090 - Talking About Menopause with Women From Ethnic Minorities - Rushna Mia & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr Louise Newson talks to Rushna Mia about her menopause experience and how she is aiming to increase awareness of the menopause and support for women and their families within her local Asian community.
Rushna works in a primary school, is a busy mother of 4, grandmother of a 3-year-old and helps run her family’s businesses. She is passionate about supporting women within her community and takes a lead in various women’s groups. Rushna describes the particular issue of the menopause as a taboo within Asian communities and says it is mostly swept under the carpet and not spoken about.
It took Rushna around 8 years to recognise that the symptoms she was experiencing were due to the menopause and the doctors she saw did not raise this possibility either. After seeing Dr Sarah Ball at the Newson Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre and feeling so much better on the right treatment, Rushna now wants other women to know the right help is available.
Rushna's Three Take Home Tips:
- Use social media, there’s lots of free information out there that can be really helpful regarding your symptoms.
- Speak to your GP or try the Nurse again, ask if there are any local women’s groups.
- Women should work together to help other women and their families. It's important that everyone knows that help and support is available.
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. |
| 0:30.9 | So today, I'm delighted to introduce to you, Rushner, who is a lady who I was introduced to |
| 0:36.9 | recently because she contacted me |
| 0:38.7 | directly, wanting to talk about her own experience that would hopefully resonate and help other |
| 0:44.5 | women. She's also told me that she is a mother of four, which I have ultimate respect for. I can |
| 0:50.6 | only manage three children just about. And she's also a grandmother. She does a huge |
| 0:55.0 | amount of work in her community too. So welcome, Rushner. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:59.6 | Hi Louise. How are you? Good. Thank you. So tell me a bit about you and what you do if you don't mind. |
| 1:06.5 | Well, I actually teach children in the primary school and I've done that for a number of years. |
| 1:12.0 | I really, really enjoy that. |
| 1:14.0 | And then I've got my family that I look after as well. |
| 1:17.4 | We've also got family businesses that we run. |
| 1:19.9 | Gosh, we all do that. |
| 1:21.7 | And I'm also a grandmother of a three-year-old. |
| 1:25.8 | And also, I like to help a lot of the community, the ladies in our |
| 1:29.4 | community. I do run a women's group. And, you know, we try and cover as much as we can. |
| 1:35.1 | We get together once a week we used to before the lockdown. And obviously, everything's come to |
| 1:41.8 | a little bit of a standstill. But I'd like to reach out to |
| 1:45.2 | some of the community with this that's happening to me at the moment that I've encountered, |
| 1:51.0 | which is the men of course. And, you know, I'd like to lend out a helping hand and see if I can |
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