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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Pats from The Christian O'Connell Show.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for downloading episode one of my new podcast series,

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Speaker 2: Rage Against the Menopause. Entering Perimenopause, you know, I was

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Speaker 2: really grappling for some clarity and reassurance. I kind of

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Speaker 2: felt a bit ripped off, to be honest, after a

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Speaker 2: lifetime of polycystic ovarian syndrome and endometriosis, I thought, hang on,

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Speaker 2: now I've got to go through this.

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Speaker 1: I think this is something that we need to talk about.

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Speaker 2: And every time I've touched on it on the show,

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Speaker 2: We've had an overwhelming response from listeners saying we need

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Speaker 2: to talk about it, and I agree. We need to

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Speaker 2: remove the stigma. We talk so much about pregnancy, conception, childbirth,

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Speaker 2: why not menopause. I'm out to change that. I do

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Speaker 2: want to change the narrative. I'm hoping that by me

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Speaker 2: being candid about my own experience that we can build

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Speaker 2: a community of support for other women.

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Speaker 1: It is a no holds barred chat.

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Speaker 2: We cover a lot of things, a lot of topics,

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Speaker 2: helping to remove the stigma and show the power strength

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Speaker 2: that comes with menopause. This episode, it's titled The Lady Garden.

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Speaker 2: It features doctor Sarah White, CEO of gene Hale's for

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Speaker 2: Women's Health, Australia's first women's health clinic, only the second

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Speaker 2: in the world dedicated to menopause.

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Speaker 1: I hope you get something from it.

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Speaker 2: My very first and very special guest is doctor Sarah White,

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Speaker 2: who I have known for quite some time at the

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Speaker 2: Anti Cancer Council and the Quick Campaign.

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Speaker 1: I think must be twenty years.

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Speaker 3: Sarah, Well, you and I haven't known each other that long,

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Speaker 3: but yes, quit's been around for thirty years and you

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Speaker 3: and I have been talking for oh seven or.

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Speaker 2: Eight maybe seven or eight so, and you, of course

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Speaker 2: are at the gene Hales Foundation in Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Thank you. Tell me about the gene Hales Foundation

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne. Sure so.

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Speaker 3: The gene Hales was an extraordinary doctor and she set

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Speaker 3: up the first menopause clinic in Australia and it was

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Speaker 3: only the second in the world because she recognized that

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Speaker 3: women just were not getting the care and attention. And

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Speaker 3: legend has it that the very first day she opened

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Speaker 3: about it. And the second day she opened the clinic,

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Speaker 3: there were women lined up around the block to come

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Speaker 3: in and talk to doctor Hale's. Now tragically, doctor Hales

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Speaker 3: died at a relatively young age, and so her colleague

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Speaker 3: started the Gene Hales Foundation in her honor, and so

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Speaker 3: gen Hales for Women's Health Today is our training name,

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Speaker 3: if you like, and we cover a whole range of

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Speaker 3: women's health issues, not just menopause, but a whole range

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Speaker 3: of women's health issues that we sometimes called the lady

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Speaker 3: garden between the navel and the knees.

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Speaker 2: So let's talk minopause. So it's something I am definitely

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Speaker 2: going through. When I look back on it, I actually

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Speaker 2: think I probably started at about thirty nine, because I

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Speaker 2: and I thought I've been rushing around, you know, dropping

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Speaker 2: But now when I look back, I think it was

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Speaker 2: a progression from that point.

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Speaker 2: The start of my hot flushes, and I also got vertigo.

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Speaker 1: What let's get to the basics. What is menopause? How

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Speaker 3: Well, it's actually a really tricky definition in some ways

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Speaker 3: because you don't know that you've hit menopause until after

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Speaker 3: And if you're a woman who's experienced really terrible periods,

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Speaker 2: how far through the tunnel you are, how long the

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Speaker 3: A tell me, yeah, it would be great if we

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Speaker 4: Now here and your tunnel.

