163 - When night sweats are not the menopause with Dr Susanna Crowe

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Susie Crowe is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who is passionate about advocating for and empowering women to understand their bodies and supporting them to make choices about their medical care and their lifestyle. In the midst of the pandemic, Susie noticed fatigue creeping in and put it down to burnout from her busy job. When she began having night sweats and saw her doctor, the menopause was the initial diagnosis suspected but there were no other symptoms of perimenopause occurring. Susie became more unwell and after months of having normal blood tests, further investigations revealed that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma – a type of blood cancer. In this episode, the experts discuss women’s experiences of sudden onset menopause after treatments for cancer and the benefits and safety of HRT. Susie’s advice to healthcare professionals: Listen to your patients as they know their bodies best Have empathy for a women’s menopausal symptoms (as they may be worse than those from the cancer or side effects from treatments) and she may feel very vulnerable Prioritise personalisation and choice by providing the right information and encouraging your patient to make their own decision based on what’s important to them and their life. Follow Susie on social media: Twitter @susannacrowe Instagram @theholisticobgyn

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0:00.0	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.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause. Today on the podcast, I've got a patient and a healthcare professional. So it was
0:50.6	really, really interesting because I'm going to listen to two perspectives, actually.
0:54.5	So I've got with me, Susie, who has recently reached out to me and has a very interesting
0:59.2	story that we'll go through. So thanks, Susie, for joining me today. Thank you so much. It's
1:03.0	really nice to be here. So you were very complimentary in your email to me, which is very nice,
1:07.8	but that's not why I invited you to the podcast. I have all sorts
1:11.1	of emails and some are not as complimentary, but that doesn't matter. I think the important
1:15.6	thing is about listening to women, actually, and we've all got different journeys. We all have
1:20.2	different backgrounds, we have different lives, we have different experiences, but we also have
1:24.3	different health as well. And I do, we'll tease this out, but I know from my own person experience, being a medical
1:31.1	professional and a patient is just awful, actually, because you think you have more knowledge
1:36.4	than you have.
1:37.7	And the first time when I was ill with sepsis after my first daughter, I thought I knew everything.
1:43.6	And actually I didn't because I was
1:44.7	ill and I needed someone to take control, but the junior doctors were too scared because I was a doctor.
1:49.5	So then I got consultant-led care, which they never wrote in the notes. And there were all sorts of
1:54.3	things that really quite scared me about being a patient because I don't think you get always the
1:59.7	best care as a patient because people
2:01.4	are bit apprehensive. So there's lots of things going on. So if you wouldn't mind Susie,
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