Mini Episode : Thru The Maze of Menopause

Encouraged by the positive response to her 1st Series of Rage Against The Menopause, Patrina makes a call to action to her community in helping to break down the stigma of Perimenopause and Menopause!  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Your career is absolutely flying, but you've been dealing with
perimenopause behind the scenes. What have you been coping with
day to day?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You know, the worst thing probably is the lack of sleep,
hot flushes, all the typical sort of things. But the
symptoms are so just so wide. There are so many
of them.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I mean, it's such a cliche, right patch, But knowledge
is power.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
To go to the GP.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Knowing which symptoms you might have a good GP is
absolute gold. What I find really frustrating is that perimenopausal
period that it's a tunnel and you don't know how
far through the tunnel you are, how long the tunnel is,
And you can go to a GP, even a specialist,
and they can't there's nothing definitive. It's like, well, am

(00:43):
I or aren't I? And the fact that you can't
get a bad answer. Anxiety is so common, isn't it
in menopause? That was for me the hardest symptom of
all was my mental health and were sorry that took me.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Most women who were going through it I kind of
at the peak of their careers, right, so they've reached
a point where they're competent and they're confident and they're
potentially in really quite powerful position, worked.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
All these decades to get to the point where they are.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
And so to then be undermined, Yes, by their hormones.
You have told me off on several occasions about this,
but I'm sorry. I've kept doing it. No, you're not
still doing it? Well, I have once or twice. I
did this morning actually before I came in. Yes, I did,
just shaved my chin.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
That's if you go into a laser as a follower.
I fine with hair. It grows in the places where
you don't want it and not in the places you do.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Hey, it's Pats, just jumping back on to thank my
rage against the menopause community for embracing the first series
of my podcast. It's really reaffirmed what I already knew
that women need a podcast like mine, that they want
a podcast like this because we haven't been doing a
great job of supporting perimenopausal and menopause are women, and

(02:07):
they're not feeling heard or validated in what they're going through.
I'm really overwhelmed by the messages I'm getting from women
of all ages, women thrown into early menopause because of hysterectomies,
daughters of mums who never really understood until now what
it was their poor mum was going through. And men,
some as young as thirty, who thanked my podcast for

(02:31):
helping to educate them and arm them with how to
better support their partners in the years ahead. All of
us have a role in helping to break this stigma
around menopause, and we need to keep the conversation going,
which is where you, as a listener to Rage against
the Menopause comes in. I'd love you to drop me
a message on Insta Petrina Jones Newman and share how

(02:55):
it is for you, maybe a partner, maybe a friend.
It may even be a question for an expert that
you want me to pose. Use me and this podcast
as your go between for support. Series two is coming
along with another Hot Flush, launching around International Women's Day
on March eight, twenty twenty five. It carries the theme

(03:19):
March Forward and I want you to walk with me
through the maze of metopause and out the other side.
I'm Patrina Jones, Thanks for listening.