Feeling Lost: Menopause support & how to navigate the health care system, with Psychotherapist & Menopause Activist, Diane Danzebrink

In our third episode Katie speaks to Diane Danzebrink about her own menopause experience, how to get the best treatment from your healthcare team, the training GPs receive and her #MakeMenopauseMatter campaign.

CONTENT WARNING - this episode contains discussion of suicide. 

In this episode:

0:22 Where’s it all gone wrong?
2:00 Life expectancy
4:00 Where has education and care gone wrong?
6:30 Lack of GP training and public education
11:05 Diane’s menopause journey
25:08 What are the right steps to getting the right treatment on day one?
30:24 The campaign
36:30 How to get involved

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Links from this episode:

Perimenopause and Menopause symptom checklist https://www.lattelounge.co.uk/the-34-symptoms-of-perimenopause-and-menopause-symptom-checker/

NICE guidance on the menopause https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng23

How and where to get help for menopause: https://www.lattelounge.co.uk/menopause/how-and-where-to-get-help/ 

Menopause Support and the Make Menopause Matter campaign https://menopausesupport.co.uk/

Sign the Make Menopause Matter petition: https://www.change.org/p/make-menopause-matter-in-healthcare-the-workplace-and-education-makemenopausematter 

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It was produced by Emily Crosby Media.

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