Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[CLKD]

'they' don't prescribe HRT  …….. I consider that un-ethical, not in the hypocratic oath at all! and I would be sending an e-mail to the Surgery asking for References to Research which says that symptoms return - after all we can now keep taking HRT for ever, obviously your Surgery is unaware of recent 'guide lines'!

See how you get on.  It can take a month before some medications kick in .  Keep a diary.  Also you might consider after your next appt. sending a private e-mail to Dr Currie for proper advice! the fee charged is on here somewhere 

[Bluebell59]

Thanks CLKD, I will keep a diary.  I'm always ill, just one of those people and I need the surgery, but I do know where you are coming from and thanks, thanks for listening and responding 

[CLKD]

I used to always feel ill usually due to anxiety caused by the phobia I suffer with  but my GP was always supportive.  Without which I wouldn't be sitting here!

I could spit bricks at the lack of support ladies get 

Have a browse round 

[Bluebell59]

I was expecting hrt but I'll try this for a month then review the whole thing sparkle.

[EllaM]

Hi Bluebell, so sorry to hear about your troubles. I too have also had thyroid problems to contend with having being diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Everyone thought my symptoms were down to my thyroid but after having it removed it soon became obvious that they weren't.

I have seen a specialist for my peri meno symptoms and although she was aware of me being on thyroid meds prescribed me hrt. She also said that if my GP tried to stop the hrt after 5 years then I should change my GP!

It makes me mad how little GPs know about menopause symptoms and how to treat them so we have to research things for ourselves and battle to get some relief.

Keep strong.

Marie xx

[Bluebell59]

EllaM,
I am pleased that you have a specialist who knows what they are doing. I think GP's do know how to treat someone with the menopause and actually choose not too - power and control you see 

[Hurdity]

Hi Bluebell59

This is terrible! You absolutely should not have been prescribed sertraline as first line of treatment for menopausal symtpoms unless your health means you are contra-indicated or if you strongly don't want it!!!!!!!

I would not take it! You were expecting HRT and this is what you should have been given. The new NICE guidelines (currently in draft and due to be relased in the autumn) say as much so your doc is out of date. It is so easy to take oestrogen replacement if you've had a hysterectomy too.

How dare they say they don't like to prescribe HRT!!! This is outrageous. Yet another example of women not being helped by the medical profession!

Please go back (with your husband if necessary) and see a different doctor in the practice - find out which one supports giving HRT. ADs are good if women are unable to take HRT or in addition if symptoms can't be controlled with appropriate HRT.

All you need is an oestrogen patch or some gel (not tabs if you have thyroid problem)...

I agree you need to get your thyroid symtpoms controlled and the meds right - but that doesn't mean you can't take HRT too. You may have to do some adjustment but it;ls worth the effort and you won't get hooked on ADs!

You can tell this makes me so cross on your behalf!!! 

Hurdity x

[Bluebell59]

Hurdity,
I was very annoyed when I got back from the chemist and discovered they are anti depressants.  I'm not depressed, I going through the menopause.  I took one yesterday and one this morning - am seriously thinking of not taking any more.  I'm all light headed and don't like the feeling.

[Limpy]

Bluebell - anti-depressants alter the way different receptors in the brain work.
They do not mean that whoever prescribed them thinks you are depressed.
I was prescribed them on separate occasions for MS related pain and fatigue.
My neurologist took a long time to explain that he didn't think I was depressed but that they might work.

The ones I took didn't work for me but they might have done....................

[CLKD]

Some ADs do relieve menopausal symptoms. 

[babyjane]

In my early 50s I was offered SSRIs and different types of HRT for my ailments but it all made things so much worse.  I didn't know what was wrong with me.  Having read this forum and looking into it I was probably perimenopausal but back then I didn't know such a thing existed.

Anyway I didn't do at all well on the ADs or HRT.  I remember waking up one night convinced my son was up in his bedroom plotting to come down in the night and murder us.  I sincerely believed it yet I also knew it was probably down to the drugs and chemicals as I am so very sensitive to all sorts of concoctions.

I remember one night waking up about 3 am and tearing off the patch.  By morning normal service had been resumed.  I felt I had just been fobbed off with the easiest solution to get me out of the consulting room.  I went and had a talk with my lovely lady GP and she listened and listened and listened and between us we managed what was happening to me.  There were some iffy moments I don't mind saying, but I got through and I knew I was supported by her in my choice not to use these treatments and I found a way through that works for me.  Six years on I can honestly say that things are calming down and I don't have so many symptoms and the ones I have are milder now.

The point I am making is that you do not have to take the first thing that your doctor gives you, especially if you do not think you have been heard or listened to .

[Bluebell59]

  babyjane

[peripenguin]

What are ectopic heartbeats?

Yes to palpitations and dizziness, and when I am worrying I get pins and needles in both my arms and I start thinking I am about to die.

[Bluebell59]

What are ectopic heartbeats?

Yes to palpitations and dizziness, and when I am worrying I get pins and needles in both my arms and I start thinking I am about to die.

Ectopic heartbeats is just another word for an irregular heart rate.  Not all the time, every now and again maybe once a week my heart will do a sort of 'jiggle' and beat irregularly or miss a beat, this lasts about 5/10 seconds - apparently its harmless and quite common.

[Hurdity]

Where have you gone Bluebell59? Sorry to see you felt you wanted to leave us so soon  . Maybe someone said something that upset you? Everyone means well on here but sometimes things don't come across when typed as they are meant to! Please do reconsider if you found it generally helpful and supportive on here - I do hope so.

If not I wish you all the best on your menopause journey.

Hurdity  x