Everything you need to know about the menopause (in less than 1 hour)
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Join Lorraine and Trish in this one off special episode for World Menopause Day as they share everything they've discovered about the menopause during Series 1 and 2 of Postcards From Midlife. From the 34 symptoms women can experience, to what's actually going on with our hormones, plus the facts about HRT - hear from experts and celebrities on how to successfully manage this time in your life.
We'll be back with Series 3 in a few weeks time but in the meantime you can get in touch, ask a question or share your midlife story: DM us @postcardsfrommidlife, join our Facebook Group or email us hello@postcardsfrommidlife.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Hello! I'm Lorraine Candy and I'm Trish Halpin and we'd like to welcome you to this |
| 0:05.3 | special episode of Post-Cars from Midlife. |
| 0:14.8 | We're back between Series 2 and the upcoming Series 3 with this extra episode to mark |
| 0:19.5 | World Menopause Day, Sunday the 18th of October. Lorraine and I have learned so much about |
| 0:24.7 | menopause and perimenopause since we started this podcast back in January. Thanks to all the |
| 0:29.3 | fantastic experts and women we've spoken to over the last ten months. Yes, as you may or may not |
| 0:34.8 | know there are 13 million women in the UK either going through this or about to go through it |
| 0:40.3 | and if you're anything like us you won't have a clue what's been going on as you start to feel |
| 0:44.6 | like you're unraveling. There are, apparently, 34, well at least 34 symptoms of perimenopause |
| 0:52.1 | and these can range from hot flushes which you tend to hear about but not all women get right |
| 0:57.0 | the way through to rainfall, low mood, tinnitus, aching bones, iron deficiency, sore teeth, poor sleep, |
| 1:04.6 | in solos, yes, the list goes on, weight gain and all sorts of other things that you probably will |
| 1:12.2 | not have linked to perimenopause. Now that's sad enough as it is but those symptoms will cause one |
| 1:20.0 | in five women to leave their jobs because they're untreated symptoms of the menopause and 90% of |
| 1:26.4 | women will experience some symptoms of the menopause and that isn't just hot flushes although that |
| 1:31.3 | seems to be the main narrative and a staggering 66% of women are offered anti-depressants by |
| 1:37.1 | GPs instead of hormone replacement therapy to tackle their lack of estrogen and testosterone |
| 1:42.4 | at the stage of their lives and many women are wrongly refused HRT by ill-informed GPs. |
| 1:48.8 | Yeah, it really is a minefield for all of us going through it so if you're struggling right now |
| 1:53.9 | you have come to the right place because our mission is to help you find your midlife mojo |
| 1:58.4 | and in this episode we've collated all the answers our experts and guests have given to some of |
| 2:03.1 | the most pressing menopause questions which we asked in series one and two of postcards from |
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