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NicNic80:
Morning.
Is anyone able to say that, “yes, HRT helped with my anxiety”??
I’m at my wits end. Have had depression for years (which was actually getting better last year) but in December anxiety smacked me hard in the face and is literally destroying my life.
I had many other symptoms so researched perimenopause (I’m 44 next month) and went to GP. She put me on HRT. Initially patches, which didn’t work for me (awful side effects on the synthetic progesterone) and now on gel and utrogestan.
I have a lot of stress. My job is stressful, we’re going through a house sale and moving to a new town and I have massive mum guilt as my daughter is an only child and she is upset about moving and leaving friends. I feel absolutely terrible for her (even though I know she’ll make new friends).
She can also see I’m not right and I worry I’ll create an anxious child.
I feel like an absolute failure.
I’m off work at the moment and I wake up at 4am every day with a massive tight chest and the constant worrying starts.
What do I do?!! Will HRT help?
I’ve been on it for a month now.
But I don’t know if I can wait another 3, 4, 5 months for it to actually work.
I’ve seriously had enough now  :'(

Witches Cat:
Hello everyone, I haven't posted on M/M for a long time, i've been "getting by" and have recently retired, hubby is still fighting that, but being self employed he can carry on. When I get stressed out I use this when I go to bed.

I know damn near everything in the bedroom on shelves, in boxes, cupboards etc etc. So  my self help goes like this....

Think of something in the room beginning with "A"  Apple paperweight for example.. the "B"  bed is easy, then "C" comb perhaps, and so on right through the alphabet. If I get to the end I start again, there are always a few letters I cannot find something for.

Recently because of family matters I have been getting very stressed and anxiety has hit big time, tight chest, shakes, loss of appetite, complete panic,  this does help when i get to bed,   Hope it might help someone else too.

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