S1E139: How To Cope With Perimenopause And Menopause Health Check podcast

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S1E139: How to cope with perimenopause and menopause

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Learn how to manage bothersome symptoms that typically emerge in the four to five years before a woman's final menstruation.

Synopsis: Every first Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you.

Perimenopause is the stage before menopause that many women here do not talk about, largely due to stigma or a lack of awareness.

That menopause, which marks the end of a woman's natural fertility, affects not just her reproductive organs but her whole body, adds a layer of confusion as it can sometimes be hard to distinguish between menopause and other issues or normal ageing.

In this episode, senior health correspondent Joyce Teo speaks to Associate Professor Rukshini Puvanendran, the co-director of the KK Menopause Centre, to counter the misinformation out there.

Prof Ruskhini is also the head and a senior consultant at the Family Medicine Service at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH).

Highlights (click/tap above):

2.28 Symptoms of perimenopause

7.23 Older women can still have hot flushes

11.03 Some women develop an awareness of their heartbeat

18:39 What can women do about their symptoms?

30:08 The four symptoms of menopause that doctors won't argue about

31:59 Oestrogen cream to treat vaginal dryness and urinary incontinence

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Host: Joyce Teo ([email protected])

Produced and edited by: Amirul Karim

Executive producers: Ernest Luis and Lynda Hong

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Chapters

1. How to cope with perimenopause and menopause (00:00:00)

2. Symptoms of perimenopausal period (00:02:28)

3. Older women can still have hot flushes (00:07:23)

4. Some women become aware of their heartbeat (00:11:03)

5. What can women do about their symptoms? (00:18:39)

6. The four symptoms of menopause (00:30:08)

7. Oestrogen cream for vaginal dryness (00:31:59)

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