.....Hello All,
Thank goodness I have found this site or should I say lifeline.....
I am finding it so helpful and above all so reassuring that I am not the only one who is suffering at the moment. I absolutely feel I have reached rock bottom and don't know which way to turn.
Forgive me for the long post I will try and keep it short but I would dearly love to here your advice.
Eight years ago I had a sterilisation at the age of 40. It was no particular reason other than my husband admittedly was too afraid to have the op...
within weeks I noticed that I suddenly had the urge to sleep with the windows open and feeling exceptionally hot and started getting severe palpitations. At the time I was under a lot of stress due to a difficult job but soon changed things and found a job that I loved. My symptoms are excessive weight gain approx 2 and half stone. Absolute despair and can't find the joy in anything even though I have an amazing husband, family, job and work/life balance. Severe tiredness, disrupted sleep, palpatations, periods becoming erratic and much heavier , clots etc, bad headaches, and the worst anxiety I ever had with panic attacks thrown into the mix(never suffered with these before). I just feel totally like I have lost the person I once was, and the 'light' has gone out. I don't yearn for my youth or anything like that, I just yearn to have some energy and a bit of Ooomph and to not feel so awful !!!
As the years have gone by the changes have become more evident and quite difficult to cope with. Today after 27 years with the same doctor I feel I have been forced to change surgeries as no one will do anything to help me, and I am sure they just think I am neurotic and have fobbed me off with all sorts of things. Im sick of being told I am depressed and to take anti depressants when I
know for a fact it has to be hormone related. Not one single doctor has ever mentioned peri menopausal Hrt etc... Its only now that I'm starting to piece things together.
Both My mum and her sister had breast cancer and thankfully come through the other side they were both on HRT for many years and both their cancers were hormone receptive. After speaking with the doctor to day and from the family history they are absolutely adament they will not prescribe me HRT, they will however give me anti depressants and the mini pill.
I have never ever taken any form of contraception in all my adult life as I was so in tune with my cycle that I knew to the minute when ovulation was about to happen.. It worked as I had two children and didn't want anymore, so I did something right, so I am reluctant to go down this road.
Today I have contacted the secretary of Dr Tina Peers to arrange an appointment thinking that I would rather try the Bio Identicals route only to be told she specialises in Body Identicals
...now I am completely confused as I didn't know they were two different things or are they? ....
I just feel I am walking in a minefield of conflicting information ..... Please can someone please just advise me the right road to go down.
Would bio identical be safer for me judging by my family history and if so recommendations
Thanks for listening to me ramble and Im sorry my post is all over the place (a bit like my head at the moment
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