Hi Robin Rose
sorry you've been having a hard time, one line that you wrote, about it being hard to keep pretending everything's ok, I felt that. I think menopause in the middle of a pandemic is a recipe for disaster, there are so many other stressors going on as well as menopause.
Glad the medication is helping and that things have improved a bit at work. The only thing I thought to add is whether to try Evorel Sequi over Evorel Conti. I was on a very low dose to start with of this. You do have a cycle with it, but it stopped my heavy periods and there is just this light, insignificant period regular as clockwork each month (or there was until i messed up my regime, I'm hoping to go back to it though). The progesterone is norehisterone and you only get it on the second half of the month. I did well on that, strangely, in fact I used to look forward to that phase as I got loads of energy. I changed my regime because I wanted a body identical progesterone long term, but I had a terrible reaction to it, so now I'm planning on trying to go back to my Evorel Sequi regime as the norehisterone, while not being body identical, did nothing but good.
Anyway, my main point was just that while evorel sequi gives a cycle, it does, in my experience and from what the doctor told me, lighten your period and make it regular. I can honestly say there is little inconvenience with it in my case.
Hope things continue to improve for you
