062 - Menopause and Contraception - Dr Philippa Kaye & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson chats to Dr Philippa Kaye - GP, journalist and author. Dr Kaye has just released a new book titled 'The M Word: Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause' and she talks to Dr Newson all about it and explains why she decided to write a book about this area of a woman's life.
Dr Newson and Dr Kaye discuss a number of women's health topics in this informative podcast, including safe sex, STD prevention and contraception around the time of the menopause and perimenopause - when you can stop, when you need protection and the different options available.
Dr Newson also chats to Dr Kaye about the taboo surrounding women's health in general and why it's important that we change the narrative surrounding the menopause.
Dr Philippa Kaye's Three Take Home Tips about Contraception and Menopause:
- You probably need it no matter how old you are! You will need contraception up until 55 depending on when your menopause was and then afterwards as a barrier against STDs.
- Some of that contraception can be used as part of HRT, such as the mirena coil.
- Even if you are going or have gone through an early menopause, you may still need contraception. If you have the right menopause treatment and your libido improves, that's great! But we need to make sure we stay safe.
'The M Word: Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause' by Dr Philippa Kaye is available on Amazon and waterstones.com, as well as in most bookstores.
Find Dr Kaye on Twitter: @drphilippakaye
Instagram: @drphilippakaye
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know, Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist, |
| 1:14.9 | and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 1:24.8 | So today I have Dr. Philippa Kaye with me, who is a GP with a special interest in women's health. |
| 1:31.0 | And we've decided today to talk a bit about her and her background and her book that she's recently published, which is very exciting. |
| 1:39.5 | And also we're going to focus a bit on contraception. So welcome, Philippa. |
| 1:43.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:45.4 | That's fine. So just before we get really started, tell me a bit about your, your background and |
| 1:51.7 | where you work and what you do. So I'm a GP and I work in Northwest London. And when I was doing |
| 1:58.1 | my hospital medicine jobs, I loved all of them, apart from orthopedics. |
| 2:02.4 | The idea of standing, holding a leg for hours and surgery did not appeal to me. |
| 2:07.0 | But I really enjoyed most of medicine, and therefore, GP was the bit that sort of struck out to me as something that I should do. |
| 2:14.7 | And within that, women, children children and sexual health is the part that |
| 2:18.2 | interests me the most. And the good thing about general practice is that you essentially can |
| 2:21.9 | choose a little bit what you do. And so that's what I have done. And then I think what came about |
| 2:29.5 | obvious to me over the past few years was how many women were coming to see me and not |
| 2:34.8 | being aware that their symptoms could possibly be related to the menopause and therefore |
| 2:41.0 | not asking for help about them. And if they came with one symptoms, I don't know, let's say |
| 2:46.5 | they came with hot flushes, if I asked about the other symptoms, which obviously I did, they were |
| 2:51.7 | often really surprised that actually you could treat them all with one medication or that they all |
| 2:57.6 | could be related. And I just started to get really sad about how many women I were seeing coming |
| 3:02.5 | in saying, can I have a memory test? I think I've got dementia. How many women whose relationships were in trouble, |
| 3:09.0 | whose works lives were in trouble, all related to the menopause, and yet not being aware of it, |
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