Hi everyone, Thought i better introduce myself. I am 32 yrs old and was diagnosised with early menopause or Premature Ovarian Insufficiency last year , I am almost one year on since the diagnosis. My doctor thought that I may have been going through the menopause for a while without realising it as I was on birth control pills for years.
Started to have hot flushes, super high anxiety, super itchy skin, in the summer of 2015 while on birth control pills, put it down to stress and the fact it was summer, then when i came off the birth control pills in sept 2015, my periods never came back and i was still experiencing the hot flushes, anxiety and all that so i started to wonder , then 2 blood tests in jan to feb 2016 confirmed it so went on Premique 0.625mg/5mg and it made all the symptoms disappear, much happier then few weeks ago, found out that premique was discontinued so had to switch over to Indivina 2mg/5mg so giving it 3 months to see how it is going again.
A lot of things I never thought about suddenly made sense ie i gained weight and still cant get it off, it is like my body is against eating healthy food as i bloat so badly eating bananas or wheat based cereals etc. I have been tested for gluten and i am fine with gluten.
It was upsetting to find out that I won't be able to have kids naturally cos I hadn't reached that stage with my boyfriend and I always thought that kids would be in my future, I know there are other ways of doing it ie egg donor and stuff but I am not ready to think about that just yet.
I have to say that My boyfriend have been wonderful and understanding through all this, he have supported me massively and is accepting that we may have to do things differently.
Sorry this is long ramble!!
