149 - What I have learnt since falling in love with menopause care with Dr Abbie Laing

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson speaks to Dr Abbie Laing about why she now specialises in menopause care and what she has learnt through her research and writing on the subject. Together the experts discuss clinical hot topics where misinformation and misunderstandings are rife such as what the evidence shows about the risk of clots and breast cancer with HRT, and treating symptoms of genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) with vaginal estrogen. Abbie’s 3 tips for women with symptoms of GSM: Seek help early and use vaginal estrogen; persist with treatment options if the first one doesn’t suit you. The benefits are huge, and treatment should be long term. If you have recurrent UTIs, consider vaginal estrogen treatments . For elderly, frail, or very busy women, the vaginal estrogen ring (Estring) is a very effective and safe option. Vaginal estrogen treatments are very safe and do not have any associated risks, including for people who have had cancer. To access the treatment pathways discussed in this episode, become an associate of the Newson Health Menopause Society at www.nhmenopausesociety.org For more information on any of the treatments discussed, visit the balance website at www.balance-menopause.com

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause. So today on my podcast, I want to welcome to you, Dr. Abbey Lang, who is one of the
0:50.7	doctors that works very closely with me in the clinic, but she also has a brain
0:55.0	very big and she likes writing and researching. And she's a bit like me in the respect that a lot of
1:02.0	her time is now thinking about the menopause and talking about it to anyone that will listen. So
1:07.9	thanks ever so much, Abby, for joining me today. Thank you, Louise, for that kind introduction. I feel very grateful to be here speaking with you
1:14.7	today. So tell me about you first and then we'll talk more about clearly the menopause,
1:19.6	but why are you interested in the menopause and what was your journey from medical school to hear?
1:24.9	So I was always interested in women's health. If I look back retrospectively, I can see that
1:30.6	I always wanted to work in women's health and I had a natural passion towards that side.
1:36.1	My initial career started out in obstetrics and gynecology and I did that for a few years initially
1:42.1	in Perth, Australia. I moved out to Perth and did a lot of obstetrics and gynecology.
1:47.1	But as part of my rotations out there, I never went through a menopause rotation.
1:52.5	And I know that in Perth, they were available.
1:55.1	But unfortunately, I didn't get to do one of those.
1:58.4	My husband did do a menopause rotation in Perth, and he always talked
2:04.2	about menopause aspects of care that I felt I didn't fully understand. I then returned to the UK
2:10.5	and did my GP training, and I knew that I wanted to be a GP with a specialist interest in women's
2:17.2	health, and I thought I'd equipped myself in most of the prongs. And I knew that I wanted to be a GP with a specialist interest in women's health.
2:17.5	And I felt I'd equipped myself and most of the prongs of women's healthcare, but HRT still felt like a grey area.
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