6 months in, celebrating my double menopause! :-)

[BorrowedThyme]

So, after everything bad I'd read on here, I was pretty alarmed when told this medication would give me a menopause with double symptoms, and was well and truly preparing to meet my doom.

But 6 months in and I'm loving it! Freedom! energy! drive!

( and a few hot flushes, but nothing major)

and best of all, I love that I don't feel obliged to be nice and kind to everyone all the time - I wouldn't be unkind, of course, but I have lost that sense of obligation to put myself last- no wonder menopausal women have a reputation for being "difficult" if all these women who have spent a life time being doormats suddenly rebel in middle age!

It is a wonderful rebellion and I'm loving it.

AIBU to tell you there is nothing to fear from this stage of life. For me, it has so far been the best yet.

I'm perimenopausal, 47 and have found your post truly uplifting! Thank you!

Is it a GnRH analogue?
I have had two medical menopauses (is that the correct plural?).
The first month can be a bit brutal (physically and mentally) because it forces your body into menopause so suddenly, but in my experience it's still preferable to the condition which it's treating.

I don't think its that, no, unless it has another name that is L something?

GnRH analogues are the class of medications which induce medical menopause. Examples include goserelin (Zoladex), leuprorelin (Prostap), triptorelin (Decapeptyl) etc.

no, it is none of those, it is letrozol.

As I understand it, Letrozol acts on oestrogen receptors to prevent oestrogen from having an effect (whereas GnRH analogues prevent the ovaries from producing oestrogen).

I feel much better when in full menopause than when not.

are you enjoying it too @Ashemark !