Speaker 1: You're listening to a MoMA mea podcast. Welcome to Very Perry.
Speaker 2: I'm Aneali's Todd, I'm a writer here at MMA MIA
Speaker 2: and I am in Perry. Menopause. Well, I think I am.
Speaker 2: Like It's hard to know, right, I mean, I'm a
Speaker 2: forty two year old single mum, constantly wide yet tired.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm on my last nerve in situations
Speaker 2: that I used to handle with ease, and my period
Speaker 2: is about as confused as a chameleon at a skittles factory.
Speaker 2: So we're learning this stuff together. I will hold your
Speaker 2: hand if you promise to hold mine. So we've brought
Speaker 2: together twenty five of the world's leading experts in women's
Speaker 2: health to help sort this shit out for us and
Speaker 2: to keep things simple, Yes please. We've mapped out seven
Speaker 2: main sessions, each on different pery symptoms. There's this session
Speaker 2: on what is going on hell my vagina is broken
Speaker 2: as we look at jenity, rinary syndrome and rogue periods,
Speaker 2: the truth about hormones and HRT, weight gaining Perry and
Speaker 2: what to do about it, managing the mental load, a
Speaker 2: sleep boot camp in Reclaim your Nights, Yes Please, and
Speaker 2: loss of identity and how to find the right support,
Speaker 2: plus a bonus section on sex and skin and hair.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that one. Each session features specialist
Speaker 2: women's healthcare experts as we ask what the is going on? Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I would say that a great way to think
Speaker 2: about Perrymountipries is purity and reverse and then we ask
Speaker 2: now what with an expert panel session discussing management options
Speaker 2: and actionable steps we can do right now. And as
Speaker 2: a little treat at the start of each session, good
Speaker 2: friend of Mamma Mia, comedian Kath Mahoney will be catching
Speaker 2: up with doctor Jinny Mansburg, who is a master at
Speaker 2: explaining what's going on without the confusing medical lingo. Okay,
Speaker 2: here's Kav and doctor Jinny in our first posession.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome to Very Perry. I'm doctor Ginny Mansburg. I'm
Speaker 3: a GP mainly of midlife women. I'm also an author
Speaker 3: and I mainly see women about perimenopause symptoms and hef
Speaker 3: some women think that they know exactly what Perry is like.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of hot flushes and maybe a few
Speaker 3: mood things. Right, that is just maybe five percent of
Speaker 3: the story. Did you know that there are so many
Speaker 3: other symptoms. And before I tell you what they are,
Speaker 3: let me introduce my really good mate, Kath Mahoney. We
Speaker 3: might have had one or two of these.
Speaker 1: I've had quite a lot of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Should we play Perry Bingo?
Speaker 1: I would love to play Perry Bingo.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Okay, what have you got?
Speaker 2: Hit me first? Oh?
Speaker 4: What have I got?
Speaker 1: Well, I've got a bit of brain fog.
Speaker 3: Obviously eighty percent of you will have that, So that's normal.
Speaker 1: Okay, tick hot sweats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, about seventy five to eighty percent of women. We'll
Speaker 3: get that too, key, Yes, seventy five percent of women.
Speaker 3: I was like, I just kept doing COVID tests, I said,
Speaker 3: what is wrong with me?
Speaker 1: I was like, knock covid?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy. What about things like itchy skin? Yes?
Speaker 3: Really common. Have you ever felt like bunks are crawling
Speaker 3: on your skin?
Speaker 1: No? But bugs have crawled on my skin. But that's
Speaker 1: because we live in Australia.
Speaker 2: Okay, we can't blame.
Speaker 1: Harry now, No, that's that's just the cot croaches in
Speaker 1: my building.
Speaker 3: What about your guts? Like, have you been a bit sparty,
Speaker 3: bit blowty that kind of thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but technically I feel like I've been windy since
Speaker 1: I was born, so I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: put that in the Perry category.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wendy mahoney, No, Windy mahoney. I love that.
Speaker 1: What about palpitations, Yes, which I which are like anxiety causing,
Speaker 1: aren't they?
Speaker 3: I was like, is this a heart?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Forty two percent of women get palpitations, even unrelated to anxiety, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, in some studies, up to sixty five
Speaker 3: percent of women get like the mood stuff. Have you
Speaker 3: had any of that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I think my teenage son would say, yes, that mum
Speaker 1: has had strange rage not being emptied over the Apple
Speaker 1: Core in his bedroom a week later. Is it Perry
Speaker 1: or is it just having a teenager?
Speaker 3: That's having a teenager and Perry, you are not alone.
Speaker 3: That is so common.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: What about your vagina? How she going? Well?
Speaker 1: You know, she's probably a nine out of ten. She's
Speaker 1: probably traveling a bit drier than.
Speaker 2: She used to be.
Speaker 4: Is that normal?
Speaker 1: Tick?
Speaker 3: Love that one for you. That's awesome. What about migraines.
Speaker 3: Have you had migraine?
Speaker 1: Yes, but I've always had hormonal migraines tinatus, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: up to thirty percent of people get tinatus, which is
Speaker 1: the ringing in your ears, but also.
Speaker 3: Like vertigo, which I think is a really weird symptom,
Speaker 3: but it's so, so, so common. But we've got forty
Speaker 3: symptoms now that have all been attributed to perimenopause, some
Speaker 3: of which we can explain with biology, some of which
Speaker 3: you've got no idea why they happen. But if you
Speaker 3: are one of the people who's actually experiencing all of that,
Speaker 3: we have got you covered because we are having all
Speaker 3: of the main experts. They're going to be here talking
Speaker 3: to us explaining everything, but most importantly like what you
Speaker 3: can do about it, so you're not left standing there
Speaker 3: going I have no idea what is my next step.
Speaker 2: You are going to feel empowered. You're going to feel
Speaker 2: like you are.
Speaker 3: So glad that you have joined up as you're going
Speaker 3: to have a plan and a path forward. Love this
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 1: Thanks Ginny.
Speaker 2: Justa reminded that doctor Jinny is a doctor, but she's
Speaker 2: not your doctor, and information discussed in this session is
Speaker 2: general in nature. Please speak with your own health care provider. Okay,
Speaker 2: settle yourself in because in the next session on what
Speaker 2: the is going on, we have international perimenopause experts, doctor
Speaker 2: Etunu Johnson shod Pratun explaining, it's not all doom and gloom.
Speaker 4: So the more knowledge and the more prepared you are
Speaker 4: to be able to navigate this fees, I actually let
Speaker 4: you realize that it is something that come celebrated, can
Speaker 4: even be enjoyed. And I know that sounds like, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, enjoy all these symptoms, but actually it can
Speaker 4: make you more aware of your own body.
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