Does anyone have any idea which HRT's might be more difficult to obtain?
Long story shorter. Though I'm nearly 68 & been off HRT for about 3 years, low dose which I cut up into 1/3rds for years & had little problem coming off it,
insomnia hit me out of the blue Oct/Nov 2021, & it registered that hot flushes had kicked in as well. More ferocious evening/night.
I'm tired of NEVER getting more than 3 hours a night of sleep, the rest of the time lying literally wide awake, like I've had 7-8 hours! I don't nap daytime/evenings, I've tried breathing techniques, CBT, Melatonin (gave me a stonking migraine), Nytol & Phenergan, no effect.
A locum GP did a telephone consult & gave me sleeping pills after I refused anti depressants (I'm not depressed & my mind isn't overactive at night time). Bit shocked that they were prescribed so willingly but I don't want to get hooked on those, they gave me about an extra 2hrs sleep when I did randomly succumb but they're not stopping the flushes so I don't think this is just about 'insomnia'.
My subsequent research indicates that low levels of oestrogen & progesterone can sometimes be responsible for insomnia, & an article in the newspaper the other day reinforced what I'd found on the internet. Seems to fit what is happening to me, damned hormones, I don't seem destined to get out the other side of the menopause....ever!
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I'm trying Black Cohosh for a while (jeez, there's nothing I didn't try YEARS ago in my 50s when meno kicked in, only succumbed to HRT once I'd literally tried EVERYTHING else), I can't believe that at 68 I'm back to square ONE. So I'm thinking of forcing a face to face with my own GP & trying to persuade him into prescribing one of the low dose ones again, even at my age. I can't continue with so little sleep, it's been 10 months now & flushes are doing my head in.
Some celebrities advocating HRT almost like a sort of fashion accessory may have made the lowest dose ones even more difficult to obtain now? Does anyone know? I don't want anything other than low or ultra low, I'd probably cut them up to obtain optimum lowest dose to fix sleep & flushes.