About this episode

This episode features a conversation with Dr Áine Dempsey about women's health issues, including heavy bleeding and the Mirena coil.

How many women quietly put up with heavy bleeding, painful periods or a difficult coil fitting, telling themselves it is just part of being a woman? In this episode, Laura sits down with obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Áine Dempsey, who works at BlackRock Women's Health and at the Rotunda, for an honest, practical conversation about the things women are so often told to live with - and what can actually be done about them. Áine explains what a hysteroscopy really involves, why polyps and fibroids drive heavy bleeding, and when the Mirena coil is the right first step before ablation or surgery. She is candid about pain relief during coil fittings, the six-month settling period, and where the copper coil fits in. The conversation moves into perimenopause and HRT, smear tests, HPV and colposcopy, and the realities of painful sex, vaginismus and caring for women who carry past sexual trauma. She closes on labour ward life, her own two pregnancies, the magic of epidurals, and why no woman should feel she has to suffer in silence. At its core, this episode is about taking your own symptoms seriously and making your gynae health a priority. 🔑 Key Points Heavy bleeding is not…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Dowling

Guest: Dr Áine Dempsey

Topics covered

• heavy bleeding
• women's health
• gynaecology
• Mirena coil
• painful periods
• perimenopause
• sexual trauma

Keywords

• heavy bleeding
• Mirena coil
• hysteroscopy
• pain relief
• perimenopause
• HPV
• vaginismus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BlackRock Women's Health, Rotunda

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