025 - Missing my Perimenopause - Katie Taylor & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Dr Newson chats to Katie Taylor. From the age of 43 Katie suffered for four years with debilitating perimenopausal symptoms, which had been misdiagnosed as depression by her doctor. It was only when her father, a breast cancer professor, suggested that he thought her symptoms were more likely to be hormonal, did she finally get the right diagnosis from her gynaecologist. Within a month of being on the right treatment (HRT) and off the antidepressants, she felt like her old self again.
It was her anger and frustration at having wasted so many years of precious life, that led her to set up an online virtual coffee shop: The Latte Lounge (Top Tips For Women Over 40), to share her experience with others. Katie and Dr Newson discuss how commonly women are misdiagnosed and then are not receiving the right treatment for their symptoms.
Katie Taylor's Three Take Home Tips:
- Print off this symptom checklist and the NICE menopause guidelines and go to your doctor feeling empowered and armed with information.
- Know that HRT should be the first-line treatment, not just anti-depressants.
- Remember you're not alone! Join the Latte Lounge or Menopause Support and talk to like-minded women.
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. |
| 0:28.8 | So today I have great pleasure of introducing Katie Taylor to you. |
| 0:31.9 | She's come up from London to my clinic in Stratford-Pon-Avon. |
| 0:36.6 | And I've known Katie, not that long really, but I feel like I've known you for longer because we've done a lot of head banging against the morning frustration, a lot of sharing emotional stories |
| 0:42.4 | with, so thank you very much for coming, Katie. |
| 0:45.0 | Pleasure. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:46.2 | So I can't even remember when we first met. |
| 0:48.7 | I think we met at Meg Matthews launch, actually, of Meg's menopause. |
| 0:53.7 | That was the first time I came up to. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:56.7 | I think we've probably contacted through maybe social media beforehand. |
| 1:01.5 | And you've got an interesting sort of personal journey. |
| 1:04.6 | And now you're doing a huge amount of work to really help empower women, which is fantastic. |
| 1:09.1 | So just talk a bit, if you don't mind, |
| 1:11.5 | about why you're here. What journey has brought you here today? So my journey was, you know, |
| 1:18.6 | I'm a mum, a busy mum with four kids. And I just stop you there, four, four children. |
| 1:24.0 | Yes. So that is amazing. I've got three and I can barely manage. So any of my patients |
| 1:29.1 | who have full children, I have complete admiration. So, sorry, carry on. So yes, everyone tells me |
| 1:35.3 | I'm mad. Yeah. So, and, you know, I was very capable and, you know, I could, I managed to |
| 1:41.5 | juggle, you know, work and family and, you know, everything pretty well. |
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