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[Kathleen]

Hello again ladies.

This forum is a such a comfort because everyone here understands the struggles we have ( unlike your recently retired GP Fiona1968!).

Surges of one sort or another, both good and bad have been a feature of my post meno years. I was never a moody person when younger or a wildly emotional one so all this feels very odd.

At my Consultant appointment last week I explained that my physical symptoms are sorted with my HRT but my mood changes are like the emotional equivalent of a hot flush. He said many of his patients had complained of the same thing.

Fiona1968 - I hope your HRT helps with your anxiety and do please keep us updated.

Take care ladies.

K.

[Fiona1968]

Hi Kathleen

 I remember you saying that your “emotional/ psychological symptoms are the most troublesome” and that runs so true for me too. I too feel odd that all of a sudden this Anxiety has appeared in my life …

It’s a relief that your physical symptoms have settled and I will keep you posted on how I get on with my HRT.

Thanks

Fiona

[Losingtheplot]

My worst symptoms were anxiety and insomnia, both cured by hrt though it did take 3 months on it. If your anxiety arrived with peri there's a good chance hrt will cure it (though obviously there are other causes of anxiety too).

Hi Sheila

I also am suffering terribly with anxiety first thing on a morning its crippling. I am so pleased yours improved on HRT. I was given HRT to try but I had an intolerance to progesterone in the patches I used weeks 3 and 4. This was my 1st HRT and only managed to try it for 1.5 months
Ive been asked by my GP to see how I go without HRT so currently taking nothing and the anxiety is getting too much for me to handle on a morning so much so I dread opening my eyes.

Can I just ask which HRT helped you? I know not one fit for all but I am currently trying natural vits and not seeing any improvement yet

[Losingtheplot]

Hi Kathleen

I do hope this is helping you but it's terrible to realise that low oestrogen has the power to cause emotional distress.

The sensations you describe, I get them from time to time.  I'm a sensitive person and I'm always worried that someone at work is going to say something bad to me and I'm going to crumble.  I do visualise being in control if this happens but my brain always goes back to bad things and it makes me feel particularly insecure. I have to say, I've always been an anxious person since I was 5 or 6 years old. 

I'm not on HRT or AD.  I am worried about the side-effects of these.

Karine

Hi

I am so sorry you are feeling like this but I can completely relate.

Its just so awful. I am too very sensitive and hate confrontation but more so recently with awful internal fluttering feeling of panick. Have you spoken to  GP/ specialist about what treatment options would be available to you?
Xxx

[flossie fiddler]

What an ignorant GP! They must never have had anxiety to say that. I really am sorry you had such a horrid experience Fiona. I would make a complaint about her.

She was retiring at the end of that week I had my telephone consultation. I did say to her “you obviously have your retirement head on” and when she mentioned going out for a walk I told her that sometimes I can’t even leave the house. She wasn’t interested and I had to ask for the HRT to try otherwise the call would have ended with no outcome. I was raging for quite a while that day… Anyway, onwards and hopefully upwards.

Thanks

Oh my, your consultation sounds similar to my first one when I decided to go back on HRT.. I got a locum, who just wouldn’t let me speak. She was rude, told me I couldn’t have HRT because I’d been on it for 6 years before my 2.5 year break. But armed with knowledge from this forum, I told her that she couldn’t refuse it if I knew the risks, and wanted it. In the end she gave me a 1 month supply(!) of Evorel Conti, just to shut me up. I was tearful and raging in equal measures after that. When I realised she’d only given me 1 months supply, I rang the practice and spoke to the manager, who explained she was a locum, and that she was gone at the end of the week “and certainly won’t be coming back to this practice”. Manager was brilliant and got me an appt with a nurse at another practice who is trained as a menopause nurse. I haven’t looked back.

Don’t give up. If you don’t get the outcome you want from one place, keep trying. It’s exhausting when you feel terrible, anxious etc, but worth it.

[Losingtheplot]

My worst symptoms were anxiety and insomnia, both cured by hrt though it did take 3 months on it. If your anxiety arrived with peri there's a good chance hrt will cure it (though obviously there are other causes of anxiety too).

Hi Shelia,

This is reassuring to hear that HRT helped your anxiety etc as I am suffering terribly at the moment and only on week3 of new HRT.  So I am undecided whether to carry on till 3 months is up or start ADs alongside