Hello again ladies, I just thought you might like to know about something quite interesting that appears to be happening to me!
As those who have read through this thread will be aware, I had a bit of a bungle with my HRT prescription after the unexpected news that my Prempak C had been discontinued. My doctor put me on low doze Premique as an alternative, however that, as it turned out, wasn't really a decent alternative at all, being as my Prempak C was "medium doze" and "sequential" (so, with a monthly bleed), however the Premique was "low doze" and "non-sequential" (no monthly bleed). After speaking to a very nice lady called Catriona at the local menopause clinic I went back to my doctor armed with her advice, which was to try something like Femiston 2/10. Fortunately the doctor was more than happy to comply.
Anyway, after around 3 weeks of struggling by on the Premique, as I'd started the packet so was advised to finish (night sweats started returning rather rapidly just over a week in
) and then a further couple of weeks of symptoms gradually improving after I started on the first packet of Femiston 2/10, something appears to be happening that I DID'NT expect, I have noticed a perceptible lifting of the "brain fog" and slow-wittedness that's proved so tiresome for the past few years, AND I've recently been feeling a whole lot more alive and alert, in general, which is just so much more fabulous than I can express In fact, it may sound daft, I actually feel younger!
So what's this all about? Was I just on the wrong HRT - for me, anyway - for all those years?
I know that Prempak C and Premique are two of the much older versions of HRT, and that Femiston is far newer and more modern, as well as being synthetically made in the lab rather than using the old, ah, horse piss...
...so maybe the older types alleviated my symptoms, but on the other hand just didn't really suit me as far as my mental acuity was concerned??
Who knows. What I do know is that I've gone on a diet, bought some new clothes, had my hair re-styled and and changed the colour, and yesterday I went out and bought paper and paint to start decorating two fights of stairs and a landing!!