Hello and thank you all for your incredible kindness. I'm waiting for my IHTT visit this morning, they came out to see me at 7pm last night and will come again this evening.
I have already discussed the Tibolone with the Psychiatrist I saw (who is now liaising with my own Psychiatrist) and I told her that I'm finding the ups and downs and increasing lack of sleep since I've been on Tibolone very hard to manage as it seems to be adding to my problems arising from my CPTSD. I find that you never have the same day twice on the Tibolone, and that is rather too unnerving for me. I realise my situation is very different to most of the other Tibolone ladies here though.
I also notice that I'm very dry and itchy down below now, which is actually worse now than it has ever been but could be due to the drop in estrogen as the Tibolone is fairly weak in its actions.
Feeling dizzy and spaced out from about 10.30 to midday, which isn't too bad as at least I'm calm. The unnerving part for me is when the drug seems to peak around 2.30 - 3.00pm (I can set my watch by it) and then I feel most strange as if I'm going to have a panic attack. I get another incident of this right on cue about 8.30 pm. With sleep, I drop off ok about 12.30pm but am now awake at 4.00 am and feel absolutely horrible with doom and anxiety but this lifts after about 9.00 am (that morning cortisol thing) and then I take the tablet at 9.30 am and the whole process repeats again.
I'm finding this exhausting and pretty debilitating so I'm not sure what's going to happen but I have doubts that this will settle for me and the lack of sleep is 'triggering' a lot of my CPTSD flashbacks now which is pretty horrific. As I said before, I'll probably now post in private lives if and when I can but I just wanted to say thank you and let you know how things have been with the Tibolone for me (but as I say, my situation is rather unique). Hugs to you all. xxxxx