Dear God Penelope - I could have written that post! Been there, done that and got all the T shirts! I was suffering and for many, many years. Try not to dwell to much on those 26 years P, just thank the lord that there was a solution and now you can have a life! In the beginning I was really mad about it all and I suppose I still am (just look at this post but I try not to dwek or let it out...cost posts like this are what happens
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) about the wasted years for something so simple but it's not helpful. All I wish now is I could think of some kind of action plan or education or impetus to ensure that no one else EVER has to go through what I (and indeed you and plenty of others) have had to go through.
So much wasted time, destroyed jobs, marriages and lives in general - its heartbreaking if you truly analyse it.
Surely it doesn't take much for a medical mind to work out thing like....problems with bad PMT = hormones! ?. Problems with postnatal depression or postnatal psychosis = hormones! ... Psych and other problems in meno = hormones and then if you coupled the patient history of someone who came to you not knowing it was peri/meno but they talked about bad PMT and postnatal depression and then said they felt unwell and they were between 45 and 55 - I cannot for the life of me fathom how the idiots cannot make the link to HORMONES!! and do something about it. They pfaff about going well "I don't know" and then send us for endless tests (ok in your case the thyroid one was important, but there were more pieces to the jigsaw) and cbt like you say Penelope when it's as plain as the nose on your face that HORMONES might be a good thing to consider somewhere in the picture?
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I'd like to be a one women evangelist to sort this once and for but I haven't a clue what could ne done about it. I thought this 30 years ago and they laughed at me...its not any better now, it still happening
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Sorry People ... I am having a bit of a rant this evening! on my behalf and other peoples, but....well it's all just exasperating and tragic at the same time.
I am jumping for joy (as well as ranting ha ha!) on your behalf Penelope
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and long may your "wellness" continue because I know just how you feel which is elated that FINALLY, it's better!!!
xxxx