Hi everyone I am new here. I am 49 and began to have symptoms of the perimenopause last year. I haven’t had periods for years as I have a coil, and I also went through several changes of medication last year to get my crohns under control, so it was hard to tell whether my symptoms were to do with that.
Now my crohns is under control but I still have problems like night sweats, insomnia, joint pain and worst of all anxiety. I would put up with everything else without medication but the anxiety is really affecting my quality of life.
I have spoken to my GP and she is reluctant to prescribe HRT because of the Crohn’s disease. Apparently it would put me at increased risk of blood clots. Instead she wants to give me anti depressants which can apparently help with menopause symptoms. However I am reluctant to take them. Perhaps because of the stigma attached to them.
We left it that I would do some research and make another appointment in a couple of weeks. She seems to want me to decide on the treatment and go back to her, which seems wrong. Surely she should recommend something to me?
Anyway I wondered if anyone had had any success treating menopause symptoms with anti depressants?
