If you came off HRT please help!

[GrannyWeatherwaxxx]

My doctor removed me from HRT last week, cold turkey, and I am livid. I’m angry, I’m tired, I’m sick to death of everyone, including DH and DC, and everything. I’m miserable, the world is a shit place and all I want to do is stuff my face full of shit, scream at the top of my lungs for 10 minutes, cry for 20 minutes and then sleep for a week but it’s the summer holidays so I have to parent small DC instead.

I’m fat, disgusting, angry, sad and full of wrinkles at only 38. Hormones have ruined my life and they won’t fuck off.

How long does this last? What made it better? I have never felt this…angry and sad. And I’ve had depression. I have ADHD too and currently not on meds, that probably isn’t helping.

Just got on with it. I had constant bleeding and had to have a hysteroscopy on a 2 week pathway so my anxiety at peak level. I just stopped immediately against my doctors advice who told me to taper but I'd just had enough. It levelled out eventually but I can't really say when I got back to normal again - couple of months?

WTF? Why did they take you off??

It hasn’t solved any issues. I was on for a week short of 3 months and I bleed nearly constantly. They want me to just use the mirena coil to see if that works.

Constant bleeding is my main issue and why I went on HRT. Full investigation but nothing has come up. A couple of months is a long time to feel this way, fuck.

You need a referral to a specialist. At 38 and having gynae issues or issues potentially requiring HRT then there is something going on. Push push push for a referral to a gynaecology clinic.

I'd also argue that in the past 3 months if you haven't felt miserable and tearful then it was doing something.

They wrote to gynae a year ago, have t heard anything since, I guess im in the list? Doctor said all they would do is take me off and use mirena anyway? I don’t mind, I just didn’t realise that it would escalate these feelings. I just want to feel normal. ETA I did feel angry and sad but not like this. I’m fizzing with anger today.

If there were no issues with op sounds like you haven’t got oestrogen/prog balance right & absorption. Patch? Prog pill?

Can you pay to see someone privately?

I wish I could afford to but sadly no. I don’t have a problem with trying coming back off HRT but I just don’t know if I can feel this way for weeks or months on end.

I had patches. I had issues on them, that was the problem they didn’t make anything better. Still inconsistent bleeding and still not feeling right. But since coming off I feel rage like I’ve never felt before. I don’t want to be around DC at all.

What strength & what strength prog & frequency of patch change (?) On any other meds?

This was me back in May. Hysteroscopy showed thickened lining in early July, but I'd already gone cold turkey in May coz I was so sick of the flooding and cramps.

We are now in August and the hot flushes are killing me, along with awful joint pain, like my arthritis has speeded up beyond crazy. Plus i'm only just holding onto my temper. I fear I may murder someone.

I have 2 packs left, so I've started taking one every 3rd day to see what happens.

I binned them and I can’t remember. Low dosage I think, two a week. No other meds, just the mirena coil. I need to get back on the ADHD meds to be honest.