Hello all, thanks for adding me. I'm happy to say I've just started HRT after struggling for many many years. I'm age 56 and started having hot flushes, low mood, aches and pains, and I think the whole list of possible symptoms from my early to mid forties.
Naively I didn't know much at all about menopausal symptoms apart from the joked about hot flushes as it wasn't really discussed when I was growing up. I thought it was something that was slightly inconvenient and brief and it would literally last months or a couple of years and then you came out the other side back to normal so to speak, how wrong was I?
I now realise that it's a very individual experience and some breeze through whilst others have many difficulties and a terrible time.
I've been an infrequent visitor to my GP but on the odd occasion I visited I asked for referrals for joint pain as this was getting me down the most. I have thought that I'd got fibromyalgia, rheumatism, arthritis, been to chiropractic, massage therapists, and osteopaths. I've tried changing diet, cutting out sugar, caffeine, limiting carbs etc and it's over time got worse and worse.
Previously I had plantar fasciitis, a foot neuroma, greater trochanteric pain syndrome, and generally ached from head to toe. I've tried supplements for joints like glucosamine sulphate and more recently CBD oil. I've been offered pain killers on repeat prescription but always declined knowing in my heart of hearts that this wasn't the answer I was looking for.
I always thought that HRT wasn't an option for me due to the risk of breast cancer ( I hadn't really looked into it because of this) my mother had this in her 60's so I thought it wasn't available to me.
Only recently I learned the aches and pains could be connected to menopause and I started reading more. I weighed it up and saw my GP last week.
She told me the options and we agreed on a treatment which I started 4 days ago. Almost immediately I feel different. I was told 2 to 3 weeks and up to 3 months to notice a difference.
I feel stronger physically and emotionally, my skin looks much more radiant and less dry, my sleep has been more like it used to be and I feel generally more optimistic. I am still a little achey but nothing like before where I felt so slow, now I'm more sprightly and have more ease when moving.
Am I going mad, could it be the HRT so soon, I can't actually believe I feel so different so quickly. Sorry for such a long post but I'm flabbergasted. I felt 80 but now feel 40.
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