To ask for your post-menopausal success stories

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50yo here, have had bad menopause symptoms for around 18 months (periods stopped 2 years ago), somewhat mitigated by HRT. Am clinging on to the hope that it will pass and I’ll become a useful person at work and in life again. Please tell me all your brilliant post-menopause stories to keep me going!

Really, no one? That is pretty depressing!

I tried HRT and went batshit came off it and feel absolutely fine. Tired but no big issues. Everyone is different. What are you worried about?

I am post menopause. Struggling with a menopausal belly but otherwise fine and doing ok at work and in life.

Hello, I am 10 years post menopause and still have hot flashes, I can’t help you sorry, menopause is shit.

What exactly are you worried about?

I am 52 and maybe 2 years in.

Only symptoms were really heavy periods and diminished sex-drive. Yet to experience a hot flush or anything else I can attribute.

Mirena stopped my periods, oestrogel seems fine, testosterone has been bloody marvellous

Hi Op. I’m 52 and been on HRT about 2 years. I had a hysterectomy at 43, kept my ovaries but was warned they would go sleepy without a full blood supply, so not sure when I fully started menopause.

menopause symptoms crept up on me and I didn’t really realise what was happening to me. The hot flushes (constant and 10’s of time a day) were expected. What I didn’t expect or realise was menopause related, was my complete change in personality. I had awful anxiety attacks, my patience disappeared (was never good anyway, so you can imagine how bad it got!), was angry with everything in my life, my joints wouldn’t work for an hour after getting out of bed and didn’t fully recover throughout the day, no short term memory. Numerous other things. I completely felt like a different person.

HRT ( 50mg patches) has made a big difference. I’m still not completely the person I was when younger, but am much, much better. I have also developed some coping mechanisms ( understand my late mothers need for lists and reminders for example!).

I think there is an expectation that women go THROUGH menopause. I’m not sure it’s a journey with an ending though. It would be good to hear from some older women on how they felt.

I'm fairly sure I've been going through it for at least the last 2/3 years. I've had hot flushes but only at night, my period has completely stopped for at least the last 6 months.
Judging by what Ive read online and know from other women in real life, it seems I've been incredibly lucky, so far.

I am 62 and had quite a late menopause, periods until 57 and in peri for about seven or eight years. That was a challenging time as it coincided with lots of stress at work. Really struggled with fatigue ,mood swings and brain fog at that time but funnily enough not too many hot flushes which I was surprised about. I tried HRT but it wasn’t great for me and I stopped it. Coped by doing plenty of exercise , yoga, Pilates etc and that helped with the low moods.
Fast forward to now….I definitely feel that my moods have stabilised the brain fog has lifted….i wasn’t going mad….I generally feel much more positive, I have kept up with the yoga and exercise and feel that this keeping me in a good place. I definitely feel like I have come through the other side now and I am embracing the next phase of my life.
All the best to you OP it will pass and you will get through it.