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[Kml]

Hi Ladies,

I’m hoping for some advice that will hopefully put my mind at rest…. Been lurking on this site for what seems like forever in the hope of finding a way to manage my symptoms.

So I’m 43 and have been experiencing peri symptoms for almost a couple of years now.  I’ve always struggled horrendously with pms especially during the week leading up to a period,  however my awful mood swings have got progressively worse and more constant.  This, along with a whole host of other factors (sporadic periods, change in bleed, brain just not working, low sex drive, lack of sleep, hot/cold flashes) has had me going back and forth to my gp over the past year.  Couple of hormone tests came back borderline?

Anyway, I’m at the point where I’ve finally decided to try hrt and my doctor has prescribed femoston 1/10 (due to me still having sporadic bleeds sometimes).  I’m now absolutely terrified to take it!!

What if it makes things worse? I can’t afford to take time off work - but what if my symptoms become unmanageable? I feel like my poor family are already sick of me being all over the place as it is and my husband thinks I have no interest in him as it is - without this tablet making me want sex even less (if this is even possible)

Have any of you lovely ladies experienced good results with this drug? I do understand that managing things takes time and is trial and error….. maybe I’m just over thinking everything  !

Any advice/reassurance would be very much appreciated xx

[Booroo]

Hi
I personally am not using that but wanted to say I was like you this time last year I was an absolute wreck! Took me til New Year’s Day to actually start taking hrt that was in drawer mind but it’s helped me no end it does take a long time and will still get blips I’m having one now but this site is great otherwise we would be on phone to doctor every time.
Hope someone else taking that can offer u advice but really have nothing to lose ,give it 3m which seems like 3 years trust me! But by then u will know how u feel by then and whether it needs tweaking x

[Flossieteacake]

Hello kml and welcome to the forum. From what I have read, hormonal blood tests are not always reliable. Your symptoms describe peri to me. I feel you have nothing to loose by trying the HRT. You already feel dreadful from what you have written. Perhaps this will help you? It can take time to find a HRT that suits us but in my opinion, it is well worth trying.

Your husband may find this thread helpful. It will give him more of an idea of what you are going through.
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2458.0.html

I say, go for it. If you do not like it then you can always stop it.