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.

I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.

Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause

and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,

and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.

This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,

which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.

So on my podcast today I've got someone called Susie, who doesn't look like the average

menopause or woman that you Google who's got grey hair with a fan who's middle

age or even in her late 50s. So Susie is young and she's going to share her story which I hope

will help to educate and reassure many people. So thanks for joining me today, Susie. Yeah,

no problem. Yeah, happy to be here. Oh, so just tell me a bit about you and

the age that you were when you became perimenopausal, menopausal, when your hormone levels changed.

It was probably about, so I'm 32 now, and it was probably three or four years ago that I noticed a big change in my hormone levels, in my

energy levels, getting the hot flushes and all of those kinds of symptoms that

were supposed to show that you might be menopausal.

But for me, it was something that I probably

expected because I'd gone through a lot of cancer treatment. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer

when I was 25. So I'd gone through a lot of cancer treatment, chemotherapy, surgeries, various

different things. And finally, I was told that

the last kind of option was to have full abdominal radiotherapy. And so that was kind of the

point where I thought, okay, that's my, I suppose my fertility journey is ended here. And I suppose

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