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[Nas]

Thanks Minnie Mouse, I’ve just bought a pack of those gummies; hopefully they will dial the anxiety down a bit! 🤞

[Lavender Girl]

My doc has prescribed me buspirone but as an as and when pill to take up to 3 times a day if I have one of the severe days when the anxiety won't leave me.
I've not got them yet, is it worth considering something like that? or is your anxiety constant?
Mine atm is constant but varies in degrees of strength.

I think I'm going to go back onto sertraline. I have been on and off it for many years and it does seem to work for me, but then I have years of feeling fine and think I don't need it... I have been off it for almost 1 year now, but I think it was a bad timing to come off it because my peri- symptoms have gone through the roof - unless they are linked to not taking sertraline and nothing to do with menopause.
Who knows at this point? Do I stop HRT and give sertraline a try by itself, or do I continue with HRT alone and hope it helps me mentally. I've just ordered some rescue remedy, should be here tomorrow. I do have CBD oil in actually, so I might give that a go too.
Do many people take AD's and HRT? Should I just do this?

[CLKD]

'as necessary' really helped me, I used valium like that for years.

[Minnie Mouse]

Good luck all...
The other thing that helps (really basic this one) is regularly going for a brief walk in daylight.
I used to be able to hunch at a computer for hours, but now my body says....move

[K45]

Absolutely agree with this- especially now we're getting closer to winter. Going for a walk with the dog in daylight always helps so much. I read somewhere that it's he most underrated under utilised antidepressant.

[CLKD]

Getting outside is important regardless. 

[Lavender Girl]

I'm working outside landscaping at the moment 3 days a week and make sure I get out for a walk when I can if I'm not working.  It's always been a big thing for me, however time on my own at the moment is damaging, so I'm trying to find a balance and do some positive thinking and living in the present.
Sometimes I just accept that I'm going to feel this anxiety until the HRT settles, and until the heartbreak wanes a little... and that's better than me panicking when I feel it overtaking my body and mind.

And just holding on to the fact that everything passes... eventually.
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