056 - ’balance’ Menopause App - Jane Oglesby & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson is talking with Jane Oglesby, whom she first met at Manchester University when they were both medical students together. Dr Newson and Jane then reconnected a few years ago when she visited the Newson Health clinic as she had been really struggling with menopausal symptoms and was unable to receive the right help and treatment. Jane now works a trustee for The Oglesby Charitable Trust and she is passionate about tackling health inequalities, amongst other issues, and she is also a Director of both Focused Care and the Shared Health Foundation. Jane has kindly personally donated money to enable us to develop and produce a brand new menopause app called 'balance' which has just been launched. The aim of this app is to provide evidence based and non-biased information about the perimenopause and menopause to as many women as possible worldwide. Dr Newson and her team have been working hard for the past year with the most incredible team at Magnetic North in Manchester and is really excited to announce that it is now available to download.
Click here to find out more and download 'balance' today!
Jane Oglesby's Three Favourite Things About 'balance':
- We have asked women what they want! The app has been designed with that as the main objective - it gives women what they have asked for.
- The app is a free resource full of information. We want it to stay accessible for all women.
- balance demonstrates a collaborative effort from a great group of women and I'm very proud of it!
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. |
| 0:31.4 | So today I'm excited for many reasons to produce this podcast and get it out to you today. |
| 0:40.7 | I've got with me Jane Oglesby, who is a friend who I have actually known for decades, there I say it, but we've been reunited, |
| 0:45.0 | as it were, over the last year or so. So thanks for agreeing to do this today, Dane. |
| 0:51.0 | My pleasure. And I'm also very excited because since we've been reunited, we've been working incredibly hard behind the scenes to develop an app called Balance, |
| 0:55.0 | which is just about to be launched. So when you hear this, it will be launched. So we want to |
| 1:00.1 | talk about how we sort of got together again, if you like, and also about the app, which we're |
| 1:05.2 | both incredibly excited about. So just so people know, we went to medical school together in |
| 1:10.7 | Manchester, didn't we, Jane, |
| 1:12.0 | a long time ago. A long time ago. And we didn't really know each other terribly well then, |
| 1:17.3 | did we? No, we didn't. But in fact, it materialised that you were a junior doctor with my husband, |
| 1:23.1 | Paul, weren't you? And I'm very impressed to hear that he did actually help you out a couple of times, |
| 1:28.1 | which is... Well, he now thinks that I thought he was nice just because he wasn't horrible to me. |
| 1:33.8 | And most people when you're a junior doctor are pretty horrible to you. So it may have been |
| 1:37.3 | as simple as that. Yeah. So we, you did some of your training in Scotland and then the rest in |
| 1:41.5 | Manchester and I was in Manchester for all my training. And then you reconnected to me. It must have been two, two and a half years ago, I think. |
| 1:48.2 | You sent me an email, didn't you? Yes. It was one of those wonderful loops of people that I know. |
| 1:53.8 | So I had started to have perimenopausal symptoms. I probably didn't realize, well, how many of my symptoms were |
| 2:03.0 | perimenopausal, but I knew that my periods were getting a bit erratic and a bit heavier |
| 2:09.3 | and that I was struggling a bit more with pre-menstrual syndrome, sort of psychological symptoms |
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