Hi ladies I’m after your expert advice please. Im 44 and started on hrt gel around 5 weeks ago for perimenopause. I had horrendous anxiety, internal waves of hot flushes, palpitations, nausea, sleep difficulties and some night sweats as well as being tearful and having mood changes.
The initial gp I saw prescribed setraline while I decided about hrt but I didn’t take this. I then saw a hrt gp and they prescribed oestrogel. Initially I struggled to tolerate 2 pumps due to awful side effects, feeling shaky, spaced out, unable to sleep and increase in anxiety and palpitations. After 3 weeks I was able to increase to 2 pumps and side effects have pretty much gone. Her have reduced my palpitations and some anxiety but I’m still feeling pretty anxious, some of which is due to constant catarrh in my throat since Covid 9 months ago, which is also making me not want to eat much. Although I’ve only been on hrt for 5 weeks I’m now seriously thinking of taking the setraline alongside for a few months to try and combat my anxiety, until my hrt has fully kicked in. Has anyone else started taking setraline so soon after starting hrt?? My hrt go is not available for a couple of weeks and I don’t want to prolong feeling this way. I spoke to another go last week who put me off by saying I won’t know which is working if I take both and could feel worse. Would be good to hear you advice please
