Groan
I just wanted to let you know I've emailed Dr Currie and have now had my reply. Whilst there was lots of helpful information in her reply, for which I'm very grateful, I'm left feeling even more naffed off!! NOT with her BTW but my symptoms.
She did tell me that I could use the pessaries for VA off licence 5 times a week which tbh I can tell now I definitely need. She also suggested I ask the GP if I could try HRT in a tablet form and not cyclical but taking progesterone continuously as she says my periods would have naturally finished by now.
I do agree because I haven't had a natural bleed for over a year now and only 2 caused by the HRT.
But it's the sleep thing. I was so hoping she'd have a great suggestion and bingo, there would be my path to sleep. But alas, no. She sent me a link to the fact sheet about sleep disturbance during menopause and it honestly looks like there's nothing can be done.
Reading through it, I'm really strict with my sleep routine already, get tons of exercise, eat healthily - in fact I've just lost a stone of menopausal podge!! I don't have sleep apnea. I feel really down that there seems to be nothing I can do particularly as the progestogen tablets don't make me sleep any better. Now it's getting lighter in the morning, in spite of blackout curtains, I'm waking and staying awake even earlier too on top of contact waking throughout the night.
Sorry ladies im moaning again, I was just really hoping there'd be something I could do.
I've even tried diazepam and Amitriptyline which I had in the cupboard from a while ago, neither made any difference, I still kept waking up as normal.
Does anyone have any suggestions where I should go next? I don't think I can keep going with this level of exhaustion anymore. We had 7 of my husbands grandchildren here on Saturday and yesterday I was so exhausted it was all I could do to try to tidy up. Yet I still didn't sleep any better last night. I'm getting desperate now.