Hi everyone, I hope you can help me get through this latest blip as i'm feeling so awful, desperate and like giving up.
I am now just a couple of months past 50 and have experienced horrendous peri symptoms for approx. 4 years now on and off. After seeing a specialist earlier this year, looking at various options to try to help with the fluctuations, I settled on Estradot and Utrogestan. Estradot 50 didn't seem to help so the dose was upped to 75 then 100 to try to level things out. This seemed to be working and I thought I was getting my life back, my anxiety settled and at times I felt normal, then it has all come crashing down. the last 5-6 weeks have been awful and this last week I particular I have been off work, unable to function and barely able to get out of bed. It's the usual symptoms: sweats, crippling nausea, tremors, anxiety, tinnitus, crying, sense of hopelessness, waking in the night etc. It always seems to be worse at the beginning of the cycle getting particularly bad around the middle of the month.
When the blip started I felt as though it was down to ovulation as I had some ovary pain and had spotting one day which I often had mid cycle prior to starting HRT 2 years ago.
I have so many questions going through my head:
Is it the months that I ovulate that I feel worse as my own hormones are adding to the HRT?
Is Estradot 100 too much, too little or is it just my fluctuating hormones causing the problem?
Can anyone offer me advice to help get things stabilised?
When will things settle?
I suspect life will never be the same but just some sort of stability where I can work, plan things and enjoy my family isn't too much to expect is it?
Sorry to have a winge but I'm feeling really low and know that many of you have been and are going through the same thing so any advice would be appreciated.
Marie xx