Dr. Louise Newson

And even my children, one of them says she was so scared because she'd never heard me shout at her before and was saying, oh, I'm thinking to herself, oh, gosh, I think when my daddy's going to divorce and what am I going to do?

Because I don't want to stay with her because she's being really horrible, but daddy can't cook and he's like, what should I do?

And they're really young and it...

But it does make me realize the impact of that is really hard for both sexes, really, in different ways.

Yeah, and I think, you know, it's really difficult for people

And, you know, partners of any gender, because I have quite a lot of patients who are in the same sex relationships.

And, you know, both of them are perimenopausal.

That would be insane.

Often people have, everyone's experience is different.

So the symptoms can be different and, you know, they, it can be really difficult.

I've had some patients who you've just treated one of them and they feel really well.

And then the other one maybe is a bit younger or different and then starts, but then they can recognize it a lot quicker.

But it's very difficult and it can be very disconcerting because it's also very hard to tease out, you know, is it because, you know, I've been with my husband for decades?

Is it because of that?

Or is it because of hormones?

Or is it something else?

And if you've got children, then how do you know what's going on?

Because life's busy and everything.

But one of my big issues is that women have often been gaslit and told, oh, you're like this because you're stressed, because you've got three children, because you're working full time, because, because.

They never say that to my husband.