095 - The Lorraine effect: menopause in the public eye. Lorraine Kelly and Dr Louise Newson
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Lorraine Kelly joins Dr Louise Newson in this podcast episode and they discuss their shared experience of talking about the menopause on that infamous couch!
Lorraine talks openly about her own menopause and how treatment radically changed her work life, relationships, and emotional wellbeing. Every time menopause is discussed on Lorraine's show, they have an overwhelming response from women who are struggling with their symptoms and can't get the help they need.
Dr Newson outlines some of the ways she is trying to counteract the misinformation around HRT and general lack of awareness from the public and healthcare professionals. They discuss how attitudes are slowly changing around menopause and share their frustrations at the uphill battle they face in trying to get more help for more women.
Lorraine's top 3 tips for women who are thinking about getting help:
- Get all the information you can and read up on everything you might need to know.
- Don't be fobbed off when you go and try and get help. Remember you're doing it for you, to feel better, but you're also doing it for everyone that loves you.
- If you're given HRT and you don't think it's working , don't give up, keep trying with it, or discuss changing the dose or type, it might take a while to find what suits you. Just go for it and be empowered.
Follow Lorraine on Instagram - @Lorrainekellysmith
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 Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.5 | So today I'm absolutely thrilled, honoured and delighted to introduce to you a guest who I hope all of you know just by her |
| 0:39.5 | first name actually but I will use her surname as well. So I have with me remotely of course |
| 0:45.1 | Lorraine Kelly. So hi Lorraine. Thanks so much. Hi Louise. It's so good to talk to you. |
| 0:50.7 | Do you know it's really interesting. I have quite ambitious targets, as you probably |
| 0:54.7 | know. My mission at the moment is to improve the global health of women, so it's quite a big |
| 0:59.2 | target. But a few years ago, I went to a conference, and it was my first Menopause Society conference, |
| 1:04.6 | and they were full of very learned, very, very clever people, far more clever than me, |
| 1:09.3 | talking about the menopause, obviously, |
| 1:11.0 | because it was a menopause conference, talking about the safety of HRT. |
| 1:14.9 | And I thought, yeah, this is great, this is what I know, but women aren't getting it. |
| 1:18.3 | There's only 10% of women in the UK getting it. |
| 1:20.9 | I thought, what should I do? |
| 1:21.9 | How can I help? |
| 1:22.8 | And I thought, right, I'm going to play with the media. And I always have these goals that I think are completely unachievable, but I'll try my best because there's no harm trying. And one of them I thought, |
| 1:32.5 | right, wouldn't it be good to sit on Lorraine Kelly's sofa and just talk to people about |
| 1:37.4 | the metaphors? Because I think she seems so lovely and so down to earth. Her talking about it |
| 1:43.0 | will be far better than me doing a big research project. |
| 1:46.3 | And I feel very privileged that I've been on your show not once, but I think four times now. |
| 1:52.0 | I don't quite know how I manoeuvred myself actually to come to you. |
| 1:56.3 | I think it worked out really well because, you know, I'd been going through it myself. |
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