Sarah Has Questions

Life without healthy boundaries can result in anger, dread or frustration. Setting boundaries is a learned skill and if you’re a people pleaser who doesn’t like to say no, it’s probably a skill you find challenging. 

Dr. Micah Krempasky from WakeMed answers Sarah’s questions about boundaries and self-care, including how to start examining your own relationships for triggers that signal your boundaries need some work. 

Find Dr. Krempasky at wakemed.org. Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions. 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action. 

PCOS affects up to 15% of women and is usually diagnosed in the teen years. The hormonal imbalance can be tied to insulin resistance, high triglycerides, metabolic syndrome and an increase in the male hormone, androgen. You can bet Sarah King has a lot of questions about this one! Dr. Darlene Esper from WakeMed covers the causes, symptoms and treatments. 

Find Dr. Esper at wakemed.org. Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions. 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action. 

Most women will get a urinary tract infection (or UTI) at some point. Yes, men can get them too, but they’re more common for women. With the rectum, vagina and urethra in close proximity, there’s bound to be some cross contamination.  

So how can we avoid UTIs? Nurse Practitioner Emily Shama Barnes answers Sarah’s questions about causes, symptoms, treatments and whether cranberry juice is a cure all. We also discuss the symptoms of UTIs in older people. They’re not at all the same as for younger people! 

Find Emily Shama Barnes (who specializes in urogynecology) at wakemed.org. Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions. 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action.  

Endometriosis sucks! It affects 10-15% of women and there is no cure. It’s a painful condition where cells from the uterine lining end up outside of the uterus. Those cells can attach to your cervix, bladder, bowel or other organs. And they continue to be affected by your monthly cycles just like regular uterine tissue.  

Sarah King talks to Dr. Adam Kansagor, an OB-GYN with Wake Med Health and Hospitals about symptoms, treatments, and why simply getting a diagnosis can be difficult. 

Find Dr. Kansagor at wakemed.org. Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions. 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action.  

WTH is a boric acid vaginal suppository? If you've been down the “female hygiene” aisle at the drug store lately you've probably seen them. And there are hundreds of products out now that claim to tackle vaginal pH balance and reduce odor. Do we really need these things? Are soap and water not enough? 

Dr. Victoria Fashakin, an OB-GYN from WakeMed in Raleigh, NC, answers Sarah’s questions on vaginal health. And side note: the whole region includes a lot more than the vagina. Dr. Fashakin walks us through the vulva and why it’s important to call things what they are! 

Find Dr. Fashaskin at wakemed.org. Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions. 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action. 

The opinions expressed in this episode do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Capitol Broadcasting Company or WakeMed Health and Hospitals.   

We could ask questions about sex and sexual dysfunction all day. We tackled the first round of questions in an episode in season one. Now Dr. Jenna Beckham is back to answer more of Sarah’s questions, including:  

What exactly happens during an orgasm? 

Is wanting less sex really a dysfunction, or is every human just built different? 

Do straight and lesbian women bring up different sexual concerns? What about different generations? 

Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions. Find Dr. Beckham at wakemed.org. 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action. 

We’ve been conditioned to believe “obesity is an epidemic,” but can a person be healthy AND overweight? Are the old standards of obesity and BMI really applicable when human beings come in all shapes and sizes? 

Sarah talks with Dr. Tiffany Lowe Clayton, a bariatrician with WakeMed, about body image, obesity, weight loss and the idea that we can be “healthy at any size.” They also dive into weight loss medication (especially the current fad of semaglutides) and how they work. 

Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action. 

Plantar fasciitis can take months to resolve. If you’ve ever had it (and 1 in 10 of us will at some point), you know it’s an ordeal. Sarah tackles plantar fasciitis, bunions and bone spurs with Dr. Corey Thompson, an orthopaedic surgeon at WakeMed who specializes in feet and ankles. 

Sarah and Dr. Thompson will also assess several types of women’s shoes for stability, comfort and how much strain they put on our feet.  

Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action.

Pregnancy takes a major toll on the human body. Those nine months are tough enough, and even when it’s over most of us never revert to our pre-baby shapes and sizes. 

In this episode Sarah asks totally unfiltered questions about everything from nipples and hair loss to permanent changes in shoe size after having a baby. And you know, we’re gonna talk about pelvic floors...again. 

Answering Sarah’s questions is Dr. Jessica Schloesser an OB/Gyn at WakeMed. 

Send your questions to Sarah at wralfm.com/sarahhasquestions 

DISCLAIMER: The information presented in this podcast is intended to be educational and nothing said by the host or guests should be taken as medical advice. The information presented here is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Your health is important, and seeking the advice of your own healthcare provider is always the best course of action.