022 - Menopause for Partners - Leigh Goulding & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Partners of menopausal women are often neglected. In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson talks to Leigh, a partner of one of her patients who vividly describes how worried he was when he saw the changes in his wife and had no idea what was going on. They discuss potential ways of improving education to men and partners. It is really important that partners are involved and understand potential symptoms. Partners can often have a pivotal role in diagnosing the perimenopause and menopause and can help seek the right advice and treatment.Â
Click here to take a look at this booklet, created by Dr Newson, which is a helpful guide specially created for partners to help a loved one manage the menopause: https://bit.ly/2NJkNXs
Leigh Goulding's Three Take Home Tips for partners:
- Hold your tongue - any arguments you may be having may simply be due to perimenopaue and menopause.
- Do your research and make sure to check the sources of whatever you read.
- "Happy wife, happy life!"
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. |
| 0:31.0 | So I'm very lucky today. I have someone called Lee with me in my clinic who has come up with his wife, who is a patient of mine, but he's kindly agreed to give me some time to talk about |
| 0:37.2 | his experience of the menopause, not his personal experience, but he's kindly agreed to give me some time to talk about his experience of the menopause, |
| 0:39.5 | not his personal experience, but his experience of living with a menopause or woman, |
| 0:44.1 | and how scared he was and how difficult it was, really. |
| 0:47.9 | So thanks for coming, Lee. |
| 0:49.3 | That's okay. |
| 0:50.2 | So, talk me through. |
| 0:52.0 | You've had quite a difficult time, which thankfully isn't we've got a happy ending so but just talk to me about what was going through your mind when your wife started changing kim has always been a very active and on it person, really smart. |
| 1:13.5 | And she was kind of dulling, which was unusual, |
| 1:17.5 | and I couldn't quite understand why. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.3 | She was obviously getting the night sweats and everything, |
| 1:23.5 | which I understand can be menopause, |
| 1:26.4 | but being a man didn't really understand |
| 1:28.3 | menopause. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.6 | And I thought that was kind of all that happened to be menopause. |
| 1:33.0 | And then she started getting all the anxieties and problems that came with that. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah. |
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