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Peri menopause

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Pleasehel · 30/04/2023 22:07

I am struggling with severe depression and anxiety, I can’t stop crying, I just can’t seem to pull myself together, I have been bleeding for 4 weeks constantly recently started Prozac but it’s making me feel worse. I just want to feel normal again. Please help.

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lyingonthebeach · 01/05/2023 11:08

@Pleasehel I am also perimenopausal and feel down, brainfogged and permanently out of sorts and despite HRT, haven't really felt much improvement. I keep thinking 'is this my life now?' I really feel for you but you are most certainly not alone. Can you speak to your Dr or another professional?
I send hugs and good wishes. xx

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Pleasehel · 01/05/2023 11:53

Thank you for your reply and I’m so sorry you are going through this too, it is the most dreadful feeling, I got up today and said to myself I’m going to try and get on with my day, but here I am sitting on the sofa in tears yet again, scrolling the internet constantly looking for something to help. I just want to get back to the old me I’m not living I’m just a mess. Xxxxx

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madeahugemistakeandamsad · 01/05/2023 13:37

Oh you're me! I've been bleeding for two weeks and this weekend have had a full on nervous breakdown over our new kitten. Did your gp mention hrt? Consensus seems to be we need that not anti depressants.

Possibilitiesxyz · 01/05/2023 13:40

Pleasehel · 30/04/2023 22:07

I am struggling with severe depression and anxiety, I can’t stop crying, I just can’t seem to pull myself together, I have been bleeding for 4 weeks constantly recently started Prozac but it’s making me feel worse. I just want to feel normal again. Please help.

Please please please go and talk to someone about HRT. I was feeling the pressure (nothing as bad as you mentioned though) and was prescribed HRT last summer. It felt like a lifting of all the heaviness I'd been feeling my sleep got better my aching joints got better and my periods became regular as clockwork.

I appreciate it doesn't work for everyone but it really is worth the pain of trying to get a gp appointment. I was seen by an HRT specialist prescribing nurse,

Lots of luck

Possibilitiesxyz · 01/05/2023 13:41

lyingonthebeach · 01/05/2023 11:08

@Pleasehel I am also perimenopausal and feel down, brainfogged and permanently out of sorts and despite HRT, haven't really felt much improvement. I keep thinking 'is this my life now?' I really feel for you but you are most certainly not alone. Can you speak to your Dr or another professional?
I send hugs and good wishes. xx

Has your dose been adjusted? I started on 1mg but went up to 2mg. A friend of mine started on patches but changed to tablets with testosterone. Sometimes the first pass at prescribing is only that

Aquamarine1029 · 01/05/2023 13:41

I strongly recommend you go to a private peri-menopause/menopause clinic as soon as you can. I went through exactly what you are, the absolutely crippling anxiety, bleeding, and HRT took it all away. AD's like prozac are not recommended to treat peri-menopausal issues because, like you have found, they often make your symptoms much worse.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. It's so awful.

lyingonthebeach · 01/05/2023 13:51

@Possibilitiesxyz thank you. I have an HRT review next week and am hoping for some adjustment. Fingers crossed, eh?

And fingers crossed for you @Pleaseheland everyone else under this cloud. Hugs.

DevonHills23 · 11/07/2023 12:23

am in the same boat i think....they found endometriosis too so am now waiting for more tests

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