271 - Endometrial cancer, the menopause and HRT

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode Dr Louise is joined by one of her patients, Lesley Henry, a nurse who lives in Northern Ireland. Lesley shares her experience of menopause, which started before she received a diagnosis of endometrial cancer. Her treatment for cancer led to a surgical menopause, which she found debilitating. Lesley explains she feared her brain fog and fatigue would prevent her from returning to work and from caring for her mother. A firm believer in the importance of quality of life, Lesley decided to resume taking HRT. She hopes to help other women who are going through similar experiences and shares the things that have given her the strength to make decision about her treatment and her life: I have a faith. Not everybody will have the same faith as I have, and that's fine, but I think having a faith helps. Be proactive and find support groups. Through Action Cancer I learnt about scar therapy, which has helped, plus I completed a positive living programme to learn how to re-energise and rebuild my life. Be prepared to say goodbye to the old you. She's not coming back and in a way, she needs to go. Trust in yourself and listen to your heart. You are worthwhile and your life matters. Click here to find out more about Newson Health

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.
0:21.6	I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.
0:25.6	Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause
0:31.6	and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,
0:38.2	and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.
0:43.7	This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,
0:46.9	which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.
1:02.6	So my podcast today, I've actually got one of my patients who very kindly has agreed to
1:08.5	share her story so other people can have a think and a listen about,
1:13.5	well, shared decision making, making choices as an individual. So welcome, Leslie, to my
1:19.2	podcast today. Hey, Louise. Thank you. So I met you a few months ago now and you've come from a
1:26.5	sort of medical background, haven't you? Do you mind talking
1:29.0	about your job and what you have been doing in the past? Yeah so I'm a nurse I trained as a
1:35.6	nurse a long time ago in July 87 I started which was years ago and I was traditionally trained
1:43.6	and I'm now a district sister.
1:46.3	And I have a caseload with another sister.
1:49.3	And it's sort of quite high pressured and lots of decisions to make about patients in their care.
1:56.6	And so I have a background and I worked on oncology before years ago in Beaver Park and Northern Ireland.
2:04.9	And that's where I'm from.
2:06.7	And yeah, and I look after my mum.
2:09.1	She's elderly. She's 92.
2:11.1	Wow. Okay.
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