To think its not 'menopause' it's really a liver issue

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Hear me out
As a young girl I had hideous PMT, cramps, mood swings, migraines, acne, insomnia, cravings and then the period would arrive and it would be so heavy I would leak through my clothes. It was traumatic.
So logically surely when menopause arrived it would be a blessed relief? No more period no more symptoms?
Instead I'm told my belly fat, mood swings, headaches, itchy skin, brain fog, hot flushes, night sweats are because of my diminished hormones. So I jump on the bandwagon and try HRT. I gain even more weight and my hair falls out. I up my oestrogen and create an ovarian cyst. I try the combined patch and again my hair falls out in clumps and I get thrush.
I stop the HRT and read about fatty liver and stop all processed food. I've lost six pounds in three days and my belly is shrinking. Not had a hot flush since then and sleep is deeper.
If HRT works for you, great, but I was left feeling like a freak when I tried it over and over and it just made things worse. Anyone else?

I think it’s good and progress that women are confident and able to try hrt.
But we do need to realise that there can be another cause for health problems and also that hrt may be needed but may not provide a full solution.

There's different solutions for different women. I'm not on hrt myself, and it's ok, I do think the menopause is being attributed out of laziness by some doctors and we women are partly to blame by assuming it's the menopause too. Getting into a healthy lifestyle cannot hurt anyone anyway, if you still have unmanageable symptoms, see your gp.

Estrogen is stored in the liver so it might be one and the same problem.

Actually that reminds me, I think that when you reach menopause the “cholesterol” precursors which used to be used to form your female hormones are now surplus and can therefore be found as cholesterol in the blood or as deposits in fatty liver