Hi,
I hope I don’t upset anyone here, that’s not my intention! … but hrt, specifically estrogen DOES treat low mood, anxiety and depression (so long as it’s caused by hormones anyway) I have high doses. I had a full hysterectomy including ovaries to treat mood. High levels of estrogen keep me lucid!
Research papers by professor John studd and mr nick panay. Both pioneers in the effects of low estrogen on mood and how most women are incorrectly treated with anti depressants and even lithium for bipolar…. When in fact it’s estrogen they need. GP’s know diddly squat about menopause and hormones and way too many women suffer because of this. I spent 10 years in absolute hell. In a zombie like state, suicidal and a fraction of myself. Go told me I had depression, bi polar, fibromyalgia and everything else under the sun but I refused all their advice and medication because I knew it was none of that. After many years of research I found plenty of info on estrogen and how it’s mid diagnosed. I went to my gynae surgeon, armed with much paperwork and demanded a total hysterectomy at 35! He agreed…. Fast forward 7 years.. I’ve retrained… twice, I travel, I earn, I live…. I feel better than I ever have in my life. Research, research, research!!! Try to get to see me nick panay at chelsea and Westminster. They are fantastic and promise you won’t regret it xx
I agree with you though my experience at Chelsea & Westminster so far has been awful - I waited 4 months for a referral, it was cancelled at last minute and postponed a further two months, when it finally came around it was phone only, with a nurse.
There is no way a phone call can cut it for something as fraught as menopause, at least not as a first point of contact to build up a rapport. They ordered tests and the nurse failed to tell me that my follow-up would be 5 months later, I found this out via a text that I couldnt answer.
They then failed to send either me or my GP test results, so I had to go through a ridiculously circuitous route to obtain them, the hospital wouldn't give them to me in response to my many emails, a friend's 12 year old (
) suggested I sign up to the hospital app and this finally gave me some (but not all) of my results, one of which is a very low level of estrogen despite 3 years on estrogel.
But according to the C&W way of doing things, I'm supposed to suffer in silence for 5 months, on top of the lost previous 3 years in which I obviously havent absorbed a dot of estrogen.
With this I want to say that while Nick Panay is undoubtedly a leading light in menopause treament, his NHS clinic at C&W in its current state is abysmal in my experience.
