025 - Missing my Perimenopause - Katie Taylor & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast · Nov 26, 2019 · 28m

In this week's episode, Dr Newson chats to Katie Taylor. From the age of 43 Katie suffered for four years with debilitating perimenopausal symptoms, which had been misdiagnosed as depression by her doctor. It was only when her father, a breast cancer professor, suggested that he thought her symptoms were more likely to be hormonal, did she finally get the right diagnosis from her gynaecologist. Within a month of being on the right treatment (HRT) and off the antidepressants, she felt like her old self again. It was her anger and frustration at having wasted so many years of precious life…