HRT & the menopause symptoms you shouldn't ignore
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Want to know the secret to getting through your peri-menopause without going insane? Lorraine and Trish talk to Dr Shahzadi Harper about exactly what’s happening with your hormones, the symptoms you shouldn’t ignore and how to get the right help from your GP.
Plus: rowing with your teens, the power breakfast and getting a good night’s sleep.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy. Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. The show where we help you through the |
| 0:09.4 | Midlife, the menopause, motherhood and everything in between. |
| 0:13.2 | In today's episode we're going to be separating menopause myths from reality |
| 0:20.9 | and finding out what is actually going on with our hormones in pereminopause. |
| 0:25.0 | And tactics on rowing with your teenager, all those family arguments you tend to have with hormonal teens, |
| 0:32.0 | where you can get help, and what's really going on if you're feeling at the end of your tether. |
| 0:37.0 | I haven't you been feeling at the end of your death and the rain? |
| 0:40.0 | Yes. I know we talk about this a bit, but sleeping. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, it's a big thing mid-life and sleeping. Do you know what? sleeping I know we talk about this a bit but sleeping |
| 0:43.2 | well it's a big thing midlife and sleeping do you know what I discovered this week which I |
| 0:46.0 | think's going to be the way forward for me and Mr. Candy the Scandinavian two |
| 0:50.1 | duvet you each have a duvet and you cocoon, that's the word they use. |
| 0:55.0 | That sounds very cozy. |
| 0:57.0 | At your own pace, without having it pulled off you or without his hugely volcanic heat radiating. |
| 1:05.0 | So I'm going to get a duvet each and then that's going to regulate my own heat |
| 1:10.0 | without having to mone to Miss Nacati about it. So that's my plan. |
| 1:15.0 | So my plan, I've got a different... |
| 1:17.0 | Special Wars-O in your bed. |
| 1:19.0 | What do you do, Trish? Tell me about it. |
| 1:21.0 | I bought a soup-picking size bed. You know Neil and I we're not the biggest people in the world so there's actually quite a lot of space to have on this bed and in fact there's a sort of barrier |
| 1:32.8 | in the middle of the bed where I stuff my extra pillow. |
| 1:36.2 | Is that just rampant Neil? |
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