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Hello,
I’m 49 and been in surgical menopause since 2022. It’s been the biggest rollercoaster and my HRT levels are okay. The biggest issue I have right now is weight loss….not because I’m can’t lose it, because I know I can when I’m strict with my diet. My issue is sugar and eating stuff that blights any chance of losing it. I need to lose about 3 and a half stone and I don’t want to be this miserable by the time I hit 50 at the end of the year 🥴
Can anyone relate and/or have advice please? Once the afternoons come, I buckle and gorge on the sweet stuff. I’m so worn out from ‘starting again’ next Monday.
I’m even open to supplements that can decrease cravings. Can anyone help please x

I also have low blood pressure, and found that magnesium helped me with irregular heartbeat in perimenopause.  I do still notice anytime I have a significant change in hormones (including changing anything about my hrt), I'm vulnerable to it returning temporarily.  If my estrogen is low or high, I also seem to get it again.  I only take a few hundred mg of magnesium, but I have a friend that takes 900 for the same problems in perimenopause, and says it has really helped her with that. 

Don't know if this is relevant to the factors involved for you, but that's my experience.

Kara

I've been debating all of this too.  I just started Slynd, a progestin only birth control, and stopped it because I was due for a bleed, but I'm on the second day of no progestin and I don't feel good.  I have started bleeding, but not much yet, just terrible cramps and deteriorating sleep.   I'm not sure I can make it the 4 days without the progestin. 

I do know many take progesterone/progestins continuously, even when they are still having periods, but I thought this might be causing breakthrough bleeding and multiple periods a month when I was doing it.  I had a normal, if shortened, cycle before hrt that deteriorated on hrt.  I know some others in perimenopause take the Slynd continuously, skipping the inactive pills, but I wonder if I will have this kind of miserable pms and bleeding all the time I had on nightly 200mg progesterone if I don't allow for a cyclical bleed. 

I wonder if it's possible to take a shorter break from progesterone and still occasion a bleed, or to take a half dose of progesterone/progestin and still have enough of a drop in hormones that it supports my natural cycle happening.   Has anyone tried this, or come up with other innovations to allow for a bleed without going through progesterone withdrawal?

Kara

I’m an absolute wreck after day 26. Usually when I have a bleed, symptoms stop but once I’ve finished the bleed, symptoms start again until after day 15. I only feel normal on utrogestan. And I’ve not had a normal bleed for months so the symptoms seem to be constant! Anxiety, palpitations, not sleeping etc etc. I’ve been taking a small dose of citalopram to keep the anxiety at bay but it doesn’t really.

Debating whether to try a few weeks with continuous utro. My nurse said it wouldn’t matter if I did even if I was still bleeding

Help… doctor changed me from
Evorel sequi patches to estraderm mx patch and provera tablets. Only been on them
A week and had a meltdown at weekend. Haven’t been like this since pre-hrt. Would the change in my prescription cause this or would it just be I’ve had a really crap day? Other patches were working away fine but apparently now I’ve been on for 18 months I don’t need the combined patch.

Interesting what you say about eating every 3 hours, I've done nothing but eat today! Constantly hungry.
Thank you so much, feeling very sorry for myself tonight, just all very frustrating. I've had a lazy day today so hoping for a better day tomorrow xx

Funnily enough I recently had it the other way round recently, I stopped my HRT for 3 days before doing some testing (as I was advised) and ended up with atrial fibrillation that went agter a few days when I started up HRT again. Another group said it would be the drop in oestrogen.

Perhaps it will settle as your body adjusts?

Anxiety and insomnia were my worst meno symptoms, both cured by hrt. IMO for anxiety that's caused by oestrogen deficiency it's better to replace the oestrogen than to use ADs.

Massive panic in a hotel shower when ‘blood’ was swirling round my feet. When l realised it was dripping from the Cherry Shower Gel dispenser, l couldn’t stop laughing. Hubby just looked confused when l tried to explain!

Put those feet up Girl and rest.  Listen to your body ;-)

What ever awful condition I've suffered over the years, it always amazes me how ill each can make me feel - when better I can't replicate the physicality of them.  Eating every 3 hours has helped over the years, 24/7.

My anxiety is worse from 3.30 a.m. until mid-evening when it's bad.