To wonder if HRT would help with tiredness

[Dishwashersaurous]

I'm pretty sure that I'm perimenopausal. ( It's not straightforward because I had a hysterectomy but left a ovary a few years ago).

The main thing is that I'm just exhausted all the time. No matter what I'm just so tired.

So I was just wondering if HRT can help with the exhaustion and is it worth going to the gp.

Or is it just life.

So Aibu to wonder if hrt can help with being knackered

First I’d get vitamin B complex. Then I’d think about how you are sleeping, and if magnesium glycinate would help that. Then I’d look at HRT.

My combo does a bit, read Davinas book, it has some great tips

HRT can help if the cause of your fatigue is related to sex hormones.

You need to see the GP and investigate the cause of the fatigue before having any idea what is the correct treatment.

And I’d get your thyroid and B12 tested

I sleep better now that I’m on HRT, which in turn makes me less tired through the day. My sleep was very disrupted before then.

I'd go and get a blood test to rule out any other issues. It can confirm if you are perimenopausal.

I’d get your bloods checked. And do you drink alcohol?

I’ve been absolutely exhausted twice in my life. Once, I ended up having a vitamin d deficiency. I truly thought I must be dying. I was so exhausted I could barely go up a flight of stairs without needing to lie down after. Proper high dose vitamin d treatment and I felt completely normal in about a month.

The second time was when I was drinking fairly regularly. I’d end up needing a nap many days and I could barely drag myself out of bed in the mornings, even when I didn’t have a drink the day before. I stopped drinking and I’m perimenopausal, but only need a nap now if I’m poorly.

yes, being perimenopausal will very much make you feel fatigued all the time and a blood test is a good idea to look at iron levels too. You can’t do blood tests for P.M as it will only confirm once you have been through the menopause.
Any other symptoms such as brain fog? Anxiety? Feeling joyless ?

Fatigue was my biggest and most problematic symptom, everything else I can put up with really. Hrt has made an incredible difference.

I agree with what others have said about the blood test. Also bear in mind that when you get the results if you’re told it’s normal, write down the levels and see if they are at the bottom of the range. For me, I felt exhausted when my Vit D and iron levels were at the bottom end and felt so much better when I took strong supplements. HRT can help with exhaustion so might be worth a try to see if it helps. Is it possible you have a hang over from Covid. We had it earlier this year without too many symptoms but were exhausted after for a couple of months.

Yes absolutely, I felt completely exhausted every morning when I got up and then nearly all day! HRT helped enormously.

Blood test first to rule out anything.

Could be a thyroid or parathyroid problem.

Thanks all.

So I take b12, vitamin d, magnesium and a general multivitamin every day.

Each healthy mainly.

Making a couple of glasses of wine at the weekend, but no more than that.

7-8 sleep every night.

And I'm just exhausted.

Clearly I need to try and get an impossible non urgent gp appointment to get some bloods.

Or does anyone know if its possible to get bloods done privately, and if so how?

And one other thing I had a really nasty chest infection at the beginning of June, two lots of antibiotics.

But surely I should be feeling better by now?

I'm sort of just dragging myself through every day