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[Karen max]

Hi
My diet is good , I'm careful what I eat and I try to get as much excerise as I can , I suffer fibromyalgia and arthritis so at times I can't get much excerise fir few days but definitely I watch my diet .

GP told he to avoid magnesium as I'm also on high blood pressure meds ( tho I honestly can't find a link to using using causing any probs ) but he's the GP so he knows best ( he thinks do anyway )
I'm just getting pissed of now as it's been going on yrs and I seem to be getting no where , when I started the gel back in April it did help my mood but lately my mood is flat and motivation is really bad ..

I'm post menopause coming 6 yrs in Dec and I'm 52 yrs old I feel like 90 most days

Guess that's the joys of thus awful menopause

Kaz xx

[Foxylady]

Why not citrate Birdy? I'd read that it was the better option before I started taking magnesium supplements.

[Foxylady]

I had seen if you were taking too much it gives you laxative effect, I've never had that taking 300mg at night for the last 4 months. I will look into it again though if it is inferior to the rest.

[Foxylady]

Thanks Birdy, I think it was in relation to the bioavailability and helping with reflux primarily that I decided at the time to go with it.

Citrate might sound familiar too—consider it an erudite way of saying that it's derived from citric acid (in this case, magnesium salt is obtained from the citrus acid). With excellent bioavailability—that is, the efficacy with which a substance is absorbed and used by the body—it's no wonder magnesium citrate  one of the most highly recommended magnesium supplements by health professionals. Often used to naturally support digestion—specifically, to alleviate constipation and acid indigestion—it's also, bonus points, easy on the wallet. However, it may lead to dehydration (and the imbalance of minerals that arrives with this), in that it pulls water into the intestines.

[Karen max]

I will call into local chemist /health shop and see what they can recommend for me as I said I'm on few different meds so I do need to be careful what else I add to the mix ..

Thank you all for your support you lovely ladies 🌺

Kaz xx

[CLKD]

I swallowed over the counter magnesium in high dosage to ease a persistent cough.  Works on relaxing the reflex muscle - however, it worked on the bowel too 

[Foxylady]

maybe I should have upped the dose yest when I was constipated!!

[CLKD]

... as long as you are near a loo with a very good book 

[Karen max]

Birdy
Thanks for asking , I'm nit to bad as I'm over the provera thankfully so don't need it again until Sep which I see my GP on 4th Sep so hopefully when I see her face to face she can change the provera instead of stopping the whole bloody thing like they done over the phone 😡 If not il just stick it out and pray my surgery isnt much longer

How are you birdy ?

Kaz xx

[squeaker99]

Hi Karen

Just to sympathise and say just hold on there. My anxiety has been up and down with no patters since Peri 4 years ago started regardless of that regime I have tried for how long (HRT patches, tablets , vits  - been there done that). I have months of feeling much better and weeks of feeling awful anxiety wise then end up at the GP in tears (see 8 GPs plus Meno clinic). Nothing has ' stabilised' my anxiety ( I have never been on ADs). I know it is hormonal or adrenaline/cortisol  related and that I ' hype it up' myself when it kicks in if I ' let it'.  It really is the pits. GPs have no answer, we all seem to get good and very bad times. Eating well, exercise, stress reduction all help but when it ramps up ( for me pre-menstrual) it seems to override everything else.  I read, walk or watch a film and try and wait for it to pass.

[Karen max]

Hi squeaker
Such an awful bloody thing this menopause isn't it !!!
I've days where I feel almost normal then next day I could be in floods of tears with out a reason ( tho the estrogel has helped that ) I can cope with most things but my anxiety is just awful when it hits me , guess we just have to enjoy our good days abd ride the waves on the bad days ...

Chatting on here and knowing your not alone really does help

Thank you for your kinds words abd hopefully anxiety will give you a break

Kaz 😘 x

[squeaker99]

hi Karen. Hope you are feeling better - these things seem to come and go, peak and trough.

I felt like the pits a few weeks ago - sleep and anxiety terrible but am doing daily 'positive affirmations' and
some reduce stress 5 minute meditations. They seem to have helped. I just train and surround myself with
positive noise (radio), thoughts. I really am not pushing it but the sleep or stress Paul McKenna book/cd has been good.
Very simple and all about just committing and practising being positive. (Having said that I will probably be back to the blues in 3 weeks again and posting here at 3am!).

I tell myslef my negative voice and thoughts are not in my head but a little annoying voice aside from me which I now tell to 'shut up' and then distract my self - put David Bowie on loudly!

It isn't easy. I really think there is an element of fighting the anxiety part of this.  Huge to you.

[racjen]

I find this all really puzzling - started out on utrogestan & it immediately sparked off terrible morning anxiety. Stopping it made no difference , anxiety has remained ever since. Utrogestan was also making me terribly depressed & awful withdrawal, so I changed to provera. Anxiety remains as bad as ever, but i get on much better with it in every other way.

[Ladybt28]

Well racjen, provera being better for you than Utrogestan, apart from the anxiety is a good thing but you really have had to go through the mill to find that out.  Everything is so difficult but at least now you can get someone to help you to focus on fixing the anxiety which you now know isn't linked to progesterone - mind you that's another uphill struggle, easier said than done - but yet on the other hand you can stop worrying your anxiety is the progesterone part of hrt.  Hope you are feeling a bit better in yourself xx 

Oh my giddy aunt - why did god design women this way - he was clearly having an off day!!!   

[Anjia]

I have an estrogen patch and don't  need progesterone after a hysterectomy.I suffer with chronic anxiety some days and I no this is worse with fluctuating hormones. Now and then I cut a bit of the patch 50mcg to see how I feel as to be honest I'm fed up side affects even after six years.To much estrogen for me makes me a nervous wreak , jump at every loud noise, nausea adrenalin pumping around its terrible what I did the last few weeks was cut a small bit of patch to see how I feel again ! I found that the anxiety wasent so bad but the flushes and insomnia came back so last week put a full patch on now anxiety through the roof just can't win I'm afraid.