Thanks Michelle and Hurdity,
It can be hard when you feel like you are going through this alone.
My husband instantly thinks depression as this is what he has had, but it is hard to explain that at times you feel really good....before you take progesterone. It isn't new...PMT was there during virtually every cycle and from all my reading in the last couple of days seems to lead to the conclusion that it is the progesterone. In fact reading a couple of posts on here just made me feel so much better to know I wasn't alone from this.
Whenever I have had a meltdown in the past it has always been in that time of my cycle...it was one common feature.
Have tried provera and norethisterine which, until recently, have been the only progesterones available on public prescription here. Although have been on progynova, GP has asked me to try Estradot for this cycle. She is waiting for the Conusltant's input on progesterone, given the success of oestrogen only on first cycle and the thought that it is only a month away does not give me that large a risk for endometrial lining problems, given the fact that I am having relatively regular periods still, so likely to be producing my own progesterone as well, but knows this cannot continue. I was all for giving up on Monday, unable to deal with severe lows.
The one lightbulb that did go on related to a 90km cycle race I did in Feb. for only the second time in my life my period had not started, so 5 days before the race was given norethisterone in a high dose to attempt to prevent it starting. My body had been under stress with training ( let's put it this was...I am not a natural athlete and hadn't been on a bike for 30 plus year until last year)
My mood became lower and I felt snarly in the time before the race but I put it down to stress. I thought I had given it my all when I came off the bike drained. The next day I stopped norethisterone immediately as I didn't need to hold off period any longer, I spent down a black hole, when I should have been celebrating what I had achieved! I cried on and off for the entire trip home. I thought it had been exhaustion, taking everything from my body. Took about 3 days to clear. Now I'm not so sure and neither is the GP.
I had done everything to try and make the menopause better, knowing I had a rough time in my teens, PMT, IVF etc. in the two and a half years I have developed a regular my habit, dropped almost 15kgs although 5 have gone back on, become fit and active. But the mentalpause aspects are a pain!
It is the brain fog, fatigue, lack of concentration, feeling down, periodic insomnia, increased headaches that are definitely the worst parts of this journey for me. Oestrogen really helped there...but the progesterone just brings it back and more!
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