Menopause advise/Help!

[Tadpolesandfroglets]

What natural treatments have worked for you? What is helping you through the perimenopause/menopause? I’m trying to manage symptoms but would like to hear what’s worked for others.

Anyone?

One thing I have noticed is that if I drink red wine I get hot flushes. I’ve cut out red wine. No hot flushes. I do think some things aggravate the symptoms. Clonidine stopped my hot flushes too but I stopped taking it when I realised red wine was the issue .

Yes. Have noticed certain things aggravate, I’ve stopped alcohol completely. Just wondered if anyone had success with Certain vitamins or over the counter remedies or diets?

In all honesty you would waste years trying stuff and none of it would help. If it did, we'd all use it!
Vitamins don't help menopause. Cutting out refined carbs, booze and caffeine might help with flushes and weight gain (fatter women suffer more.) Also there is some evidence that exercise can help flushes.

If you are suffering, is there a reason why you would not consider HRT>?

I’m not massively suffering. Not enough to consider HRT. Sleep is disrupted a bit and anxiety is bad a week before my period. I’m definitely peri menopausal and just wondering if anyone found something that they thought definitely helped to ease things. I only know three people on HRT and none of them got on with it very well.

I have a wool duvet which has helped my night sweats enormously. I tried HRT for a bit but going back to regular periods put me off sufficiently to stop taking it. I am not having major issues with menopause otherwise I would continue, the main one had been sleep disruption.

That’s interesting @WoollyFoolly I’ve never heard of a wool duvet. Will look into that!

I found Asda’s ‘Menopause Support’ helped me somewhat. Like you very mild symptoms some insomnia, bit warm at night and quite bad anxiety. Made my pee a bright yellow (B vitamins I think) but I found they helped me.

The best thing then @Tadpolesandfroglets is a very healthy lifestyle.

As much fruit and veg as possible, ditch sugar, exercise daily, do yoga, relax, etc etc.

I did all of that though and still went for hrt, been on it for 12 years . Suits me very well.

To help night sweats do some exercise that really gets you sweaty during the day.

Acupuncture.

I'm not there yet but this is what my medic friend told me.

Okay, sounds like good advice!

Totally anecdotal but I've found Menopace Plus vitamins helpful, the ones with sage and soya. I swear my perimenopausal overheating improved within two weeks of starting to take them. As I say it's anecdotal and I'm a sample of one, but might be worth a try. I haven't felt the need to take HRT.

@DramaAlpaca that’s very helpful and totally what I wanted. Good to know what works for others.