{"id":1681,"date":"2018-07-19T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2018-07-19T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:06:46","slug":"1681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Menopausal Woman in the Latte Lounge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Menopause Support founder Diane Danzebrink joined Loose Women’s Andrea McLean and a studio audience of 70 to live-blog<\/a> a “Confessions of a Menopausal Woman” event on Facebook.<\/p>\n

The event, recorded in Mill Hill, London, was streamed to the Latte Lounge group’s 13,000 members via Facebook and at the time of writing more than 4,000 women had watched it.<\/p>\n

Katie Taylor, Founder of The Latte Lounge,\u00a0started the day confessing about her own 4 years of\u00a0peri-menopausal hell where she was misdiagnosed with depression and prescribed anti-depressants, when she should\u2019ve been given HRT and a hysterectomy. \u00a0It was this experience that led her to start the\u00a0Facebook\u00a0group\u00a0\u00a0and launch the new Latte Lounge website.<\/p>\n

Andrea McLean is a Scottish television presenter best known for her work with ITV. McLean was a weather presenter for GMTV between 1997 and 2008, and is a co-presenter on ITV’s daytime chat show Loose Women.<\/p>\n

After Andrea\u00a0told her own story, she joined The Latte Lounges own panel of experts;\u00a0Dr\u00a0Suzanne\u00a0Saideman (Menopause\u00a0GP), Di Danzebrink\u00a0(Menopause counselor), Caron\u00a0Barruw\u00a0(Psychotherapy),\u00a0Marcelle\u00a0Rose(Nutrition), Natasha Harris\u00a0(Mindfulness)\u00a0and Maryanne Taylor\u00a0(Sleep), who came to support the group for a Q&A.<\/p>\n

What came out of this discussion was fascinating.\u00a0 Many commented on how GP\u2019s are just not that well informed or aware of the\u00a0NICE<\/a>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>guidelines. \u00a0Some members confessed that they had been told to just \u2018get on with it\u2019 and were treated for depression. \u00a0The story was repeated over and over, both from the women in the audience and from our members commenting online.<\/p>\n

Di,\u00a0a psychotherapist with menopause nurse training, confessed:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI too set up The Menopause Support Network\u00a0(on Facebook)\u00a0because\u00a0there was no\u00a0support group\u00a0available online when I needed help. \u00a0I was never counseled before or after my hysterectomy about the horrendous\u00a0psychological\u00a0after\u00a0effects\u00a0that I would experience\u00a0and I don\u2019t want anyone else to suffer the way I did. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>As well as providing support and information to women, I am passionate about campaigning\u00a0for change\u00a0and\u00a0I have identified that\u00a0we need 3 things: Far better\u00a0GP\u00a0education, information about the menopause included in the PHSE curriculum and greater awareness and support in the workplace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Menopause Support founder Diane Danzebrink joined Loose Women’s Andrea McLean and a studio audience of 70 to live-blog a “Confessions of a Menopausal Woman” event on Facebook. The event, recorded in Mill Hill, London, was streamed to the Latte Lounge group’s 13,000 members via Facebook and at the time Read more about Confessions of a Menopausal Woman in the Latte Lounge<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}