Hi , Im new here too. Been lurking a month or so and finally registered. I've been finding lots of good info and advice and now want to join you all.
Im 48, and for the last 6-12 months have been feeling absolutely exhausted, irritable, low mood, fuzzy head, difficulty concentrating, poor sleep, low confidence, mild anxiety and no vava voom. I think I started having a few hot flushes too, but these have got worse in the last 3 months and i now have reg night sweats, joy. Periods are a bit closer together, with occasional longer gaps. In the last three months I actually started thinking i was clinically depressed and was almost going to go and see GP about this and them I had a light bulb moment and suddenly thought about the menopause..... So I read up and went to see GP who did blood tests to rule out Thyroid and aneamia and didnt show much else. I decided I wanted to start HRT as I don't like feeling like this.....so I read up again and went to see GP and asked for Oestrogel and Utrogestan ( they were happy to prescribe but had never hear of this!) and here I am.
I know im only on my first month and It needs to settle down and when I was just taking the oestrogel 2 pumps daily I was feeling much better, clear headed, sleeping well, positive and cheerful. I am now 8 days into the progesterone part of the cycle (8/12) and really dont feel so good and Im sleeping terribly again. I thought the progesterone bit would make me sleep well but its not. Im waking multiple times at night, but not with hot sweats, just wide awake. I also feel headachy and irritable again, and starving hungry 9 which I was not on the oestrogen part) . the dose of utrogestan i am taking is 100mgs x2 at night. Could this be too much for me?? I have read about people taking the tablets vaginally and wanted to ask if this caused less side effects too.
Any advice or tips would be helpful.
Much appreciated. HAYJUDE.