Your GP is fudging the issue
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- many still believe that unless a woman complains of hot flushes, they are not menopausal. However!!!
Your symptoms may well be due to The Change. Have a browse round, make notes. Some ladies find that keeping a mood/food/symptom diary useful.
If a lady finds an HRT that suits - also HRT protects heart as well as bones - then there is no reason for her not to continue with treatment for as long as she wants. No reason other than GPs who want us to stop! but if we are told and if we accept the slight risks associated with HRT, then we should be able to continue. After all, if a lady is well on treatment then it must be better than continually being in the Surgery
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Apparently as oestrogen levels drop muscles can become lax = aches and pains. If you really can't get into the sunshine then ask your GP to check your VitD levels, a supplement may be required.
As for IBS - well hiatus hernia is 'common' at this stage of Life, probably due to laxity of muscles ……. making sure not to eat/drink too close to bed time helps me, if I take my meds too late then I get reflux
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which requires
Rennies x 2; eating little and often may help symptoms too. What tablets are you taking?
As for restless legs which only bother me at night although I am aware all the while, I've suffered intermittently all my Life. By chance in the mid-1990s I found that 3/4 small bananas a day stopped symptoms so I try to include one, several times a week. Otherwise I swallow two
Nurofen to ease symptoms. For me it's a lack of potassium.
You waffle away!