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[Nas]

So glad you feel better Dorothy Gale, particularly as I remember how you were suffering so much last year.

I wish I had the courage to take an anti depressant, but just can’t bring myself to take another tablet to try and contain this shit show.

Ive got an oncology appointment next week, so will see how I feel then.

I wish you well going forward. X

[Penguin]

So glad you feel better Dorothy Gale, particularly as I remember how you were suffering so much last year.

I wish I had the courage to take an anti depressant, but just can’t bring myself to take another tablet to try and contain this shit show.

Ive got an oncology appointment next week, so will see how I feel then.

I wish you well going forward. X

Hello lovely Nas
Haven't heard from you in awhile, I've been staying off here a bit to manage my own anxiety as health stuff makes me worse. However I do want to say that I did end up quitting hrt back in April ish time, seeing a psychiatrist and on fluoxetine 40mg. No hrt whatsoever, can tell my estrogen levels are low as sore finger joints etc, but my mood is SO much better now I've got the right dose. Totally get why you wouldn't want to add yet another drug into the mix, but it has been transformative for me, to the point that other people have noticed and commented on how more relaxed and easygoing I seem.

[Dorothy Gale]

Thanks Nas

I completely get why you feel you just cannot face taking another tablet. I felt like that too hence why I went through 6 months of being suicidal every single day.....yet refused meds.

I thought I could do it on my own.......but also I'm so sensitive to meds and had such awful reaction in the past...and couldn't face the initial side effects of an AD and feeling even more anxious and ill that I was warned could happen as often you feel worse before it gets better with AD......I just couldn't face it.......I was terrified of being more ill from them....

However........after 6 months of being suicidal and what that was doing to me....but not just me.....to my partner and my family who had been put through hell seeing me like this......I had no choice anymore.

It was literally do or die.

With lots of support and help.....I started the AD. I was terrified for the first 2 weeks and I almost gave up........but the fact that I had no choice anymore made me continue and like Penguin said, I'm now a different woman. My family cannot believe the difference and I get comments all the time.

That one tablet I refused for soooooo long........has changed my life.

Like Penguin said too, I definitely feel the lack of estrogen in my body...I hurt everywhere and feel 100 years old lol......but I will take that over feeling suicidal every day.

My choice currently is no HRT. This decision may change. I'm 50. But coping. For me the way perimenopause affected me mentally was what I decided to sort with AD first. I'm now in menopause and things do seem to have settled since perimenopause.....

But I just wanted to say I understand you not feeling able to take another tablet......but for me....and many others......it was the missing link.

By the way....YOU ARE BRAVE! to be facing every day...keeping going despite your suffering....you are brave for even showing up for that....never underestimate how strong you are and have been to cope with all you have. You're amazing and you will find a way. We are here.

Huge huge love.

[CLKD]

Well done girls.   Group