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've got the most incredible person with the most amazing and very inspirational,

but also very sad and frustrating story with me today.

So someone called Lisa, who actually came to one of our events and shared her story. And my staff

said, oh my goodness me, you've got to talk to Lisa. And so on a Saturday morning, I spoke to

Lisa and said, please can you come and share your story on the podcast.

It's going to be a hard listen, but it's a really important story. So welcome, Lisa.

Hi. Thank you, Louise, for having me today.

So it's a long story. So we're going to try and keep it as brief as possible so we can get as much information out.

So if you just don't mind just by starting Lisa, how old are you?

I'm 54 now, nearly 55.

Okay.

So we're similar ages and you've got two sons?

I have 22 and 24.

So tell me about things before it came to the bigger story, how your sort of health was

and how you were and whether you knew much about the sort of perimenopause and menopause.

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