Hello everyone
First post here after lurking for a few days!
I'm 47 and have just been prescribed HRT (Novofem). I "think" I've been in peri for the last 3 or so years..well it seems that way anyway. That's what has been my stock answer for every passing ailment and sensation. Now reading some of your posts I'm pretty sure of it. Nausea in the mornings, dizziness, general feeling of bleugh, lack of mojo for me.
My main reasons for approaching the GP this time was a series of headaches which I believed to be hormone related. It's not the first time they have happened, probably been going on for a year or more on and off. I had an accompanying period pain but no bleeding, periods have been less and less regular for the last couple of years, some being a couple of months apart, then a gap, then 2 or 3 with only a week apart etc. I am not getting hot flushes though, and feel a bit of a fraud!!
I am very slight and with a low BMI I have been having bone density scans regularly since my 20s, so when I saw GP Friday he suggested starting HRT and here we are. Full blood panel done and new scan ordered too to see exactly where we are at. I always thought I would go natural through the menopause as my mum took HRT for 10 years max (which were the guidelines when she did take it). No symptoms before other than excessively heavy bleeding and then when she stopped.......BAM hot flush city.
So I'm 2 days into tablets, feel ok but keep thinking should I be doing this, am I going to get the same thing as mum yada yada. My nan had BC in her 60s, survived, but it wasn't even asked at my doc appt.
Is overthinking a hormonal symptom............
