Make some noise

We’ve come a long way with the menopause conversation, and yet experts say women are still soldiering on and waiting for symptoms to pass. There might be a better way – and it starts with something we all know how to do.

WORDS by BROOKE LE POER TRENCH

“‘You are the teapot that is pouring into all these cups. You can’t do that if you’re empty.’ I have to keep saying to patients, ‘You are important.’”– Dr M Talat Uppal When writer and speaker Jo Pybus was approaching the middle of her life, she thought she knew what was coming. “Hot flushes and the gradual slowing of my period until it stopped,” she says. “What I did not expect was four years of more frequent, heavier periods and anxiety.” On reflection, it’s perhaps no wonder she wasn’t prepared. “The only conversation I’d ever had with my mother was when she said, ‘Oh well, at least when you get to your menopause you can keep things cleaner down there’.” They both had a giggle and the subject didn’t came…

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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2021

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