Dr Charlotte Elder

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275 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2019 last heard Mar 2021

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The Hook Up · Endometriosis: what we still don't know · 29 Mar 2021 podcast

So sometimes those cysts can be removed with surgery as well.

It's really important to think of the treatment of endometriosis as being really holistic.

Addressing things like sleep, diet, all of those things actually will make a really significant difference to someone's pain.

Unfortunately, anything that kind of gets lumped as a bit of a woman's issue, and I say that with inverted commas and a bit of an eye roll, um,

often gets ignored and I think it's really, really important that if you have pain or if your periods or your bleeding is getting in the way of your life, you need to go to the doctor and tell them about it and if they don't help you with it, go to another doctor because it's something that's really important and it's really important not to have it dismissed.

I think there's a feeling that, you know, surgery is the way to go and that's the gold standard and that'll sort everything out and that's how you know exactly what's going on.

And it is true, the only way to know what's happening is to have a look.

But we know that

the earlier that people have surgery, the more likely they are to have multiple operations.

And we know that surgery itself is an independent risk factor for chronic pain.

And so that's why we're not just operating on everyone.

Also, laparoscopy itself has a small risk of death, but it's not a risk-free operation.

And so I think that's why often it can feel a bit like doctors are being gatekeepers with surgery.

But I think that the thing that

that I find most distressing about all of these stories is that they weren't believed.

They were made to feel like they should just shut up because it's just the way that things should be.

And that for me, as a caregiver and as a woman, myself, I'm a cis woman, that I think I find that really distressing.

So even if over the course of your treatment journey, a laparoscopy is something that either doesn't happen or happens later in the journey,

that's absolutely no excuse for feeling belittled or demeaned or not heard.

The Hook Up · Why we need to talk about miscarriages · 23 Nov 2020 podcast

Far and away, the majority of miscarriages, so sort of around about ninety percent of them, are caused by when the sperm and the egg meet, they have the wrong amount of DNA.

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