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.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
What have you been coping with day to day? 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 white. There are so many of them.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I mean, it's such a cliche, right patch, But knowledge
is power. 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 as 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 that 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 1 (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 positions, worked.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
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.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
You have told me up on several occasions about this,
but I'm sorry, I've kept doing it. No, you're not
still doing it?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, I have a once or twice I did this
morning actually before I came in. Yes, I did.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I just shaved my chin. That's okay, 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 place as you do. Yes. Hey,
it's Pats, just jumping back on to thank my rage
against the menopause community for embracing the first series of

(01:52):
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 A women and 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

(02:15):
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 thank my podcast for
helping to educate them and arm them with how to
better support their partners in the years ahead. All of

(02:37):
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
it is for you, maybe a partner, maybe a friend.

(02:59):
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
March Forward and I want you to walk with me

(03:22):
through the maze of metopause and out the other side.
I'm Patrina Jones, Thanks for listening.