Hello all
What a great site, I am so glad I found it because I don't have any perimenopausal friends!
I am 38 and marries with 2 children (family complete) so I am aware my situation could be a lot harder.
I am newly confirmed following 2 lots of blood tests and I started on Elleste duet 1mg 4 days ago.
By a long way my most difficult symptom at the moment is joint aches and back pain/stiffness. Is anyone able to tell me if their HRT helped with this? I suddenly feel extremely old.
Another question I had was just to ask if anybody knows if drinking alcohol can make the aches worse? I ask this because after a rare drinks night out on saturday I was considerably worse on sunday (unable to tie my own laces) yet today it is not great but a lot lot less severe. Just wondered if there was any merit in my theory?
Thanks in advance for any advice anyone is able to give me