Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.

On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based

information and advice about both the perimenopause and the

menopause.

So today with me, I've got somebody who reached out to me, like a lot of people do, online,

and she hadn't really thought about the menopause for a long time,

but she is a medical professional, and she's actually a psychiatrist.

And we're going to talk about how her eyes have been open to the world of the perimenopause

and menopause.

So, Davica, thanks ever so much for joining us today.

Thank you for having me on the podcast.

So I was doing, was it me that was doing

a webinar and your husband is a GP, isn't he? I think you weren't really, it wasn't on your radar,

but he was listening to and you started to listen and you had this light bulb moment, didn't you?

Yeah, yeah. It was an evening webinar that you were doing. It was during

COVID lockdown. So we were doing all these kind of online learning sessions in the evening. It was

quite the thing then. I was literally eating my dinner. It was there in the background. He was watching.

And kind of 10 minutes in, you were talking about particular patients that were coming with

lots of antidepressants and different medication, nothing working and then thinking about the symptoms in terms of the menopause.

And it really clicked for me at that point.

I had so many patients that I had seen throughout my training kind of come to mind thinking,

oh my God, did I miss something there?

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