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[Peroxideblader]

Thanks butterfly good luck too.
GRL I feel better after you say you didn't have the 'usual' meno symptoms I'm the same with the depression although I've suffered on and off nothing like 4 years ago when I had a breakdown from nowhere started severe panic attacks and social anxiety now I avoid everybody and anything that involves meeting people. Same time this sleep delay started but as my periods were regular I didn't think menopause at all. The last 2 years they've got irregular and I thought this is it in may when I missed 2 periods got hot flushes but then had a ruptured ovarian cyst which they think caused my flushes and missed period as mo more flushes and periods are regular ish albeit always late upto 35 days from 28. When the oestrogen part of femoston made my low mood plummet even worse the gp said it was too much oestrigen meaning I'm not low hence not menopause.  It's such a dilemma

[Nasil41]

I am reading this thread with interest as I too suffered a breakdown 2 years ago. I was actually hospitalised I was so ill with depression and anxiety. I was no stranger to anxiety as had had previous episodes and within 2 weeks of starting ADs  I was able to function again. I have had traumas over the years and then my son's diagnosis 7 months prior to my breakdown I can see what would of triggered it but my god I thought my life was over as I couldn't live that way. It started with waking up very early shaking from head to foot, I was surviving on 3 hours sleep. I tried a few ADs but nothing was working I just couldn't understand why it was so severe it just seemed to extreme! I was also aching all over in my joints and my periods where much heavier and with clots. I didn't know anything about perimenopause at the time and it wasn't until I found this site and talking to my GP and also a mental health worker. I'm not blaming all that happened to me on peri but we think that could of exhabirated it. So last week I started hrt, im not expecting miracles but I'm praying that it will help with that extra depression that reared it's  head again last month.
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Good luck ladies I think we need it

[Butterfly22]

Sorry to hear you've been through such a bad time, I do think if you find the right one you can cope, and like yourself and me sometimes we need AD's too.
Fingers crossed your HRT helps xxx

[peri]

For what it's worth Nasil41 I think lots of ladies have probably had a hard time going through menopause and not received the support they needed.  There's a lot of ignorance still about the meno and symptoms and that is why this site is a God send to those suffering who think they're going mad.  There's still a long way to go I feel educating GP's who after all are general practitioners not menopause experts.  It's no coincidence though that so many women must show up at the doctors around meno age and I find it hard to believe how no one has made the correlation.

Sorry you had a hard time and glad you're feeling better and on the road to recovery x

[Roseneath]

Ladies. I just had one of those ' blindingly obvious' moments in the shower.  One thing I have learnt from this site is there is no consistent approach to peri/meno from our GPs; they just throw paint at the canvas and see what happens. Surely this misery we are all in is  hormone driven. Why isn't there a standard policy of testing hormones say 4 times a day every week for a month. It would at least provide an indication if the symptoms are driven by 'high', 'low' or ' up and down' hormones and which one which would lead to better treatment advice on if an HRT or AD or other route is suitable.  The HRT I was put on made my symptoms (anxiety/insomnia) much much worse and added some more I didn't have before, then I was told maybe my hormones were too high to begin so the medication could have just heightened everything.    Surely it would save the NHS and society so much time and money as well as the suffering you read about on this site for the sake of maybe 16 blood tests. Am I missing something here......

[CLKD]

Cost, cost, cost .......... also, hormone tests are reliably un-reliable.  Far better to go on symptoms in general.  Never mind GPs needing more training, it's something that women need to be aware of: we know that menopause will happen, what is less well known is how devastating symptoms might be.  I would like to see a Specialist Nurse in every Practice who is menopause aware!

[Peroxideblader]

Nasil41 I really feel for you a breakdown is literally what it says my body and mind broke down I couldn't function and was so low I couldn't see a way out. Whether or not it was hormones I can't say as I did have a build up of factors I'd try to bury and they all came to a head and luckily ADs saved my life and still keep me from falling off the edge of the precipice.  Can I ask what hrt you've just started with having similar depression anxiety issues I'm due to trial oestrogel/utrigestan next period I'm one scared lady 

[Peroxideblader]

Roseneath..I agree it is the only ailment illness whatever you want to call it that gets treated without blood tests or scans proving anything.  I know like CLKD said they are unreliable but only if taken on random few days if you tested daily for 28 day cycle surely it would give an accurate reading. I don't know if I'm low high normal which one is low high as my symptoms fit in to both the low and high bracket...and like you when I took 11 days of oestrogen I had to quit I was that low mood and my gp said that's because I obviously don't need oestrigen and I'm overloading with hrt hence the low mood..so to her I am not peri or the hrt would have lifted my mood??? Sooooooo confusing

[Nasil41]

Hi peroxidebladder I started femseven sequi 11 days ago and up to now I haven't noticed any difference no better no worse but it's early days I think the test will be next week when I put the combined patch on so I'm a bit scared about that. It hasn't increased any anxiety yet which I was also worried about im just a bit concerned about waking up early with a headache im not sure if it's too do with patch or if it's my sinuses or my pillow as neck was a bit stiff too. I also increased my mirt  the same day as starting patches so it could be that too, I just hope it's not my bp.
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[Peroxideblader]

That's positive that you've no effects as yet and fingers crossed it'll continue..I might not even get past the oestrogen stage . Your increase in AD will cause side effects too though so like you said for now you won't know what is causing what. I started my femoston when I had a really bad virus had sickness sinusitis headache you name it so for the first week I thought it was viral but then realised it was hrt..good luck keep us posted 

[dangermouse]

I do remember watching 'This Morning' earlier in the year and a woman called in about perimenopause and the female doctor on there told her to ask her GP to perform a set of cyclical blood tests which were over a period of a few days. This may be similar although I remember thinking at the time, good luck with getting your doc to do that!

[Peroxideblader]

Exactly there's no nhs doctor will agree to that..my ex sister in law would take my bloods every day but it's how she tests them unless I agree with my gp for her to take blood and they test them . She is a retired nurse after 50 years with nhs