 | menopause care needs to be individualised. Women need to make the right choices for them. |
| 1:00.8 | So my job is not to tell women what to do. Diane is not trying to push women into a corner. |
| 1:06.1 | What we're trying to do is give women evidence-based, non-biased information so they can make the right choices for |
| 1:12.5 | them. And the perimenopause, so the time before period stop when symptoms start and the |
| 1:19.0 | menopause and even the time after the menopause when symptoms can change or even go away, |
| 1:25.8 | it's a journey and everyone's journey is different. So as a healthcare |
| 1:30.4 | professional, obviously I have a lot of knowledge about the menopause because I'm a menopause |
| 1:35.2 | specialist, but sadly a lot of doctors, myself included, didn't have training as an undergraduate |
| 1:41.1 | or postgraduate in the menopause, which is shocking because, as you know, |
| 1:45.7 | half the population, so all women will go through the menopause. So I set up my website to try |
| 1:52.4 | and help give women evidence-based information and we're constantly updating it to improve it. |
| 2:00.5 | So, Diane, I thought maybe at the beginning we could talk about how you as a lay person |
| 2:06.2 | before you started to live and breathe menopause, which you're so passionate about helping. |
| 2:11.5 | So if we turn the clocks back to when you, or even before, you knew you were going to have surgery. |
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