I've been in a medically induced menopause through GnRH medication for 10 years, since I was 44. This is because I have endometriosis and scar tissue on my cervix from it that couldn't be removed surgically without doing a hysterectomy, plus my surgeon thinks there is some microscopic endo that he couldn't remove. The long-term treatment is off-label (and private) but seems to work- there was improvement after my third surgery but further improvement after starting the drugs. I have no bleeding and pain is much reduced. I'm not taking HRT because the treatment works better without it - I don't want to add oestrogen back in to feed the endometriosis. I just have an oestrogen vaginal cream to help with dryness at as low a dose as I can manage.
All this is just background really - I've read some threads about menopause and irritability and have realised that's me! Everything makes me grumpy and it's been going on for ages... I feel like it's crept in insidiously. It's not like the 'old' me, who was quite a nice person... I'd like her back! Just wondering if there's anything I can try, given that I can't do HRT. In a few years when I'm hopefully fully menopausal I'll come off the meds - I've no idea whether the natural version will be better or worse than the current one! To complicate matters I'm on a lot of other meds, mostly strong pain meds for mobility issues, but I'm on anti-depressants too... I guess I have reasons to be irritable anyway so it might be a bit of both.
Thanks for any help.