073 - Menopause in the Media - Kaye Adams & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson is joined by Kaye Adams, a radio and television presenter and regular panellist on ITV's Loose Women. Kaye has recently co-authored the book called Still Hot in which 42 women have written about their own menopause experiences.
Kaye and Dr Newson talk about the ways journalists and the media obtain their information and how, for many years, any information they have obtained about the menopause has been incorrect. They also discuss how the incorrect prescribing of antidepressants is so common for menopausal women and how this can be reduced in the future.
Kaye talks openly about her own menopause experience and the reservations she had. She talks about how she came to consider HRT because she's the type of person who needs to read and ascertain the research, which she found to be so different from what she, like many women, had wrongly been told in the past.
Kaye's Three Take Home Tips:
- Don't feel like you have to keep your head down and soldier on.
- Stand back and take the time to really assess how you are feeling and what you need to feel better.
- Prioritise yourself and don't feel selfish for taking that time for you!
Follow Kaye on Instagram: @kayeadamsofficial
Twitter: @kayeadams
Facebook: @kayeadamsprogramme
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause |
| 0:15.8 | specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health |
| 0:22.5 | Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.4 | So today I have with me in the studio, Kay Adams, who is a radio and television presenter, |
| 0:39.0 | and she is also a regular panelist on loose women that I'm sure many of you have watched and enjoyed. She's also brought |
| 0:44.9 | out her a really lovely book called Still Hot. So thanks, Kay, for joining me today. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, it's my pleasure. And also, can I say thank you for contributing to Stillhot? |
| 0:55.2 | Because I think it's lovely, obviously, as a medical professional, you know, you give your |
| 1:01.2 | thoughts on menopause, but it was really good of you to share your own personal experience. |
| 1:05.3 | And I think it's good for us all to remember that, you know, doctors are also human beings. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, thank you. And in fact, it was really |
| 1:11.4 | exciting when it came out because I remember giving the story quite a long time ago now and then |
| 1:16.3 | seeing it in black and white and I have shared it to all sorts of people and all sorts of |
| 1:21.1 | platforms. And in fact, some of my colleagues have thought it's quite wrong that I've done that. |
| 1:26.3 | And I think people actually sometimes |
| 1:28.6 | relate to it well. Like you say, we are just human beings. We all make mistakes. And I made a big |
| 1:33.5 | mistake missing my own perimenopause. So if people can learn from it, then that's fine. So some of |
| 1:40.2 | your colleagues thought it was wrong? Yeah. I'm very open that I take HRT. I'm very open |
| 1:44.7 | that I have symptoms that affected me in the workplace. And I think, you know, we're more open |
| 1:50.6 | as a society than we used to be, aren't we? Sort of 20, 30 years ago, we didn't even talk about |
| 1:55.7 | cancer. It was a C word. We didn't talk about mental illness. And whether it's because it was the |
| 2:01.3 | menopause or whether it was because it was my personal journey, I'm not sure, but I think |
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