I posted a few weeks ago as was in a dilemma about whether to start HRT or not as was suffering with lots of perimenopausal symptoms. I had some helpful replies so thank you to everyone who took the time to read my post. Anyway I thought I'd update you to what's been happening since.
I started the Elleste Duo 1 mg HRT. 16 days on the white tablets and I started to feel like me again! The tiredness was still there, but no way near as bad. I stopped crying over nothing and my anxiety improved. I could walk through crowds without panicking and I was productive at work and had my hair cut and wore some make up, whereas before even brushing my hair felt exhausting and what's the point! I actually started to feel happy again. The only negative was an itchy scalp from time to time and itchy legs.
Then I started the green tablets. I had read that they don't agree with some ladies so I was prepared for that. But 7 days on them and apart from the tiredness getting worse with low energy levels, I still felt good. But then over the weekend I started to feel low again and tearful and exhausted. Even my dad who never notices anything commented that I looked awful. Thanks dad! Anyway this morning instead of going to work I ended up sat in the doctors waiting room in tears and doubled over in pain with the worst stomach cramps I've ever had. I saw a lovely lady GP whose first words to me were, " You look terrible"! She didn't think it was the green tablets causing my symptoms but said to stop them for a few days and go back and see her on Wednesday. She thought I might have an infection in my tummy so has prescribed antibiotics and tramadol for the pain oh and mefenamic acid too. ( I rattle if you shake me :-) ). But now I'm led in bed, still in pain and feeling awful. I'm upset because I felt so good on the white tablets and thought I was finally getting my life back to how I used to feel. Now I feel like where do I go from here. Before the HRT I was off work for several days with extreme tiredness and awful period pain etc. So because I felt good on the white tablets I thought things would settle down, yet now I'm off work again today because I'm in so much pain and the GP said I wasn't well enough to go in. So that's stressing me which isn't helping as I can't keep going off sick every month and I don't want to lose my job.
Has anyone experienced anything similar on the green tablets? I've still not had a bleed either. The pain actually feels like contractions. I did have an ablation a few years ago and then I got told after a scan that I had pockets of blood building up in my uterus and could have a hysterectomy but the thought of that frightened me so I just coped for a while on pain killers each month and things did improve until the perimenopause symptoms started. So I'm also worrying now as to whether the 16 days on the white tablets has triggered something. I did mention this to my GP but I'm still unclear. Thanks for listening.
