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[itsmetina]

Hello everyone and anyone that can relate - am I just plain crazy because as soon as night time comes along - I am extremely itchy not to mention feeling dried up !  I have been taking vagifem now for 3 weeks but 2 weeks was everyday and now I'm on twice a week.  I haven't been able to get an appointment with my gyno until February 2014! So I haven't been able to try the recommendations of spray for relief.  I just don't get why at night it is the worst time if my life!  Thanks for listening and any feedback.  Just FYI I don't wear underwear at night to try to air out my misery but doesn't work (

[Ju Ju]

Yesterday I made an appointment to see a gynaecologist privately for a different reason. My appointment is for next Monday. The consultation will last up to 1 hour and will cost me £140. Yep a lot of money, but if I feel I have a responsibility to myself and my family to do everything I can to sort my health out. The gynaecologist was recommended by my GP. If you can afford to go privately, click on Find a specialist at the top of the page for information. I hope you can sort things out. 

[Taz2]

Hi - I think I posted before that at your young age you really should consider full HRT. I think you are in your early forties and if the itching and dryness is this bad then it shows you to be in early menopause. Guidelines are that you should really be prescribed HRT until you hit the normal meno age of around 51. The HRT risks don't kick in until after this time because you would be merely replacing what should be yours naturally. Your GP will be able to sort this out for you - there is no need, as far as I can see, to wait to see a gynae.

Taz

[Tingly]

Please, please take tazs advice. I am 49 and went through a living hell, largely due to not taking a large enough dose of oral hrt early enough, thinking i wasdoing the right thing.
Do make an appointment, possibly ask for a blood test to guage your hormone levels, taking notr of where you are in the cycle,
Please do not let this dryness etc take too much of a hold as it can lead to bladder and urethra atrophy which is a nightmare to live with

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[itsmetina]

Thank you - I will get more hrt as this is not a comfortable life right now !
Just scared bc my mom died of cancer non related to this stuff but still freaks me out.  I however need to get help with hrt.  Thanks everyone for your input and advice, I will take it

[CLKD]

Can you tell us more about your Mum's cancer?  There is a lot of controvasy about HRT if the big 'C' is mentioned  but it really does depend on quality over quantity of Life.  Make a double appt. with your GP if necessary, take a list of symptoms and worries and go through them.

[CLKD]

I used to feel worse at night because I can't get to anyone, the World is quiet ....... now I'm worse in the morning and love my evening bath and very good book 

[Cassie]

Ask for the bio identical HRT like  Oestrogel and Utrogestan and yes, you are just replacing what your body cannot make and should be making, you are doing yourself an injustice by being so young and not topping up, these horrmones are not like Premarin etc and some of the progestegins which can lead to breast cancer scares, you really will feel a whole load better once you start the gel. Do it, I also took a load of encouraging and took the plunge @ 40 and havent looked back, all the best. x

[itsmetina]

My mom was misdiagnosed with acid reflux when in fact she had Thyroid Cancer.  By the time they figured it out with a lot of my screaming at the doctors - she was stage 4.  She was operated and they told us all is clear - she did radiation and iodine and that was it - we were so happy.  A year later she had hip pain excruciating - we took her for a cat scan and her cancer spread to her bones.  My mom suffered so much that it's been almost 2 years and I am still very emotional thinking about it.  My mom was the world to us and my 3 boys.  This really traumatized me and I cannot seem to trust anything doctors have to say or prescribed and this is why I've waited to get more help for menopause .  At first they told me it's stress from my moms death and my period will come back but it never did and it's been 2 years just like her passing.  Thank you for being interested in my story.

On a brighter note I booked with my doctor on September 16th and I will ask for the gels mentioned (I wrote them down). I continue to take vagifem twice a week but that does zip for the exterior . 

I cannot thank you enough
For your support and wish you all comfort and health.  Tina

[Ju Ju]

With love to you Itsmetina.

[CLKD]

Such a sad story and so un-necessary.  If only the medics would listen 

Have you thought of increasing the doseage for 10 days to see if there is an improvement?

[Hurdity]

Hi itsmetina

If you are outside the UK the names of the HRT may well be different. Estorgel I think is available everywhere but bio-identical Progesterone is not eg not yet available in Oz as far as I know. In US it's called something different - not Utrogestan I don't think. The proper name for it is "micronised progesterone" - but will be branded differently.

So depends where you are - may need to google the products in your country if not UK?

Hurdity  x

[itsmetina]

Thank you.  I live in Canada- I'll google and see what's available here.  Much appreciated