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Check out Sunshine's latest post(s) - I think she found HRT and SSRIs were a very stabilizing combination.  Glad you found a combination that works for you.  My husband had the same reaction as you to beta blockers bpm 32 on first pill - yipes.  Glad I checked before he took a second one. When I was put on Coreg (a beta and alpha blocker) I used to say, 'say goodbye to Trey', as I swallowed it because I did feel like I was walking through something thick and simply felt weird for the next 6-8 hours.  I weaned myself off and felt so much better.

Hi tiredout
Don't know if this helps but just found this in the Green Menu:-
Rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis confers an increased risk of osteoporosis, thought to be related to use of steroids, increased bone resorption and reduced weight bearing exercise due to the disease. Use of HRT or other bone protective measures should therefore be considered. The use of HRT does not appear to affect disease progress.
HRT has helped me immensely, especially with anxiety, sleeplessness and tummy problems. Definitely worth a chat with your gp. Good luck and let us know howyou get on.
Bixby x

got my vagifem today at Boots, I told them I would be back soon with a repeat prescription to make sure they had them in stock.



Meggie lead the way  I ' l follow

Well Ladies, I never figured I was underactive but apparently my thyroid is  Had some blood work done and the vampires tell me that my cholesterol is "dangerously" high and that my thyroid is underactive so have to start another med. for this problem.  I was wondering if you have any experience with this and if there is any alternative therapies that you may know of as I hate to take meds. I have been gaining weight but am not fat, just not as I was when I was in my 20's    Am 56 now and I guess post-menopausal, don't really know, still have hot flashes and such but apparently some symptoms that I related to menopause were actually due to the thyroid.  Darn bodies, who knows what's goin' on in there?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks Ladies and HUGS to all

i have only joined the forum today after realising all the symptoms iv,e been having could be due to menopause,i have had tests for palpitations back in april.all came back ok.the last few months i have been feeling lightheaded anxious sick,and not with it,also itching,went to docs yesterday reasured nothing wrong with heart and to cut out coffee,it,s only today when my mum said perhaps it,s menopause,i am going back to see doctor,see what he thinks,i am 50 and i had a hystorectomy in 1995,but was left my ovaries,i don,t know if it would take all these years though to start the menopause,i just hope they put me on hrt can,t carry on like this anymore,the one thing that worries me though is im already on lots of tablets due to rhematoid arthritis,hope to find help on this forum,

Well, been on it about 2 months now. I still don't know how many I'm supposed to take but I take about 3 a day (so tiny sometimes I can't even count them!). The hot flushes, although I'm still getting them, seem less intense and shorter. I'm also suffering with more cold flushes (but those I can handle). My moods seem a bit more even and I don't feel quite so depressed.
At the same time I have stopped the progesterone cream as I'm sure that was just making me angry and wound up a lot.
Maybe it's all in my mind, maybe the Folliculinum is working or maybe after 3 years of continuous drenching hot flushes I am beginning to come out the other side of it all at last. I can but hope!

I'd love to hear from anyone else who has tried this though.....

Hi Ladies

I've tried several, 5 in fact, beta blockers for rapid heartbeat, palpitations etc but unfortunately had NO success with any of them   Yes - they did bring down my BPM but way too much, sometimes it was 30bpm and that gave me terrible chest pain and I felt as though I was walking on water, that was a very strange sensation indeed!  Also, terrible headaches which I have never suffered from - Gp thought they had probably affected my blood pressure

Eventually, I went back on to Anti-depressants and HRT and the problems just disappeared   (Must admit that I had weaned off both of them at the same time - seriously not a good idea )  Now to be honest, I don't know why I did this because at the time my life was not great - dealing with my parent's illnesses/death and my son's schizophrenia, which I thought I'd managed to get over......  Was also concerned about the amount of weight I'd put on   Oh dear - what a mistake....

Don't think I'll be coming off AD's or HRT in the near future - they really make a big difference to my life.  I think for me, the AD's are probably the most important factor, I've recently reduced them by 10mg and feel just fine - but that's it for the next year or so.  I've learned to take any reductions, very slowly indeed.

Sorry, this sounds so garbled but that's how I felt at the time - Garbled!!

Valxx

My new boss wants us to have phones so that they can get hold of us as and when they want. Also because I work on my own and have an accident when I'm out and about.
She brought it to me on Tuesday and on Wednesday it fell into a bucket of water. I did not know this until I emptied the bucket down the loo and heard a clunk. Almost walked away but thought I should take a look.  I was horrified to see it was the new phone.
I took it to the boss and as I handed her the phone I dropped it. She laughed when I told her what had happened and took it to the IT dept to see what could be done. No surprise to learn that they couldn't fix it. 
I did feel bad about it but my friends laughed. I did too. But I don't know how it fell into the bucket of water in the first place. It must have been in there for over an hour at least.
Now they are going to get me another one. I'm not sure they should. 

Hi I *Need* Hope

I'm using Estraderm Patches - about 25 mcg and Cyclogest Suppositries, 200mg every 10 days in 28 - so presumably I'm a Bio-Identical kind of girl   (Lady then )  The two of them have been just fine for me - particularly the Cyclogest because I have really struggled with the other types of "Progesterone" I've been on......

Took me a while to get the Cyclogest prescribed - gp had to seek advice from a colleague to get the correct dosage, but not one within the practice - so took a few days to get the prescription. 

I do still struggle with fatigue so maybe I need something else added into the mix - but where on earth do you go for that?

Valxx

The problem was that there is not any bounce at all and I do love my bounce!

Taz x