Yes, I agree - chemicals/hormones send us haywire!
Thanks, Kathleen - we need positive news!
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Hi TropicalVon69, yes, it is a pain! Grrr! Waking up in the night seems to start the anxiety off - I have Valium as well for emergencies. I stopped HRT last summer after a month of feeling fantastic (barely any pms) because, following that, my tummy became bloated, my boobs were extremely sore, my legs ached badly & a certain area became very swollen & sore! (What was THAT about?!). Coinciding with this, I put on half a stone. I was on Oestrogel & hadn't yet started the Utrogestan part of it because I was told to leave it for the first month. I was then terrified of starting the Utrogestan because I get severe PMS & had read horror stories of how that part of the HRT made some women feel much worse. It turned out that my own oestrogen had surged following the first month so that I had too much oestrogen in my system. That's the trouble with peri - it is not easy to get the balance right.
The HRT was originally prescribed to me because I had recently experienced spotting between periods & I was flooding. Ironically, the spotting stopped for months afterwards & I only experienced it again recently. I have now been referred for endometrial ablation & will be seeing the consultant on Monday to discuss my recent scan results (there was a small fibroid). I will see what he says. Maybe everything will be much better once we become post meno!
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