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[Postmeno3]

Hi,
I am wondering if anyone has been directed towards other conventional medications to help with this and what it does, if so, to reduce the impact of oestrogen which, even at 25mg, over six months now, is proving too stimulatory for me and is, in fact, exacerbating overstimulation. Needing answers as I think I may have a supersensitive response to oestrogen.
Many thanks!
😊

[CLKD]

Is this sexual excitement? 

[Postmeno3]

Maladaptive Stress Response.

[CLKD]

I am glad that I'm not taking medical shorthand these days  .  Off to look that up.  OK - that needs a specific type of counselling with a registered therapist who gels well with clients.  What is your plan?

[Postmeno3]

Sorry? This is physiological!

[Kathleen]

Hello Postmeno3


I wonder if you can describe the above more fully.
For example are you referring to a mood swing where you feel elated and optimistic or a physical sensation such as  internal shaking?


As you know the menopause can present us with a whole host of symptoms and I am sure other ladies will be along to offer advice.

Take care.

K.

[Postmeno3]

Hi. It's to do with poor regulation of the nervous system, the sympathetic on overdrive and the parasympathetic not kicking in. So, it's adrenally connected, cortisol output, "arousal". Hormones, produced in the adrenal glands postmenopausally, are all in conflict, over-riding each other's potential. My systems need calming/balancing and oestrogen is stimulatory! So I'm wondering if there's something I can take to help regulate so that I'm not occasionally experiencing these extremes of reactions to situations, disproportionate to the context, as since restarting HRT (oestrogen only required) these past seven months, this has worsened. This is why I question adding more oestrogen if adding its stimulatory impact. 🤔

[Postmeno3]

Posts keep dropping off this thread, then return or go missing.
CLKD, there's a YouTube video I had posted about yesterday, since gone missing. It's by the Optimum Health Clinic describing the physiological process that is Maladaptive Stress Response. I think it's called that plus "In M.E./CFS/Fibro" or something. Sorry, not good with links. Hope that helps.

[CLKD]

Tnx.  My reply to you has disappeared: did U get to read it ?  - have reported to Emma 

[VictoryV]

Posts keep dropping off this thread, then return or go missing.
CLKD, there's a YouTube video I had posted about yesterday, since gone missing. It's by the Optimum Health Clinic describing the physiological process that is Maladaptive Stress Response. I think it's called that plus "In M.E./CFS/Fibro" or something. Sorry, not good with links. Hope that helps.

I noticed this too, thought I was having a senior moment!😁

[CLKD]

Senior moments - where's Terry Wogan when we need him 

[Postmeno3]

Yes, I got your reply and then it disappeared. Hence me virtually repeating myself (which has since disappeared, too). I think you just got caught up in the difference between anxiety and arousal. All good!

[VictoryV]

I got confused in the beginning too. We’ve got a colleague off sick long term with Maladaptive Coping Response which is different and a behaviour/anxiety/stress rather than physiological, are you thinking same as I was CLKD?

[CLKD]

Dare I answer  - yep, probably.

Although I know about the causation of anxiety surges, it never helps!

[Suzysheep]

Postmeno…. How does this present itself? Sorry, but I’ve never heard of it and would like to know more x