165 - When menopausal symptoms persist, with Dr Anna Chiles

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dr Anna Chiles is a GP and works in an NHS practice in Gloucestershire and at Newson Health as a menopause specialist. In this episode, the experts discuss the range of symptoms that can occur in the perimenopause and menopause and the impact of these on daily life, and they highlight what can be done for women when symptoms persist for many years. Anna’s 3 tips for women who have struggled with symptoms for many years: It’s never too late to start HRT and have that discussion with your health practitioner. If you choose to try it, you don’t have to continue with it if you don’t like it. You don’t have to stop taking HRT when you reach a certain age It’s so important to keep active, for your independence, your balance, joints, and muscle strength. This goes hand in hand with hormone replacement.

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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. So today in the studio I have with me, Dr Anna Childs, who is a GP, she works in the
0:51.5	NHS and she also works with us as well as a menopause specialist. Welcome, Anna.
0:56.5	Thanks ever so much for joining me today. Thanks very much for inviting me. So it's probably
1:00.7	the officially the hottest day of the year for a long time. I promised to that I looked at,
1:05.8	actually got up to 38 degrees today. And I didn't actually have any hot flushes when I was perimenopausal. I got
1:12.6	some night sweats. But actually today's making me realize how uncomfortable it must be for those
1:18.6	women that do have baser motor symptoms, which we know affect about 75% of population who are
1:24.6	menopausal, don't they? And it's really quite uncomfortable, actually.
1:29.9	So I am thinking that, but actually I'm also reminding myself of all the other symptoms
1:34.1	because we just looked at thousands of women who have been using their free balance app.
1:39.5	And the commonest symptom was brain fog, actually. And we all know we slow down in the heat but it's more
1:45.0	than that so these symptoms of the menopause can vary they can change with time and everybody's
1:51.9	individuals so we thought today we talk a bit about symptoms how they can persist and actually
1:58.6	what we can do when we're a bit older as well because there's
2:01.9	certainly a lot of women I see and speak to who they've missed out on individualised treatment
2:07.6	because 20 years ago nearly to the day the WHOHI study came out everyone was told never to prescribe
2:14.9	HRT and these women who might have been 50 then and now 70,
2:19.8	but some of them are still having symptoms. So I thought I'd talk a bit about symptoms and then
2:23.9	a bit about what we can do with helping older women as well, because we see a lot of younger
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