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[Macca65]

Hi everyone,
I've been going cold turkey from HRT now for 4 weeks .
Managing quite well apart from having the memory of a gold fish!😳 all my previous symptoms seem to be a lot less severe and manageable 👍🏼
Think now I've gone through the menopause and out the other side?
Will my brain ever come back?
I need to work still and feel disabled because of my lack of calculating ability.
Please advise?

[jaycee]

Was there a reason you stopped HRT, ? if no medical reason, why not try it again, see if it makes as much difference as you think it did
All i can suggest really

[Ladybt28]

I had such bad memory loss before balancing hormones that my family thought I was getting dementia! but it all sorted itself out, especially when I got onto testosterone as part of the hrt regime.

Some women "go through meno and come out the other side" - some of us never actually "come out the other side" Macca65.

I would be with jaycee - why did you give up hrt?  You may find that the memory thing is the one symptom which remains and is unmanageable although my view is that the symptoms never really subside they just get down to a level we can live with them because we are never going to be like we were before meno.

[CLKD]

How bad is it?   I've had intermittent 'loss' for years depending on how tired I have been.  It doesn't bother me per se, but I get irritated when I put things down and can't trace back!!

[squeaker99]

If you get anxious about it, it will get 10 times worse.
I went through a period of about 3 months a few years back when I was really worried about my memory.
Went to GP and they asked me to recount all the times I had had ' memory loss' moments which
I was really worried about.
She then laughed and said - there you go, you're fine.

For me it has been just one of the unpleasant parts of the Peri journey. Two years on don't even think about it now.
I'm sure anxiety played a large part. I felt foggy at the time too.

I've never been on HRT.

[Taz2]

Just to say that 4 weeks is still quite early to know whether your symptoms will return. It takes three months for all of my symptoms to resurface. Memory was one of the first things to be affected though.

Taz x   

[CLKD]

Earlier this evening, in a small group of people, I spoke briefly to a bloke - within moments I couldn't remember what he was wearing ...........  .  I intended to continue and add to the topic of conversation .......... my brain feels like blancmange - well, certainly blank