Hi All,
I wonder if there is anyone out there apart from myself who has uterus didelphys and is also at our wobbly hormone stage?
It would be really good to swap notes, although I know UD can take various forms eg I also have 1 giant kidney as a result. NB I have 1 vagina, 2 cervixes, 2 wombs. womb 2 is smaller/subsidiary so smears were done at hospital usually by consultant.
I am 51, 29 months post-menopausal and on estradot 25 and utrogestan 100 (24 days from 28, now trying it vaginally). Menopause was fairly uneventful, though as my last period was just before lockdown 1 my attention was elsewhere
6 months post meno I put on a stone & a half which I am trying to get rid of but it's slow going. Previously I could eat like a horse and stay the same weight so that was a shocker
12 years ago I began to have various issues which I assumed were stress-related cos of work which burnt me (and others!) out. Now I wonder if peri didn't play a big role. There was v little peri awareness then and I 'just got on with it' rather than seeing GP. Brain fog, memory issues, failure to cope with things I breezed through previously, extreme fatigue to the point of needing an afternoon nap and falling asleep sitting up. I reduced working hours and changed jobs several times but was still exhausted. I always put it down to the fallout from stress though and 'did less' to try and ease things. Now from reading around fibro I know that is not the best thing to do, necessarily.
GP suggests memory issues could be due to fluoxetene 20mg as I started it around that time, but I want to get hrt sorted before I stop fluo. I have a recent fibromyalgia diagnosis, so started hrt hoping to ease muscle pain but now my brain is bit less foggy (Bonus!) I see the similarities between fibro and peri/meno.
Hope to hear from another twinkly unicorn of the womb soon!
Chucklesista x
Emma - I've posted in Meno rather than Post meno as more folk will prob see my post, hope this is OK.
