019 - What is Perimenopause? - Sheona Khan & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Sheona Khan is a medical writer who has been working closely with Dr Newson for several months. In this weeks episode, Dr Newson and Sheona have an open discussion with about how much she has learnt regarding the perimenopause and how little she knew about it until recently. They discuss ways of improving knowledge for women about the perimenopause and the menopause and also the importance of women receiving evidence based and non-biased information. Sheona asks Dr Newson questions about changing hormones, making a diagnosis and HRT and Dr Newson explains why she feels that younger women should be equipped with the right information regarding their future hormone health.
Sheona Khan's Three Take Home Tips about Perimenopause:
- Talk about it - make those conversations happen. You could be going through the same thing as a friend!
- If you are in your 40s and are experiencing tiredness, forgetfulness or stress - don't dismiss it, start thinking about your hormones.
- Don't wait for your symptoms to get really bad before you consider HRT. The earlier you start replacing your hormones, the better!
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. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, today I've got Tiona Kahn, who is a freelance medical writer with me. |
| 0:36.5 | And I first met her, we were saying just now about six months ago, and she's actually married to a local GP and has been doing a phenomenal amount |
| 0:40.2 | of work with me with medical writing, obviously all about the menopause. So I thought I'd bring her in |
| 0:45.3 | today to talk a lot about what she knew about the menopause and perimenopause and what she |
| 0:52.1 | knows now and hopefully how that's changed her |
| 0:54.8 | perception so hi sheena hello so tell me a bit about what you do first of all so i sit at home in |
| 1:02.7 | my kitchen on the laptop writing most of the time about two years ago i decided to i'd been a speech |
| 1:09.9 | therapist for over 15 years, working |
| 1:13.2 | with people with brain injury. |
| 1:14.9 | And I wanted to have a change and I'd always like writing. |
| 1:17.8 | And I was interested in a lot of different medical topics and found more about medical |
| 1:22.5 | writing and decided to just branch out on my own and give it a go. |
| 1:26.7 | And I think I emailed you about six |
| 1:29.2 | months ago because I was looking for businesses that were fairly local, providing healthcare |
| 1:34.2 | in a topic that I was interested in. And I thought, oh, this menopause clinic looks like |
| 1:40.2 | the right kind of business. I'll approach them and yes you wanted my help so that was |
| 1:45.3 | absolutely so you don't want me saying you're 42 43 so you're 43 and what were your |
| 1:53.2 | thoughts about the menopause before you became insmed into my trap of educated people about |
| 1:59.8 | the menopause what were your thoughts when you first saw |
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