Hello :)
I have been on estrogel ( 3 pumps a day) and utrogesten (2 tabs) for 4 months now. I’m 41. I have found that the physical symptoms have eased (hot flushes, itching skin etc) but the mental symptoms (anxiety, crying at the drop of a hat, flipping from happy to angry) are if anything getting worse.
Each month I am dreading the progesterone phase as on estrogen alone I feel fabulous but the 12 days I’m adding progesterone in it all goes so very wrong.
My dr has told me to start the progesterone each cycle from day 14 of my cycle in the hope it will marry up with my natural cycle which has changed in the last year from being every 30 days and from heavy to stoppy starty light which it doesn’t seem to be doing and I’m essentially spending 3 out of 4 weeks bleeding as a result.
Coupled with that I am battling a nasty divorce and the general grind of 3 primary aged kids.
My new partner has been so supportive but I’m waking up every day crying or requiring her to walk on eggshells and that’s not fair to her or the kids and is doing untold damage to our relationship as a result.
My mum hit menopause out of the blue at 42 so I don’t think I’m too early to be going into peri but I do wonder if anyone can relate?
I feel mentally so wretched but physically so much better than I did, I have no clue what’s going on.