030 - Early Menopause and POI - Dr Sarah Ball and Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this week's podcast, Dr Louise Newson is joined by Dr Sarah Ball, a GP with a special interest in the menopause. Together, they talk all about early menopause and Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) which affects women under 45 years. In the UK, around one in 100 women under 40 experience an early menopause yet many of these women are not diagnosed nor do they receive evidence-based advice and treatment. It is essential that these women receive replacement hormones at least until the age of 51 (the average age of the menopause) unless there are medical contra-indications to taking hormones. Dr Newson and Dr Ball discuss the health risks of untreated early menopause and POI and also the different ways in which women can receive individualised help and treatment.

Dr Sarah Ball's Three Take Home Tips:

Early menopause is a different experience - it is essential to replace your hormones
Your fertility still does need to be considered
Don't feel isolated! Find some support, there are others out there experiencing the same thing.

Click here to watch Dr Louise Newson discuss early menopause and POI.

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.
0:31.6	So today I have Sarah Ball, who's one of the doctors who works with me very closely in my Menopause and Well-Being Centre. So thanks for coming today, Sarah.
0:34.9	It's a pleasure.
0:35.9	Some of you might know we recorded a podcast a few months ago now talking about migraines and the menopause.
0:42.7	So today we thought we would focus on younger women because when people think about the menopause,
0:48.8	often people think about women in their 50s with hot flushes.
0:52.4	And that's what most people, don't't they think about the menopause.
0:55.9	But actually I was quite surprised to learn really quite recently because as many of you know
1:01.9	I didn't have any formal menopause training as an undergraduate or postgraduate that one in
1:06.7	100 women under the age of 40 in the UK experience in early menopause and one in a thousand women under the age of 40 in the UK experience in early menopause and one in a thousand
1:14.0	women under the age of 30. So that's really common, isn't it? It is. Did you ever get
1:18.8	taught that at medical school? No, no, not all, no. And it is far commoner than you think it is.
1:24.2	Yes. I was taught as well at medical school that if a woman doesn't have periods,
1:29.1	then you need to make sure they're not pregnant. That's really important because we've all seen
1:33.6	people who sit there and say, no, I'm not pregnant and you do a pregnancy test and they've found
1:37.7	that they are. And we did touch on eating disorders because people who have anorexia and sometimes
1:42.9	athletes, don't they know their periods stop.
1:45.6	And actually we were taught that if periods stop, you need to think about their hormones because
1:50.6	of their bone health because if they don't have hormones as an increased risk of osteoporosis.
1:55.7	But that was all I was taught. So I have for quite a few years now, I'm really embarrassed to say that I must have seen
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