Dr. Louise Newson
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because so many psychiatrists are not trained in hormones and so many women who have hormonal changes that have been diagnosed are referred to gynecologists who have no training in psychiatry.
So people are just falling in the middle and a lot of GPs aren't trained about PMS and PMDD and treatments or they look at the guidelines which is what I used to do as a younger GP and I used to follow the guidelines and prescribe antidepressants, prescribe synthetic hormones but my patients never really got much better.
And so it's only with a lot of academic interest and research and curiosity and also learning about Katrina Dalton's work have I thought differently about our hormones and how we can prescribe natural bioidentical hormones to women of any age.
When we think about treatment, the hardest part is making the diagnosis and seeing the right people.
In our Newson Clinic, we see a lot of younger women.
We're insured for people over the age of 18, and we see a lot of women who have PMS and PMDD.
Women can make the diagnosis themselves.
They don't need to have an actual... There are criteria that are written in the psychiatry guidelines, but actually...
In my mind, if anyone's having symptoms that are affecting their quality of life, that are in line with their menstrual cycle, so that the symptoms fluctuate throughout the menstrual cycle, then they will have PMS, or if it's more severe, PMDD.
There's no magic blood test, there's no magic scan to make this diagnosis, but women are quite intuitive.
If they think it's related to their hormones, then they're usually right.
And as doctors, we have responsibility for listening to, understanding and believing our patients.
And so often that isn't done.
And so often the right questions aren't asked.
So if your doctor isn't asking your questions about, is there a change in your mood throughout your menstrual cycle, then you should be telling them and informing them and saying, this is related to my menstrual cycle.
I need to be thinking about a hormone treatment as well as any other treatment you might be giving me.
because first-line treatment should be hormones because we can correct the hormonal imbalance and really improve symptoms in women.
So when we talk about hormones, I can't reiterate enough.
I really want to be clear that we should be giving hormones.
We should be prescribing light for light.
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