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[lisalashes]

Hi, thanks to all of you for your advice, I am going to try and get an appointment with my Gp tomorrow....I'm so fed up with it all...can't keep putting my family through this, I had the oophorectomy to alleviate the pmt and still feel the same, I'm like an emotional timebomb at the moment. Ideally i would like my uterus removing too but I'm already on an action plan from work re my last surgery.
I'm also so worried about my mums diagnosis too, still can't take it in that she has endometrial cancer despite having a full hysterectomy four years ago.
Sorry for moaning but I don't know who else I can speak to about this x

[GypsyRoseLee]

Hi Lisa

So sorry you are still struggling. It sounds like you have been through the mill. I also can't understand why your surgeon didn't also remove your womb? How odd?

But like others I would strongly recommend that you give this form of HRT a minimum of 3 months. I completely understand your impatience. I know how awful the psychological symptoms of PMS/hormonal depression are, I really do. In the past I have done/said things which I am so embarrassed about, due to the PMS rage.

I am very impatient, and I just want HRT to work RIGHT NOW!!! I have suffered through 16 months of this already and I am sick to death of it. I have just finished my 5th week on HRT and I'm am still quite up and down. At the start of my HRT I had awful insomnia for a few days. Then I slept fine. Then my mood really dipped for several days, but then I was fine for a week. Then my withdrawl bleed came and my mood seriously dipped for 5 days. But since then I have enjoyed a very stable, 'good' two weeks...but then my mood seriously dipped again a couple of days ago. So you can see how up and down it can be.

My mood has improved again, but whether this is due to my increasing my oestrogen dose or whether it would have lifted again naturally, I simply don't know?

But last year I took Amitriptyline for 7 months, when my GP insisted I was just clinically depressed. It started to work 'a bit' within a week. But it certainly wasn't a smooth, straight forward increase. It was very stop/start. And, looking back it was AT LEAST three months before I felt 'reliably' better.

I think HRT must be just the same. So it's really worth persevering with it.

[lisalashes]

Hi

I finally managed to get an appointment with my Gp this morning after a week of trying!

She has referred me back to my consultant and is still totally baffled as to why I was never given a full hysterectomy at the time of my oophorectomy.

In the meantime she has prescribed me Cyclo-Progynova 2mg which she tells me is a cyclical Hrt.
I'll admit I'm a bit scared to try it after the last few weeks of feeling like an emotional timebomb!!

Lisa x