067 - Genitourinary Syndrome of the Menopause - Professor James Simon & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
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🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson is talking with Professor James Simon about Genitourinary Syndrome of the Menopause which affects the majority of women after the menopause and can include symptoms such as vaginal discomfort, irritation, dryness and pain during sexual intercourse. However, only the minority of women currently receive treatment and this needs to change.
Treatment with localised oestrogen can be very effective for the majority of women and is very low risk. Other symptoms related to this condition include urinary symptoms and Prof Simon talks with Dr Newson about how common urinary infections and consequent sepsis can be and how this can be avoided by using vaginal oestrogen.Â
Professor James Simon's Three Take Home Tips:
- Bring it up with your health professional and be direct. Speak to them about about when you are experiencing pain.
- If one treatment doesn't work for you - make sure you don't give up. Speak to your doctor about an alternative and remember that women often need more than the standard dose.
- Remember that urinary tract infections and urinary symptoms are part of the whole syndrome. You can treat those symptoms and infections by taking care of the vagina and vulva as a whole.
Find out more about Professor Simon by visiting his website here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dr. Louise Newsom, a GP and menopause specialist, |
| 0:15.0 | and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.5 | So today on popular demand, I have managed to entice Professor James Simon back to the studio, |
| 0:36.8 | who some of you, I'm sure a lot of you, have already heard his podcast that we did before. |
| 0:40.4 | So today we're going to talk again about the menopause, |
| 0:43.3 | but we're going to talk about something called GSM, |
| 0:46.4 | which is genitur-Eunary syndrome of the menopause, |
| 0:47.7 | which is a bit of a mouthful, |
| 0:50.5 | but I will let Professor Simon explain more. |
| 0:51.9 | So welcome today. |
| 0:52.9 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:53.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:55.3 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:02.2 | We talk quite a lot about menopause, HRT, last time, different types of HRT, how safe it is, |
| 1:08.0 | how effective it is for a lot of women. And we talked about symptoms. But by far the commonest symptom is the one that's probably least spoken about, or group of symptoms, |
| 1:12.6 | should I say. So could you just talk about GSM, what it is and what it means and why women |
| 1:19.3 | experience it? Certainly. This is actually a very important subject, both from the public health, |
| 1:26.9 | but also from the standpoint of maintaining |
| 1:30.0 | healthy relationships, and those go beyond just intimate relationships as women age. |
| 1:37.4 | So genitone urinary syndrome of menopause is a relatively new term. It was coined by a worldwide group of experts |
| 1:48.5 | in response to the following problem. The symptoms are universal. The cause is well understood, |
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