Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[CLKD]

Could you give your body a rest for 4 weeks?  Let it 'clear' itself?  What does your care giver at C&W suggest?   

[Nas]

Yes, I’m going to have a rest now, I don’t think my body likes Hrt. I’m seeing the private specialist in three weeks so by then I will know what symptoms I’m dealing with menopause wise.

[CLKD]

Make a list of your symptoms to take along.

[Mary G]

It's all a long time ago for me now but my main symptoms were sweating buckets, silent migraines and bladder/vaginal irritation.   I was early 40s when the whole thing kicked off.

The only thing that got rid of the wretched sweating was large amounts of Oestrogel which also deal with the vaginal/bladder irritation.   The sweating was extremely debilitating and caused a lot of distress and embarrassment.

The migraines have been more complicated to deal with but basically I need as much hormone stability as possible.

I'm now very post menopause and I can be symptom free on a very low dose of oestrogen which is a relief.

It's an evolving situation I suppose and you may need to adjust the dose as necessary but I'm now 60 and so it's just a case of sustaining a low maintenance dose.

[mandypepe]

I suggest 'quality of Life' to give to GPs who won't consider a) it isn't menopause, 'you are too young'; b) to tell GPs that we expect at any age to be able to enjoy Life!  Also GPs are that: they are not able to know everything that is available !

I’m a few months into HRT and you’ve summed it up for me ‘quality of life’.  That says it all. I’ve ignored lots of symptoms over the 8 years leading up to missing my first period, and even then a year and half into not having periods as I’d got used to the symptoms and accepted them as the norm for me but what made me go to GP for HRT was the extreme evening and night flushes and intense full leg cramps and hip and knee joint pain making me unable to walk and sit and get up from sitting. It stopped my hot flushes from the very first day of my first patch, leg cramps and joints vastly improved but it sorted so many other things I’d got used to such as insomnia, painful dry vagina, incontinence, jittery inside and I now have a sense of being grounded and on a level and  I feel so content with life and every day have an energy and more positive outlook and even giddiness and excitement sometimes where as before it was more of ‘what’s the point’ and I had to work hard at not feeling down and unmotivated. This I never expected to change by going on HRT. So, yes, quality of life is the absolute reason. 

[sheila99]

  That's great. Lovely to hear a good news story.