Joint pain, menopause and fibromyalgia with Professor Hasan Tahir

In this episode, I'm speaking to leading rheumatologist Professor Hasan Tahir, about just why we experience joint pain as we age, and what menopause has to do with it.
We're going to discuss everything from common aches and pains right through to conditions such as degenerative disc disease, osteopenia, osteoporosis and fibromyalgia. I want to use this episode to help you understand more about how you can get the right diagnosis for you, plus the range of treatment options, including standard pain relief and lifestyle measures, and when to know when it's time to seek more specialist help.
Professor Tahir is an award-winning specialist in rheumatology, sports medicine and general medicine. He is a consultant at the Royal Free London NHS Trust with several private clinics, and is actively involved in the latest research and the use of new treatments in arthritis. He's been a TV presenter of Life Health Show, and is actively involved in humanitarian work overseas.
00:00 Intro
2:29 Aging and our joints
5:19 Changes with the menopause
6:44 What does a rheumatologist do?
8:16 Fibromyalgia
16:09 Treatment options for pain
22:45 Lifestyle changes
25:04 HRT
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[@lisadavis9993]

Thank you this interview was very informative!!!!!

[@EmmaDee]

Really enjoying your content from the US

[@mardeebrosh6965]

Enjoying this interview but still disappointed by all of medicine that the approach is to teach fibro sufferers to better tolerate pain rather than relieving it. If you have acute pain due to an injury, you get prompt treatment, but if you have chronic pain, you're pretty much out of luck. Leaving people in pain for the rest of their life is not okay just because no one has yet discovered the cause.

[@mardeebrosh6965]

@@Adulthumanfemale84 I thought 🤔 that too for a long time but recently started taking vitamin B 1 and the difference is like night and day. I don't blame my doctor but I think that once I had a fibromyalgia diagnosis, we no longer looked for root causes. I have been ill and even gave up a job that I loved when i may have just had a thiamine deficiency. This probably won't be the case for most people but I think our medical system is doing people a disservice by treating symptoms without figuring out the cause.

[@dirkkatz172]

cause; microwaves