Hi I've just joined this forum and looks like lots of great advice on here.
So about me, I'm 53 and in the menopause 3 years now, before that peri for about 3-4 years I reckon. I've had most of the typical symptoms hot flushes ,night sweats, tiredness,anxiety, no sex drive, aches and pains,zoning out and being
less emotional, funnily enough.
I had low dose HRT for 18 months as lack of sleep was god awful with night sweats and I find it really difficult to function without sleep. (Dont know how I managed the children years.... oh yes I was much younger!!) I only took it for short time as breast cancer /cancer in my family and really just wanted to get over that initial year or so.
I've been off it 3 months now and although still have the symptoms above, the flushes and sweats do seem to be less than before hrt.
My main concern is the lack of libido which didn't get any better when on hrt . I will probably post in main forum for advice.
Doryblue