Please tell me how AMAZING you feel post menopause

[BrassicaBabe]

I'm in peri menopause hell. I'm on HRT and doing all of the things I'm supposed to.

But please gather and tell me how bloody marvellous you feel "on the other side"! I need to share your light that was at the end of the tunnel

Watching this to also hopefully hear some good news about "the other side"

Post menopause here (4 years), still waiting to feel wonderful.....

<laughs hysterically>

I feel great!

I've upped exercise - that's helped. Using local hrt

I’m post menopause, almost 57, still take HRT.
I’m way better than I was but I wouldn’t say I feel fantastic.
I certainly don’t feel old but I can’t expect to feel as good as I did in my 30’s 🤷‍♀️

Ten years post menopause here, and most of the physical niggles (and brain fog) that characterised me then are still the same today. I tend to put them down to ageing rather than menopause, so haven't expected them to improve. I think much much more is attributed to menopause now than it was even ten years ago

I wish I could offer good news ..... sadly I can't. I have felt unremittingly crap since the menopause and every day is achieved by dint of sheer determination. Sorry ....

Testosterone was the game changer for me. I honestly feel as good as I did in my 20s. Also exercise, strength training, cutting right back on alcohol and eating lots of protein have made a big impact.

I've been in menopause since 38 due to chemo. I'm now 53, and I still don't feel great even though I lead a healthy (boring) life. I'm planning on taking a year off work to catch up on sleep after suffering years of chronic insomnia.

Another vote for getting a tiny dose of testosterone. Gives you back your va va voom! And when you have more energy then it's so much easier to do the other healthy things like going on long walks and eating loads of veg etc.

I'm also ten years on. I didn't have much in the way of symptoms and pretty much sailed through the menopause. It's only really at 64 that I've experienced brain fog and physical aches and pains so how much is the menopause and how much is down to natural ageing?

Yes, we seem to have created a narrative in the last couple of years that the menopause it itself is like an illness (rather than saying that some women develop health problems associated with menopause). It feels quite retrograde to me because it positions 'women of a certain age' as being somehow intrinsically faulty. And the 'certain age' in question is already one in which women become more and more the object of a distinctive mix of ageism and sexism.

I'm nearly 60, no HRT or any kind of medication, and no periods for nearly 3 years. Hurrah! So nice to have all that nonsense over with, tbh.

I feel great.
And realise how awful I felt on Oestrogen etc.
But I've also had other health issues sorted and am no longer anaemic.
I also quite enjoy being reasonably fit but invisible.

Same - although no periods since I was 46 (hysterectomy). Feel great, lots of energy most days. So glad I'm on the other side 😊

Nearly 59 and 8 years post menopause. No HRT. Hot flushes and night sweats have been and gone. A little irrational anxiety still but perfectly manageable. Peri weight gain has reversed without effort. No periods. No PMT. Feeling really good!

😐

@Aethelthryth Oh forgot about the PMT. Omg yes - that was a huge plus. None of that now

I had a fairly hellish perimenopause with torrential bleeding, aching joints and poor sleep followed by recurrent UTIs. It's now 9 years since my last period and I feel better than I have done since my periods first started at 14. I still get hot flushes, which are more of a nuisance now, but I am much fitter and happier. I still wake up early (about 5.30-6ish) but use this to my advantage to go for a 5k run or out on my bike while it is quiet on the roads and have so much more energy now I am not permanently anaemic. I'm not on HRT but do use vaginal oestrogen which has prevented a recurrence of any UTIs.

Good luck BrassicaBabe, it can and hopefully will get so much better.

I've had to come off HRT at 55 (reasons), 2 months off it and it's not too bad. Echo the thoughts above though that if you can get testosterone do - it made a big difference to me.

It’s fabulous! No HRT required, I was too busy dealing with full time work and terminally ill parents to look after myself during peri. Now in my 60’s. Last parent passed aged 96 two years ago and I’m retired, back to the weight training I didn’t have time for in my fifties. I’m about 75% of the lifting stats I was achieving 20 years ago and no hormonal cycles to worry about.

I'm nearly 68 so menopause was a few years ago. Yes, it was pants but now I'm on the other side of breast cancer (not great) and auto-immune ezcema (infinitely worse than BC for me), I feel great again: as good as being 40. Plenty of energy, stable of emotion and no hormonal problems. Fit as a fiddle in fact. Wishing the same for every woman.

Is it possible that this is a case of what was bad during fertile years (the periods and hormonal fluctuations, etc., etc.) is replaced by what's bad about being menopausal? I ask this in hope as I clicked on the thread hoping like the OP to be encouraged about the future! I'm nearly menopausal, just a few weeks to go, but I have still had "PMT" over this past year, no periods but the familiar emotional/hormonal fluctuations. I've only had it a handlful of times over his past year, and the distance now that I don't have it monthly has really given me perspective. During this PMT I've experieince all the old sense of doom and dread and a hyper sensitivity to the world around me, etc., and I've realised that in the absence of this monthly need to hunker down and keep on top of my emotions I've experienced lengthy periods of easy confidence.

I'm 56, feel fine, little bit more tired than I was in my twenties. But otherwise, totally normal.