So something like 75% of women at some point in their post-menopausal years will have like

leaking of urine, they'll have some degree of like weakening of the organs and maybe a little bit of

like a prolapse of the organs.

That's generally what I tell people as a gauge

for is this normal or abnormal,

is it affecting your quality of life?

So amount of period bleeding, amount of pain, that sort of thing. If it's something that you're like this is terrible I can't work like this or I can't sleep like this that's when you say okay I need to get some help

Karen Tang is a gynecologist. She wants to make it very clear that any pain

your feeling in your pelvic area deserves to be taken seriously and is not just all in your mind. I'm Liz Earl, welcome to the

Liz Earl Well-being show. This is the podcast helping us all have a better second

half and I'm on quite the mission to find ways for us all to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.

Now I wonder if you have any experience of pelvic pain not being taken seriously by doctors.

Perhaps your complaints have included things like abnormal bleeding or leaking urine, well you're not alone. 90% of women experience

menstrual abnormalities or pelvic problems in their lifetime. 90% wow. Well I can include myself there for various things that we have

obviously covered previously on this show, recurrent UTIs being one of them.

And Karen is a board certified gynecologist and minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon.

She's an internationally recognized leader in reproductive health.

Her latest book, It's Not Hysteria, shares a huge amount of critical

knowledge about myriad conditions we need to better understand because we just might have

them. And there is just so much I want to cover with Karen,

including fibroids, peacose, pelvic floor dysfunction,

and of course, how all of these things are affected by menopause. Akato's got your favorites every last one from steak to beefless burgers in your

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