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 today on the podcast I have someone called Christiane, who reached out to me a little while

ago from the other side of the world to me. She's in Australia and she told me her

story which really resonated because it's similar to many, many stories that I hear all the time

actually. Lossvid is about women not being listened to but also women who have more than one

diagnosis that often aren't just put into one sort of diagnostic box

and given one treatment and off you go, when it's more complicated, sometimes it can unsettle

and unnerved doctors and sometimes it can be very difficult to be heard to get the right treatment.

So Christian's very kindly agreed to share her story so it can

empower others and make changes to other people's lives going forward. So hopefully they don't

suffer as long as you have before you finally feel better. So welcome from Melbourne.

Thank you, Louise. And thank you for all the amazing work you've done for decades,

long before, you know, that menopause was in as light geist or being spoken about.

Oh, thank you.

So you, like many women actually, have endometriosis, which I've spoken about on the podcast before,

and I'm sure I'll speak again.

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