Hi all, new to the site so a huge hi from me to you all...
I am looking for advise really.. my symptoms started a year ago now ( Oct 2019 ) although if I’m honest a few months before I went to the Drs.
I had hot flushes and outbursts of emotions.. serious mood swings and I honestly felt like I have some kind of Personality disorder.
I went to doctors had bloods done etc and waited until November - didn’t hear anything so booked another appointment - my bloods needed redoing as fsh levels weren’t right.
Again redone and heard nothing- book an appointment waited about 3 weeks to be told that I was in menopause - put on HRT femoston 1/1 and referred to a specialist.
As you can imagine - by the time I saw anyone it was March... and I saw a doctor who then referred me to a fertility specialist but as u was STILL suffering horrific night sweats and mood swings he said I needed to loose some weight as I may not be eligible for ivf etc and upped my femoston to 2 a day instead of one and gave me a prescription of progesterone to also take. I couldn’t get the prescription filled as apparently in tablets form this is not abailiable anymore.. so I called and left messages and no reply - I am still yet to hear back.
I spoke I fertility specialist in august who gave me special blood test to be done on days 2,3,4 or period.. which I got done and she said she would call in September - no call so I chased it and booked for her to call in October.
In the mean time these emotional outbursts are awful, I u fortunately lost my dog and my world fell apart and I felt I couldn’t cope. I couldn’t sleep And all I could do was cry... constantly.
So I contacted the gp, she offering me mirtazipine - apparently a sleeping tablet was off the cards as only for emergencies! But she advised me these have a side affect of weight gain ( I’ve lost 2 stone since March- so that’s all I need )
I decided not to take them as I was going to speak to my specialist in a week so thought I could wait one more week and see if it’s something to do with hrt....
So two days ago I spoke to the fertility specialist my fsh levels are now in the normal range (surely they would be as I am on hrt?! ) but my oestridial is very high at 521 and my egg reserve is severely diminished so I explained I have been having two weekly periods ( which I explained in august also) and still suffering mood swings emotional outbursts etc and she told me I would need to discuss with dr who prescribed and that this is not something she can help with however she recommends a hysteroscopy to see if there is an underlining issue.
Today I receive a letter saying that I am post menopause and the nhs won’t fund any fertility cycles as my egg reserve is 0.1
I feel at my wits end and am so so sick of being passed from dr to dr I just want to know what’s going on and to feel better!!
Please any suggestions welcome, sorry for the life story !! Xxx