Not so long ago I accepted that nothing can help me to get out of my post meno hell caused by low estrogen and progesterone symptoms. My hot flashes and night sweats stopped themselves very unexpectedly, I just woke up one morning and realised that I slept deeply all night and didn’t have any single hot flash. I thought my meno hell was over, my last blood test came with very low estrogen and progesterone, probably my body somehow managed to balance them and hot flashes with night sweats stopped. But strangely I started wake up in the morning feeling very tired and with severe nausea, which lasted all day. After a couple of weeks permanent torture to my body with severe fatigue and non stop nausea I had to except that my body would not be able to function anymore and because no NHS treatment is available for me due to my “estrogen poisoning symptoms”, it means I am disabled person now. I had to make a very hard decision to give up my job, stay at home and meditate in the garden if the weather is good, if not just stay on the sofa for whole day like a plant in the pot. I felt very ill and my mood went down, I was scared of that. My GP gave my 6 weeks off work sick notice and I started my resignation.
At work I was offered further adjustment if I wanted to stay at work, but I couldn’t function like a human, I was “a plant in the pot”. So I refused.
Eventually I found how to keep my symptoms away, I am back to my normal life now, I stopped my resignation at work and was back to work much earlier than 6 weeks.
Sometimes we need to except things as they are, but we need to remember that in the future everything can be changed.
CrispyChick don’t lose your hope. Your very unique and individual treatment is somewhere near you, you just need to find it.