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[discogirl]

Hi,

I'm 4 years post meno and had really no symptoms of menopause, I had night sweats etc but that didn't affect my sleep at all.

In february of this year I developed tinnitus, insomnia and anxiety which I believe was menopause symptoms.

I lost quite a bit of weight in 2020, and when ladies no longer have estrogen, fat cells are used to give us estrone which is a type of estrogen I believe. I'm wondering if I was surviving on estrone and when I lost the weight and thus the estrone this is when my problems started.

Any thoughts would be gratefully received x

[Kathleen]

Hello discogirl.

I think a similar question has appeared before so it may be worth doing a search on the subject.

 It's tempting to think that putting on weight will provide us with more of our hormones but I don't think the science supports this. The Zoe App people recently reported that slimmer women have fewer Meno symptoms ( 60% compared to 70% of fatter women) so both groups still symptomatic.

Louise Newson has said that we make a weaker form of Oestrogen in our post meno years and that is why we need HRT. Perhaps for some women the weaker form is usually good enough? In fact I wonder if the HRT version is too strong and that also causes problems?

Take care ladies.

K.

[discogirl]

Hello discogirl.

I think a similar question has appeared before so it may be worth doing a search on the subject.

 It's tempting to think that putting on weight will provide us with more of our hormones but I don't think the science supports this. The Zoe App people recently reported that slimmer women have fewer Meno symptoms ( 60% compared to 70% of fatter women) so both groups still symptomatic.

Louise Newson has said that we make a weaker form of Oestrogen in our post meno years and that is why we need HRT. Perhaps for some women the weaker form is usually good enough? In fact I wonder if the HRT version is too strong and that also causes problems?

Take care ladies.

K.

Hi kathleen,

Yes that's very, very interesting point. Thank you x

[discogirl]

For anyone interested, I just found this on breastcancer.org medical page regarding weight loss and drop in hormone levels:

"A study supports the link between excess weight and higher hormone levels. The study found that estrogen and testosterone levels dropped quite a bit when overweight and obese women lost weight."

Seems to support the theory that when overweight women lose weight that impacts their estrogen and testosterone levels.

Quite interesting x