Peri is making me needy

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Has anyone else start to feel very needy? I feel unloved, uncared for, fat and ugly. Doubting if DP still loves me etc. Is this a normal symptom. ?

Absolutely it is. Just feeling a general sense of anxiety about everything and perhaps dissatisfaction with yourself. I got very uncomfortable in my own skin. I felt needy but actually there was nothing my lovely DH could do or say to reassure me because I wasn’t actually needy, I was perimenopausal.
Now I’m just full of HRT. I cannot imagine how pre-HRT me would have handled 2020!

I am seriously considering HRT. I can't cope with being like this for possibly years.

I became needy until the happy patches were slapped on, not quite fully there but definitely more on the "you're lucky to have me" side of the Venn diagram again much to DH's relief.

Still a bit shook up from what happened a few months back but it seems depleted hormones were the major contributor to the situation.

Peri is the absolute shit, op, and there is no reason to suffer. Get HRT, it's amazing.

I have rang the doctors today. I have to wait for a phone appointment which they said will be end of the week. I can't cope with it much longer. I feel totally out of control of my own body 😢