So, 5 years perimenopausal, and on HRT for 4 years, started after I went overnight from a calm collected good sleeper to a total insomniac, waking up terrified every 2 hours.
The HRT kept a lid on things until 12 months ago when I went on a roller coaster of non-stop weird symptoms out of nowhere:
achy, burning hands, strange toe thing that's now gone, burning sensation on forearms, itchy skin on a new level of itch, outbreak of skin tags, daily nosebleeds that stopped as mysteriously as they started, random ear infections, really painful feet (struggling to walk at one point), painful elbows, and chronic anxiety that settles into health anxiety.
The issues seem to rotate around the body, one stops and another body part kicks off.
GPs have no answers other than "it's tough getting older".
I know enough now to suspect that so much of this is hormonal.
My question to all is....does this ever end?