525- A Patient’s Guide to Talking with Your Doctor About ADHD and Menopause
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Lotta Borg Skoglund, M.D., Ph.D., explains how fluctuating hormone levels can worsen ADHD symptoms at different stages of life and influence medication effect, how to differentiate between ADHD and menopausal symptoms — and how to talk about all of this with your doctor.
ADHD in Perimenopause & Menopause: More Resources
- Download: Menopause & ADHD: Treatments & Interventions
- Replay: The Emotional Lives of Girls with ADHD
- Read: “How I Restarted My Life After a Post-Menopausal ADHD Diagnosis”
- Advocate: We Demand Attention! A Call for Greater Research on Women with ADHD
- eBook: How Hormones, Symptoms & Late Diagnoses Impact Females with ADHD
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi everyone my name is Annie Rogers and on behalf of the attitude team I am |
| 0:19.4 | pleased to welcome you to today's ADHD expert's presentation titled A Patient's Guide to |
| 0:26.9 | talking with your doctor about ADHD and menopause. |
| 0:31.7 | Leading today's presentation is Dr. Lata Borg Scogland. Dr. |
| 0:36.4 | Scogland is an author, keynote speaker, an entrepreneur from Sweden. Her specialty is in psychiatry, addiction, and family medicine with a focus on ADHD. Dr. |
| 0:50.6 | Scoglin is currently an associate professor at Uppsala University in the Department for |
| 0:56.1 | Women's and Children's Health, where she researches, ADHD, comorbidities, and gender influences. |
| 1:04.6 | She's specifically interested in how hormones |
| 1:08.0 | affect mental health across the female lifespan. |
| 1:12.1 | Together with colleagues from around the world, |
| 1:14.1 | she leads the pioneering research group, Goddess ADHD. |
| 1:20.8 | From brain fog and memory problems to emotional meltdowns, the hormonal challenges of |
| 1:26.5 | pareomenopods hit women in midlife as they are often also juggling the demands of children, aging parents, careers, and family |
| 1:36.6 | logistics. |
| 1:38.7 | In an attitude survey of nearly 5,000 women with ADHD, 63% of respondents age 45 and older said ADHD had the |
| 1:49.5 | greatest impact on their lives during pereminopause and menopause. However, medical research has long |
| 1:57.6 | ignored this relationship and as you all know, patients concerns are too often dismissed. |
| 2:05.0 | So in today's webinar, Dr. Scugland will empower women by sharing the evidence on menopause on ADHD that does exist. |
| 2:15.0 | So discuss how to approach treatment conversations |
| 2:18.2 | with your doctor and what life beyond menopause |
| 2:21.5 | can look like when you have ADHD. |
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