Morning joziel,
My g.p along with my own input, initially increased my hrt patches to try to relieve physical and emotional\mental health symptoms.
Whilst I have always had bad pms, peri has ( like for so many of us ) made huge negative differences to my pms mood swings. As in huge. After these began getting far worse I spoke with my g.p who indicated that it had developed into pmdd symptoms. Some really severe moods and scary suicidal thoughts. All cyclical related. Never been As bad as this ever.
As we know,Peri seems to intensify the 'normal ' cyclical fluctuations of our own cycles. In my own case, the mood swings being the worse.
My g.p indicated that by adding such high dose of oestrogen it is indeed to STOP ovulation. Creating a ( hopeful) end to the mad fluctuations.
As to how this works, I do not know.
As I try to balance everything going on, sometimes I cannot take on too much deep info at once. My mind can't handle too much all at once. I may be seen as naive or uncaring, but after working with the anxiety, physical symptoms and mood swings, let alone other non hormonal health problems, I know when to accept a trial of hrt, so to get to the best balanced state I can and not freak out at taking more on board!
I think peri\meno gives us a better understanding of ourselves, both the good and bad, and also for me knowing when to just do it, not overthink it.
X