091 - Being Young & Menopausal - Hayley Etherington & Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr Louise Newson chats to Hayley Etherington, a young woman who has been menopausal since the age of 14.
Hayley talks openly with Dr Newson about her experience and how, even though she was given HRT as a teenager, she has been struggling with many different symptoms for so many years. Hayley's GP didn't make the connection between her symptoms and her menopause diagnosis and never suggested that she may be on the wrong type or dose of HRT.
Since having a virtual consultation with Dr Newson at the Newson Health clinic, Hayley is now on a new regime of HRT and says she feels like a new person, one who feels well and is full of energy.
Hayley has decided that now is the time to speak out about her premature menopause which she held inside for 25 years, in the hope that it may help others who are experiencing something similar.
Hayley's Three Take Home Tips:
- You know your body - not the doctor. Be persistent if you feel you are not getting the right help.
- Get a second opinion, try other GPs or see a menopause specialist if you can.
- Find your tribe of ladies. There is support out there for you - you are not alone.
Follow Hayley on Instagram: @prematuremenopause14
Read Hayley's blog: https://hayleysmenopause14.blogspot.com/
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 Newsome Health Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:30.6 | Today I have great pleasure introducing to you someone called Haley, who I actually met via |
| 0:36.5 | Instagram. |
| 0:37.4 | I've seemed to meet a lot of my new friends, as it were, through Instagram. |
| 0:42.0 | And Haley emailed me her story, and it really stuck with me. |
| 0:46.4 | I have a lot of sad stories that I hear all the time, |
| 0:49.2 | but some of them resonate even more and make me more determined to help even more women. |
| 0:54.0 | And Haley's was one of |
| 0:55.0 | them. So thanks Haley for joining me today. Thank you. Thank you for asking me. |
| 1:00.1 | So it took you quite a lot, I think, to write the email telling me about what had happened to you. |
| 1:06.9 | Do you mind just talking through about your sort of, your experience, your journey really, if that's okay? |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, it's fine. |
| 1:15.0 | So I was 12 years old when I started my periods and they started and were going on yearly. |
| 1:22.0 | And then all of a sudden they stopped and I didn't really think much of it at the time. |
| 1:25.9 | So I just thought, well, I'm one of the younger girls out of my friends who have started their periods anyway so sort of just thought |
| 1:31.7 | oh they'll probably start again but then they didn't and I started having really bad night sweats |
| 1:38.3 | hot flushes while I was in class at school I'd be sitting there thinking like what's what's going |
| 1:43.4 | on why do I feel like this? |
| 1:45.0 | So how old were you then? So that was 13. Gosh, okay. So I kept just not feeling right. And I kept saying |
| 1:52.0 | to my mum that I felt weird. And she was like, what do you mean you feel weird? I was like, I don't |
| 1:56.2 | know, mum. I just don't feel myself. She was like, would you feel ill? And I was like, no, but I just feel weird. |
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