After years of suffering from anxiety I noticed it was building up again and getting worse. My husband has always felt that my anxiety became worse following having my first merina coil fitted 10 years ago. A couple of good friends said how their anxiety had just gone following hrt so, having watched the mariella fostrop programme on tv and having had enough of my night time sweats, I took myself off to the dr who put me on hrt evorel conti patches. All started off ok, sweats stopped almost immediately. I diarised everything and gradually noticed I was getting really extreme anxiety - being violently woken at 5 am as though having electricity jolted through my body, and such bad anxiety, palpitations , joint pains and muscle aches. I went to see a hormone specialist who did a blood test, said everything was ok and changed my hrt to a tablet and progesterone gel.... well, my god, I have never felt the veins in my inner thighs throbbing so much at night, I was in agony. The change in tablet had messed my head up a bit too and after coping with this for 2 days I decided enough was enough and gave myself a day then went back to the patches- but oh, what a nightmare that was! The next morning, I couldn’t even move my eyes in their sockets as I felt I was falling out of bed. If I moved my head I had horrific room spin and just wanted to violently be sick.,The anxiety had changed to major depression and I felt there was only one way out of this and it wasn’t good. Luckily
my husband saw what was happening and got me an emergency Gp app who recommended coming off everything.... needless to say, I did and I had a pretty awful few days coping with that! I have since had another bout of major anxiety and depression and have decided to get the coil removed and start having counselling. I’ve been through a hard couple of years with loosing both my parents, and my aunty and uncle. I am now on a couple of tablets from my dr agomelatine and buscpirone and am taking life very slowly and carefully. I have always been into yoga and keep practising that as well as walking and cuddling my doggies. Has anyone any similar experiences and kind words of advice??