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To beg for advice on monthly hormonal symptoms

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Tart306 · 24/07/2025 13:27

I am in my mid 30s and fed up, like many women I imagine, with having to put up with this crap every 4 weeks.
Sudden weight gain all over/water retention, gas, waking up with 10 new spots on your face, headaches, tiredness, feeling teary, and so on.
Sometimes greasier hair and skin. Sore breasts.
Fed up with it, the advice online seems to be 'eat well and do gentle exercise' which is not going to stop things.
I take the mini pill but still bleed, is there anything people do or take that helps alleviate any of the rubbish we have to put up with?

OP posts:
clarepetal · 24/07/2025 17:34

Hrt

Tart306 · 24/07/2025 17:42

clarepetal · 24/07/2025 17:34

Hrt

Thanks, would I be eligible at 35 as not yet in peri?

OP posts:
PeriJane · 24/07/2025 17:45

I gave up drinking alcohol. The difference it made was astounding and I really wasn’t expecting it. Alcohol definitely makes my peri menopause symptoms much worse. Now I only drink very very occasionally, rather than weekly. I wasn’t a big drinker but a regular drinker.

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