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[Baby]

My life is a total misery and my family's too. On gel and utro for 4 months, my body is just full of panic all the time I am a nervous wreck. Palpitations ongoing with no relief with propranolol.  Insomnia which is getting worse. Even with sleeping tablets not good. My body is in a total mess and my brain just doesn't seem to be working. Have been to docs several times over the months and they think it's a mental problem. They could be right so I feel no hope for the future. Its sounds strange but it's like my endorphins have been sucked out of my body. I forced myself to do a workout the other day and felt nothing when I finished. When I go to bed even if I am calm it's like there's something in me missing to fall asleep. I dont now if I am having a nervous breakdown. I am post menopausal 52. I spoke to newson health last week and they reassured me and advised increasing gel. It's like my mind keeps saying to me you cant carry on. Just feel totally wired all the time

[CLKD]

Easy for GPs to dismiss us all with 'mental' problems but that so Victorian!

Have you been offered an anti-anxiety treatment?   I found taking a beta-blocka daily helped enormously and I have an emergency pill to take when it over-whelms me. 

Sometimes ladies require HRT alongside anti-anxiety and/or anti-depressant medication to improve over-all health balance.  Despite what some on here might think!  But I go with experience of mental health issues since 1989.

Cortisol can wake the body with a jolt in the early hours.  Adrenaline for me feels like hot water coursing through my veins  .  Appropriate medication has helped, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here.

Maybe keep a diary and review after 3 weeks, you have something to take to your Practice Nurse or GP to discuss.  If necessary take someone with you?

[Bobidy]

Try not to worry. Your estrogel probably needs increasing. I used to have terrible adrenal rushes every night which kept me awake, which then made me feel dire the next day and any pain is heightened.

I had to increase from 2 to 6-8 pumps in 12 months and now (touch wood) it's all under control.

As your ovaries conk out your adrenaline glands will try to compensate by using the oestrogen stored there which can cause these awful rush feelings. There are lots of other causes of cause too.

The only way to check is to try increasing the gel and see if it makes a difference.

I can't comment on the progesterone side of things as I don't need it x

[sheila99]

Ate you on a sequi or conti regime? Might be worth trying sequi to see if you're better when not on utro. How much gel? My anxiety and insomnia took 3 months to go, it seems to something that needs a build up of oestrogen. If you're oestrogen dose is too low no doubt it will take longer.

[CherrySG]

Ate you on a sequi or conti regime? Might be worth trying sequi to see if you're better when not on utro. How much gel? My anxiety and insomnia took 3 months to go, it seems to something that needs a build up of oestrogen. If you're oestrogen dose is too low no doubt it will take longer.

I was wondering if it was the utrogestan. Plenty of us need a different progesterone. Bl**dy doctors telling you it's a 'mental problem'