I began the menopause at 50 my final period was on my 50th birthday had regular periods up until then, they just stopped. I'm 55 this year. I began getting quite bad flushes about a year after my last period suffered them for as long as I could but then decided to try HRT.
Dr prescribed Elleste Dou conti in August last year, flushes disappeared after about 3 weeks and I felt really good until near Christmas when I began to feel really depressed and anxious I've never felt so low in my life and had never suffered from these feelings before, had to take time off work just couldn't face talking to people. The whole episode lasted about 4 weeks.
I felt it must have been the HRT causing the depression as my life wasn't stressful and I had no real worries. I went to the doc and asked for a lower dose to see if that would help, was put on Kliovance and felt back to my normal self.
But I've now decided I don't want to take HRT any more and have weaned myself of the Kliovance by reducing the dose but for the last week I've been feeling low again, not as bad as the last episode though.
I've not taken any HRT for 4 days now so I'll have to wait and see how it goes.
I'm due to go on holiday on June 10 and am worried that I'll have a depressive episode while away asked the doc about this and was told to see how I felt in about 3 weeks and if still low he could prescribe anti depressants, I really don't want to go down that route because of side effects.
What I'd like to know is has anyone suffered from depression and anxiety while taking HRT and stopped taking it and felt better?
I know mood swings are part of the menopause but I just have a gut feeling that the HRT caused me to feel so low.
