The One About Perimenopause, Sex Drive and Supporting Yourself Through Hormonal Shifts with Dr. Farzana Haq

The Papaya Podcast

Mental Health, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Dr. Farzana Haq discusses the complexities of perimenopause and menopause, addressing the hormonal changes women experience, the emotional journey, and the importance of self-care. She emphasizes the need for open conversations about women's health, the role of medications and treatments, and how to prepare for doctor visits. The discussion also touches on the impact of menopause on sexual health and the significance of tracking menstrual changes. Overall, the conversation aims to empower women to embrace this transition positively!

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole,
0:10.2	and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom
0:15.6	or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital
0:23.3	space together. All right, everyone, welcome back. We have a topic today that is seemingly
0:33.3	all over our news feeds, everything that people are talking about lately, and that is perimenopause.
0:39.6	So we have Dr. Farsana on today.
0:42.5	We are talking HRTs.
0:45.0	We are talking perimenopause and menopause.
0:48.1	Please welcome Farsana to the show.
0:50.7	Hi.
0:51.2	Thank you so much for having me.
0:53.2	So just to give myself a brief intro, I'm a family physician. I'm working in Toronto. I've been working in primary care for 15 years. I've been working with the Cleveland Clinic with their executive health program for the past 12 years. And more recently, I've moved into their women's health program, taken the lead there,
1:11.4	and have my menopause certification. And I'm working with a clinic to help build a perimenopause
1:16.5	and menopause program for women. So I'm super excited to be here today to talk about all things perimenopause,
1:22.2	because this is like the hot topic of the day. It is. And it's also, I think, really confusing.
1:27.1	Because right now, I could say something
1:29.4	as simple as I have itchy skin today and people will be like paramedopause. It's perimenopause.
1:34.3	And I'm finding it like, oh, I had itchy skin in my 20s and we wouldn't have said that. So I'm
1:39.8	finding we're so on alert to try and track and see the signs of perimenopause. But I am so freaking
1:47.5	lost. I'm 40. I'm not feeling that yet, but I know it's coming and I want to be prepared and I want
1:53.7	to feel empowered and not fearful of it. What do you think is like sort of happening right now in the
1:59.2	world with this mass amount of information and are we
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