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[Anjia]

I think after just reading from Taz2 about GAD this is what I have it seems like how I am feeling and have felt for a very long time,the thing is with me I am fine most days but it is always at night I suffer.Then again if I have a real bad night I suffer through the day! I have told my gp so many times about my anxiety but have never been offered any medication the last time it was really bad I was crying in the doctors room he give me a leaflet to take home and read up with some internet site I did, but it made me feel worse !!!

[Galadriel]

Hi Anjia,
How is a blooming leaflet meant to make you feel better? 

Time to see a different GP.

After reading Taz2's link, I really do think I'm back there again and have been since last August
I'm going to see how I feel on the new hrt before I march back and demand some treatment

[Anjia]

Thankyou Galadriel I am going to do exactly that to !!

[Taz2]

Was it Living Life to the Full Anjia?

Taz x

[Anjia]

I cant really remember but I do no there were a lot of people on there talking about how they felt suicidel  and couldent take anymore I really did feel for them but felt oh my god Im not that bad,It made me feel awful.

[Taz2]

This is the one my doc directed me too. It is quite good in terms of lifting your mood which can also help with the anxious feelings http://www.llttf.com/

Taz x

[Wombat]

Hi Galadriel

Been away so unable to post......tried red wine last night !  Didn't work...

I also get twitchy legs, sometimes anxiety driven but other times just because I am soooooo tired.

Magnesium citrate - I am now taking 600mg per night.  I am going to try taking it an hour before I go to bed.... I will let you know

Thinking about trying to set up a menopause support group at work....there seems to be a real resistance to share information

I seem to cycle through symptoms, hoping I might cycle out of not sleeping soon,  I have started exercising - well walking, nothing drastic - and this seems to help

Here's hoping we all sleep well tonight   Xx

[Galadriel]

Hi Wombat,

I had a bucket of wine on Saturday night and I still woke up

I think my twitchiness is a combination of anxiety and tiredness too.

I think I'll start with 300mg to see how I go.

So far I've shared this site with two ladies at work. One of them goes power walking with me at lunchtime to feed the ducks. Makes us both feel a little happier and gets us out of the office, away from the computer screen!

I may cycle out of this in time for the dawn chorus to wake me up instead

Fingers crossed neither of us sees stupid o'clock tomorrow morning

[libbyloo]

Daily mail article today. All about ladies taking testosterone and huge benefits. Feeling sexy, womanly again and lots of symptoms going. Common knowledge? Controversial?

[Galadriel]

I'm not sure it's hugely common knowledge.
I did know about it as I worked in women's healthcare for 15 years - contraceptive pills and hrt, and yes I am aware of the irony that I know so little about this phase in our lives.
We were taught about sweats and flushes, VA, osteoporosis, CV disease but not so much about the psychological effects! The more I think about it, the more I'm annoyed that this huge aspect was ignored!!!

The menopause clinics I visited used testosterone patches for some ladies but it was very new to the market at the time.
I'd forgotten that testosterone is involved in depression and anxiety - but then it has been 8 years since I left that field and I have quite a leaky brain at the moment

Makes interesting reading libbyloo x

[Wombat]

Hi
Interesting reading about testosterone
I had an implant a few years ago to try to help with loss of libido......it did nothing but give me a great big bruise in my tummy where it was implanted.....my gynae told me a good holiday would work just as well.
Ps. Neither helped!

 

[libbyloo]

Recently, my normally lovely sleep pattern vanished. Tossing and turning, reading MM at 2am. Over last five nights I've had a lettuce and salad cream wholemeal sandwich for supper. Sleep restored!!!! Yummy toooo x

[Rowan]

Lettuce does the job libbyloo, I have been known to buy it just for that  http://www.thirdage.com/sleep/let-lettuce-help-you-sleep

You can get the herbal pills too.

[Wombat]

I love lettuce and salad cream sandwiches, I had forgotten all about them .i will certainly try that x

[Joyce]

Here I am in the wee small hours, listening to himself snoring LOUDLY & the birds twittering away outside. Vivid dream woke me, but can no longer remember its content. Clocks have gone forward, depriving me of an hour of much needed slumber. Oh & to top it off it's Mother's Day, when us mums are meant to be pampered. Not much chance of that! Although I am having lunch over at son's later, so maybe, just maybe I can stay in bed until it's time to go.