Yes, hormones are an absolute nightmare sometimes and not fun when you have other illness. I’m hypothyroid also and figuring out what is menopause and what is thyroid is a struggle! I wasn’t on HRT when I got covid but I had long covid and that was affecting my meno symptoms a lot, I just felt floored with my energy and fed up. I had to move location in the middle of the pandemic feeling like that too!
Do you have a supportive partner or family? My husband is my rock and I would be so much worse off without him. I could take time off work and everything. I’m overall massively better after 8 months. My energy is the most improved thing, I was a super fit person and spent 7 years frustrated not being able to be as active so mentally it’s helped so so much being able to get back to that- I think the testosterone helped the most with that. The only things left for me seem to be this GERD type issue which only just recently triggered palpitations during the Utrogestan phase. It’s awful but because I’m stronger overall I am coping ok. I’ve had anxiety for years so that’s my real battle left, and the therapy I have is moving that along really well. I still have my cry days now and then not nowhere near as much. I now believe I will be normal again, whereas before HRT I thought this is it, I’m going to be tired anxious and a waste of space forever! I can get real down like that. But things are looking up. Believe it can happen for you. Take it one day at a time, as Flossie says, and atm each day I get to the end and think about 5 small achievements of my day. When I was more poorly I would include even making the bed as a big deal, something I learnt from a depression campaigner, make your bed if nothing else so every day you achieve something and feel good about it. Little things like that can be helpful.
