Podcast

About the Endo Untangled podcast

The Endo Untangled Podcast is a Thrive Endo Clinic initiative, produced by GP Dr Alecia Macrow and Exercise Physiologist Cherie Noble.

Drawing on their experience working with hundreds of women and AFAB folk with endometriosis and pelvic pain, Alecia and Cherie track down local and international experts to unravel the complexities of pelvic pain and all the conditions that come along with it. The podcast is aimed at health practitioners and patients, focusses providing up to date, practical information, through their signature holistic and compassionate lens.

Episodes are published fortnightly.

You can subscribe and follow wherever you get your podcasts.

Episodes are also uploaded fortnightly on the Thrive Family Practice Youtube page.

Episode 7: Endo Untangled Ep 07: The Fire Truck, The Glue, and the Physios, with Alycia Scannell and Caz Berry

Our collaboration grew out of a cloud of plaster dust, a half-finished practice, a fire engine out the front, and someone quite literally glued to the floor. Out of that chaotic, hilarious day came connection, trust, and the start of a long partnership with pelvic health physiotherapists Alycia Scannell and Carolyn Berry.

In this episode, we talk about what pelvic health physiotherapy actually is, what happens in a consult for someone living with pelvic pain, and why the pelvis can get “cranky.”

Episode 6: Beyond a One-Dimensional View of Pain and Fatigue, with Sophie Sheppard.

In this episode of Endo Untangled, pain-titled physiotherapist Sophie Sheppard shares her lived experience of chronic fatigue (ME-CFS) as a teenager and later discovering she is autistic and ADHD. We unpack the science of persistent pain and how it reverberates through the nervous, endocrine and the immune systems (NEI ensemble) and explore how understanding the whole system impact changes care.

Episode 5: Standing Up to POTS with Dr Marie-Claire Seeley (part 2)

When one episode is not enough! We extended our recording with Dr Marie-Claire Seeley: researcher, lived experience advocate, CEO Australian POTS Foundation and dead-set legend, to talk POTS overlaps including endometriosis, pelvic pain, neurodivergence and hypermobility. We discuss investigation for POTS, how to do and interpret active stand test, what to rule out incl discussing heart tests, and discuss management.

see the POTS foundation website for resources: https://potsfoundation.org.au/

Episode 4: Standing Up to POTS with Dr Marie-Claire Seeley (part 1)

Unwell in central Asia. Dismissed as "just anxiety". Four kids, nursing shifts, and a fight to be believed. Today Dr Marie-Claire Seeley is CEO of the Australian POTS Foundation, using her PhD and lived experience to change care for people with POTS.

see the POTS foundation website for resources: https://potsfoundation.org.au/

Episode 3: Bridging the Gap: Why Endo Conversations Go Off Track – and How to Get Them Back, with Gynaecologist and Pain Physician A/Professor Susan Evans and Women's Health GP Dr Carmel Reynolds.

Why do so many endo appointments leave patients feeling unheard and doctors feeling stuck? In this episode, GP Dr Alecia Macrow and EP Cherie Noble sit down with Prof Susan Evans and Dr Carmel Reynolds to unpack why care can feel like control, why “they just want to put me on the pill” is such a common refrain in forums, and how sharp “ovary pains” aren’t always what they seem.

We talk about:

The disconnect across the desk and how to rebuild partnership
Why hormonal treatments are offered so often (and how to talk about them without shutting down choice)
Stabbing pains, ovary myths, and what’s really going on
Surgery: when it helps, when it doesn’t, and why it’s not the whole story

This is a constructive, honest conversation for patients, clinicians, and anyone wanting to better navigate endo care.

Episode 2: The Pelvic Pain Super Syndrome

Why the fatigue? Why the headaches? Why the lightning arse?!

In this episode, we dive into the messy overlap of gut issues, pelvic floor dysfunction, heavy periods, and crushing fatigue, and why these symptoms so often show up together. Dr Sneha Wadhwani joins us to explore what we’re calling the Pelvic Pain “Super Syndrome” and how recognising these patterns can completely shift how we approach care.

Episode 1: Introducing the Tangle

Exercise Physiologist Cherie Noble and Endo GP Dr Alecia Macrow talk through the 'why' of Endo Untangled, their personal stories, and what they're most looking forward to in the podcast.

Endo Untangled Podcast