020 - Menopause and Antidepressants - Kim Goulding & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kim Goulding is one of Dr Newson's patients here at Newson Health. In today's episode, Kim talks about her own experience with the menopause how she was offered antidepressants. She has always been the driving force behind her family and became socially withdrawn and very low in her mood. She had no idea initially what was happening to her and her life had really changed. She talks to Dr Newson about how she tried to receive the right treatment and her experience taking HRT.

Kim's Three Take Home Tips:

It can be difficult when struggling with severe symptoms, but go and find the right help. If your GP can't help you then go private if you can.
Women should not have to pay for good quality menopause care, but getting the right treatment is priceless!
Get informed and search for evidence-based resources, such as menopausedoctor.co.uk.

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.
0:31.3	So hi, today I haven't got a menopause expert with me. I haven't got a doctor with me. I've got a real patients sitting with me. So today I've got Kim, who's really kindly given up her time,
0:37.1	come back to the clinic, just to talk about her experience, really. So hi Kim. Hello. So you're obviously really well now, which is brilliant. Yeah. But if you can bear with it, go back. Tell me about when we very first met what had been going on. I think when we met, it wasn't, oh, yeah, I was probably at my worst.
0:58.1	But I'd probably be not okay for two to four years.
1:05.6	I know now how bad it was.
1:08.2	At the time I didn't, it's looking back in hindsight, I realised how bad it was.
1:12.5	And it was a gradual progression. It wasn't like overnight instant.
1:16.6	That's exactly. And which happens to so many people. Yeah. How old were you when you first
1:20.6	got symptoms now, do you think? It's really hard to say. When I look back, when I was 45,
1:27.0	my daughter got really ill so I was
1:30.2	loopy because of that and then when we came home I don't know but looking back I think
1:37.3	it was definitely starting then but I just put it all down to your daughter being ill and
1:42.3	then certainly like from then till when i was well basically till i saw
1:47.7	you it was a gradual getting worse and worse and worse and at first i didn't even really
1:54.4	click it and then like oh just like oh it's not that bad it's just ibs it's not a big deal it wasn't ibs
2:00.5	and then um obviously it's gluten so i cut that it's not glutenbs it's not a big deal it wasn't ibs and then um obviously it's gluten so i cut
2:03.8	that it's not gluten in there um so literally it was like a checklist every other every six
2:08.9	months that it was getting worse and worse and worse then it was joints then i stopped running then
2:12.8	to the point where i think it was last september just before I came to see you, we went on holiday and I think I was completely unfunctioning for the whole three weeks that we were on holiday.
2:27.0	It was just in tears, just terrible.
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