The One Where We Learn About MENOPAUSE With Menopause Chicks, Shirley Weir!
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
I’ll never forget when a doctor said to me that my symptoms COULD be signs that menopause is coming. I was floored. And clueless. When exactly does menopause start? What does it look like? What do I need to be aware of? Is my sex life DOOMED when it comes? We breakdown all the common questions, the unknowns and the new ways we can look at menopause, understand it, and even find community in this seemingly taboo topic (because why aren’t we talking about it?)
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Content warning: discussions about self-harm, and weight
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.5 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.4 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital space together. |
| 0:31.4 | So I had some really interesting symptoms after having a baby. I mean getting my first period again, six months after she was born. It was just different. My hormones were really off balance. There were so many symptoms that I still honestly haven't even gotten to a place of making sense of. So I chalked up everything to a more complicated postpartum that I maybe had remembered. |
| 0:56.2 | But then I was talking to my doctor about some of my symptoms and she said, there is a possibility |
| 1:00.4 | that you are entering into perimenopause or premenopausal symptoms and all of the stuff. And I just felt |
| 1:09.3 | sudden shock. And I was scared. If I'm egonous, |
| 1:14.3 | I was scared. I have no idea what that means, what that looks like. I mean, I feel like I just had a |
| 1:19.9 | baby. How can I go from postpartum to being premenopausal? None of it made sense. And I felt |
| 1:24.9 | myself just so fascinated, but also confused about why have I never |
| 1:30.4 | learned about menopause, what the symptoms are, what it looks like, what it feels like, knowing that |
| 1:35.3 | it's apparently, well, we'll learn more today. But apparently it is a 15 year process and it can start |
| 1:42.1 | at a variety of ages for a variety of different reasons. And so today we have |
| 1:46.9 | on from, we have Shirley on from menopause chicks. And when she actually wrote an email about |
| 1:53.2 | having a conversation about menopause, I was like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, please, because we need to |
| 1:58.4 | have this conversation because I feel like I'm a I'm cornering not cornering people |
| 2:03.4 | but I was on an event last week and we were talking about normal things and got onto the subject |
| 2:06.9 | of menopause and all of us were like why is nobody talking about this? There's no I feel like I don't |
| 2:11.9 | know what's going on and all of a sudden a lot of my friends are going through this experience with, oh my gosh, |
| 2:19.0 | what is menopause even? What does it look like beyond what movies have told us and, you know, |
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