Dr. Louise Newson

People are really resistant to change.

And often, and this is a generalization, of course, people that write the guidelines are not people that are practicing medicine.

So it's very easy to say, oh, it's not on the guideline, therefore I can't give it.

But when you have a patient in front of you, and I do a lot, who's suicidal, who's at the end of their road.

You know, I spoke to someone yesterday, actually, whose mother is 74 and she's reached out to me in desperation.

The daughter's 38 and she's had problems for a long time, but she's close to ending her life because she feels so awful.

So I speak to this woman and

and she started to have problems when she was in her teens with PMS PMDD then she got pregnant and felt amazing really wonderful although she went through a very traumatic time with a partner lots of awful things happened to her but she coped with it because she felt great and then she breastfed for three years and she said she felt good then as soon as she stopped breastfeeding everything changed and

And now she gets scanty periods.

And she said her 11-year-old son has type 1 diabetes.

And she said, I can't look after his health.

He said to me recently, Mummy, you stop taking me out.

You stop doing fun things with me.

She said, I'm trying to work out on my calendar.

Am I going to have any good days this month?

And often they're all bad, but they're really bad before my periods.

I've tried antidepressants, antipsychotics.

I've gone to healing places.

I've, you know, I've done everything.

I said, has anyone spoken to you about hormones?