277 - How I manage menopause with diabetes

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Joining Dr Louise on this week’s episode is Victoria Faulkner, who was diagnosed with type one diabetes in childhood. Victoria talks about day to day life managing menopause and diabetes, as well as her experiences of a surgical menopause due to treatment for endometriosis. Finally she shares the three things she thinks women with type one diabetes should know about hormonal health, and what has helped her personally: Familiarise yourself with the NICE guidelines on diabetes and see what you can access to monitor your diabetes Use a body map to track your symptoms ahead of any appointments you have to help discussions on any symptoms you might be experiencing Ask your healthcare professional for a continuous glucose monitor to help monitor your blood sugars and spot any patterns, and if possible, push for a sensor augmented pump system to monitor any highs or lows. For more information on Newson Health, click here. Dr Louise Newson’s first-ever live theatre tour, Hormones and Menopause – The Great Debate, takes place 27 September to 12 November. For more information and tickets, click here.

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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.
1:02.7	So on my podcast today I'm very delighted to introduce to you, Victoria, who has kindly
1:07.9	agreed to come onto the podcast and share her experience of having diabetes and endometriosis and how menopause has affected her.
1:17.0	So welcome Victoria.
1:19.0	Hi, thank you very much for having me.
1:20.8	It's lovely to be on here and speak to everyone.
1:23.1	So tell me a bit about you and your medical history, if that's okay.
1:27.8	Yeah, so I was diagnosed with diabetes at age five. So that was back in 1994.
1:35.7	Then I was diagnosed with celiac disease age 11. That was diagnosed because I'd stopped growing.
1:43.2	And after that, kind of in my teenage years, I had a lot of
1:47.9	wellness. I was told that it was possibly down to chronic fatigue, ME, lupus, I had very bad headaches,
1:58.5	really kind of lots of issues that were always, oh, because you're
2:03.0	diabetic, it must be that you're going to have juvenile arthritis, or we go to the children's
2:08.5	hospital and leaves, and it would be like, oh, we'll put you in this clinic, but actually
2:12.4	looking back, it was all around my teenage years, and most of the symptoms that I had then
2:17.1	have now come up again.
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