285 - Friendships and menopause: how conversations can be transformational

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Joining Dr Louise this week is Louise Mulley, who shares her experience of anxiety and menopause. Louise shares the importance of speaking openly about menopause and mental health, and how a conversation with a close friend helped her recognise her symptoms and find the right support and treatment. She also shares her top three tips on helping friends or loved ones who may be struggling with their mental health during perimenopause and menopause: Help your friend unburden: ask them ‘would you like to talk to me about it?’. Make it clear they can talk to you with no judgement and in confidence. Share your own menopause story to encourage your friend to open up about what they may be going through. Keep an open mind: if you’re a woman of menopausal age and experiencing mood changes, consider that it might be your hormones. For more information on Newson Health, 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.
1:02.3	Today on the podcast I've got someone with me called Louise, who kindly has agreed to share
1:07.7	her story and everything in medicine, a lot of medicine I learn through my
1:12.7	patients. I obviously have got good background knowledge. I learn the science, but actually
1:17.7	when it's patients that I learn from all the time. And so Louise was recommended to see me a while
1:24.1	ago and was not quite as well as she is now, but she's agreed to share her story.
1:29.4	So thanks so much, Louise, for coming on to the podcast.
1:32.2	Great.
1:32.8	How would you like me to start just from the beginning, how we came across, I came across you?
1:37.4	If that's okay, yeah.
1:38.8	Okay, so I'm Australian and I'd been on a holiday in Australia.
1:43.2	And while I was there, I was on the marina coil, had the marina coil fitted, and I'd been on a holiday in Australia and while I was there, I was on the
1:45.7	marina coil, had the marina coil fitted and I'd had that for some years. I've had three children
1:50.4	and I'd finished obviously having children. I had no signs or symptoms of menopause in any way.
1:57.8	But while I was down in Australia, I had this incredibly heavy menstrual bleed, quite
2:03.1	unusually heavy, which obviously those of you who have a marina coil will know is not common.
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