HRT, misinformation and navigating the menopause media minefield with Kaye Adams

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  @helenroscoe1124 · 1 year ago

  Every doctors surgery in the uk needs a Dr Louise in-house    Women are being misdiagnosed and failed each and every day 😮

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• BR

  @brushandshovel6512 · 1 year ago

  I started HRT at 48 and the results have been life changing. My only regret was not starting it in my early 40s!!

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• HB

  @hbuk24601 · 1 month ago (edited)

  When I go and ask for hormones for perimenopause i will say it’s because I want to try avoid what happened to<br>my poor mum as she went into<br>Menopause (with nobody offering her HRT 😔).<br><br>She had a heart attack 54. Was sectioned with severe mental health issues aged 58. &nbsp;Then broke her hip 62 Landing her in a nursing home (died 71).<br><br>I am doing all i can with my lifestyle to prevent this but I am also driven to reach out for HRT to help.

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  @Sam-pk4di · 1 year ago

  Please keep up your amazing work Dr Newson. We need you!

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  @unahorgan6014 · 1 year ago

  I’m Irish and live in Spain, my Irish friends all had symptoms in the peri and started modern HRT early. &nbsp;My Spanish friends all”sailed through it”. &nbsp;Roll on 10 years and my Irish friends are far healthier in mind and body. &nbsp;At 58 my Spanish friends have a generalized fatigue and sleep issues! Even those with a family history of colon cancer don’t want to discuss hormones! The WHI study did so much damage.

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  @joanneorr2948 · 1 year ago

  Brilliantly informative podcast!! It took me 4 attempts with different GPs to get HRT- all the others kept trying to prescribe me anti-depressants even though my presenting symptom was aching joints, stiffness and insomnia. All my symptoms were cured by HRT, yet whenever I have my annual review, the GP talks about taking me off HRT because it&apos;s &quot;dangerous&quot;. When I ask for specific info on what &quot;dangerous&quot; constitutes I get a vague mention of cancer, and when I ask for further info and to see the studies they are basing their advice on, they cannot point to any. Yet they still want me to come off HRT!!! It&apos;s maddening! Fortunately, thanks to Dr Newson, I am well-informed and fight my corner, but I know so many women who are bullied into taking anti-depressants and not using HRT for their menopause symptoms. Yet, when it comes to the contraceptive pill, they hand it out like candy, despite the numerous, well-documented side-effects! Seems suspicious to me!

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  @annawysocka2141 · 8 months ago

  Thank you dear dr Newson for everything. I work as a doctor, consultant radiologist. I received virtually no education about Menopause, discovered I was in Perimenopause when I listened to Womens hour. I will never never never stop taking estrogen, progesteron, fantastic for sleeping, testosteron. Even if I was diagnosed with breast cancer💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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  @jeancass5187 · 1 year ago

  The same thing happened to me Friday during my HRT review. My GP said after 60 it’s time to come off my HRT. &nbsp;I’ve said no as I want all of the benefits ….. why are GPs still thinking this? Is it NHS guidelines….?. Glad we have you to help and guide us.

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  @nicolemerz1731 · 2 months ago (edited)

  I liked the skeptical attitude of the guest . But here is another study &nbsp;from 2024 that might help with that breast cancer SCARE:<br>One of the most important studies on the safety of hormone therapy in menopausal women beyond the age of 65 was published in 2024—yet it received almost no public attention. Researchers analyzed the health records of nearly 10 million American women enrolled in the U.S. Medicare system, making it one of the largest investigations of menopausal hormone therapy ever conducted (Baik et al., Menopause, 2024). During the 2007–2020 observation period, women using estrogen monotherapy showed an approximately 19% lower risk of death from any cause. The study also found lower risks of breast cancer (-16%), lung cancer (-13%), colorectal cancer (-12%), congestive heart failure (-5%), venous thromboembolism (-3%), atrial fibrillation (-4%), acute myocardial infarction (-11%), and dementia (-2%).<br><br>The study was led by researchers from the highly respected Mayo Clinic using nationwide Medicare data. One of its major strengths is that it did not treat all hormone therapies as if they were the same. Instead, the authors carefully distinguished between older oral conjugated equine estrogens, synthetic progestins, and newer low-dose transdermal bioidentical hormone regimens.<br><br>Particularly striking was the finding that low-dose transdermal estradiol therapies generally showed more favorable outcomes than older oral high-dose combinations containing synthetic progestins. This is consistent with a growing body of research suggesting that the route of administration, dosage, timing, and hormone formulation may matter far more than previously assumed.<br><br>Of course, this was an observational study and therefore cannot prove cause and effect. Nevertheless, when nearly 10 million women are studied and the overall pattern consistently points toward lower mortality and better health outcomes, the long-standing assumption that hormone therapy is inherently dangerous for older women becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile with the available evidence.<br><br>Full text (Open Access):<br>https://journals.lww.com/menopausejournal/fulltext/2024/05000/use_of_menopausal_hormone_therapy_beyond_age_65.3.aspx<br><br>PubMed:<br>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38595196/

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  @MichelleSmith-ze3rf · 1 year ago

  Never took contraception pill when younger. Very happy to take HRT now in my 50s . Live abroad and difficult to get because of complete lack of knowledge . Basically it was life changing.

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  @mariacarrillo6249 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Dr. Newson is spot on! There is no money in HRT for pharm a. Here in the US, without insurance (using GoodRx coupons which is nationwide) estrodial is $17-$27 (30 day supply) progesterone $20 (30 day supplies) It’s relatively cheap in compare to all other prescribed meds for menopause symptoms (depression pills, inflammation pills, etc). AND if one has insurance the cost is way less.

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  @HeatherdaFonte · 1 year ago

  Fantastic podcast. &nbsp; Louise, you explain it all so well, without emotion but with facts. &nbsp;I started my journey at 49 after pretty bad menopause issues. &nbsp;At 61, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. &nbsp;My brilliant surgeon was very clear that estrogen had most likely not caused it, but I was taken off it because it was estrogen receptive. <br>After 2 years of absolute hell I begged to go back on hrt and she listened. &nbsp; It gave me my life back. &nbsp; As she said at the time, we cut out the cancer to save you but destroy your quality of life in doing so, which makes no sense.<br><br>I&apos;m so thankful for her and my GP, who fully supported my decision. <br><br>Please keep doing what you do, even if it only helps one woman to live a good life.<br>Thank you.

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