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Speaker 3: Your tunnel is six and a half months, yes, two

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Speaker 1: The hard thing to manage.

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Speaker 3: And I find it because you know, I'm the same

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm trying to get it. A dead brain moment,

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Speaker 2: experience is different. What I've found frustrating, and I've spoken

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Speaker 3: You know when those symptoms start to really impact your

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Speaker 3: see them. Easier said than done for rural and regional

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Speaker 3: If the symptoms are really interfering with your life, you

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Speaker 3: And we really know that there's a lot of women

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Speaker 3: You should talk to your doctor all the time when

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Speaker 2: Why is it such a dirty word. Why can't we

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Speaker 2: open the conversation. It's a perfectly normal stage of life.

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Speaker 3: Every woman, every person with ovaries is going to go

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Speaker 3: And I think it has to do with gendered ageism.

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Speaker 1: And shovy up in the top page get about you.

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Speaker 3: of women believe are due to menopause and they're not.

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Speaker 3: So there's a lack of knowledge around symptoms that I

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Speaker 3: think is not helpful.

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Speaker 1: Let's bust some of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah sure, So it's easy to go with the ones

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Speaker 3: that people don't recognize a part of menopause. So joint pain,

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Speaker 3: for example, Oh.

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Speaker 1: My god, some days I'll walk like an eighty year

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Speaker 1: old woman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So joint pain can definitely be a menopause factor.

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Speaker 3: But I was going to suggest that you can go

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Speaker 3: to gene Hale's website or to the Australasian Menopause Society

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Speaker 3: website and we both have questionnaires that you can fill

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Speaker 3: in and say, what are the symptoms I've got, what's

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Speaker 3: the extent of the problem. Just filling that in and

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Speaker 3: then taking it to your doctor can be a really

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Speaker 3: great way of tracking how you're doing, helping your doctor

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Speaker 3: focus on the issues, the most important issues for you,

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Speaker 3: because sometimes it's about symptom management, yes, and then also

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Speaker 3: you can keep tracking it to see how the symptoms

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Speaker 3: are resolving or not.

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Speaker 2: It's like a snapshot, isn't it, Because I think as women,

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Speaker 2: as you say, we're busy. We might have families, we've

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Speaker 2: got elderly parents, where career women we're just it's like

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Speaker 2: a marathon each week just getting to the finish line

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Speaker 2: and we push our needs to the side.

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Speaker 1: For everyone else.

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Speaker 2: I think you do it and it takes probably the

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Speaker 2: five minutes to sit down, tick the boxes what you

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Speaker 2: need to and get that snap.

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Speaker 3: Shot absolutely and then where you do have you know,

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Speaker 3: we get lots of reports of doctors.

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Speaker 4: Oh, look, it's just metopause. Don't worry about it. You

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Speaker 4: have to do with it.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, you don't not.

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Speaker 3: But filling in something like a symptom checklist can help

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Speaker 3: you go, well, actually I don't have that or that

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Speaker 3: or that or that.

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Speaker 4: You know that's a problem.

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Speaker 3: Well, actually, so what else is going on in my

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Speaker 3: life that might be the problem here? Yeah, And I

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Speaker 3: think it's really important to dig into what the problem is,

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Speaker 3: not just immediately say oh, it's just menopause.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, we don't have to put up with it.

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Speaker 4: Let's work out what the real problem is. An address

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Speaker 4: for more.

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Speaker 2: Information, gene Hailes for Women's Health provides free, evidence based

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Speaker 2: health information for all women.

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Speaker 1: You can head to genehals dot org dot au.

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Speaker 2: I'm Patrina Giants and join me for episode two Miserable

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Speaker 2: Magical Menopause, where I chat to Ossie author Allison Daddo

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Speaker 2: about her bestseller Queen Menopause, Finding Your Majesty in the

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Speaker 2: Mayhem