Menopause

[Woodburnerandblanket]

51 and 4 weeks into HRT (2.5mg gel and I vagi all progesterone) Tough peri since aged 47 but this last few months has been hard! Still having severe mood swings/rage, anxiety, heart palpitations. Please tell me it will soon get better!

Bumping this for you. I'm just starting HRT (two days in) but hoping the answer is yes! If you don't have any improvement, it may be that a different type of HRT works better for you - don't give up.

No HRT here but a low daily dose of fluoxetine (Prozac) has stopped the anxiety (and subsequent rage) from getting out of control. I still feel low level anxiety throughout the day but something (the medication?) seems to block it from spiralling out of control.

Thanks for the replies. When I went through peri I took 10mg ciprelax for the anxiety. It worked well and after two years I stopped. Main reason was the restless legs! I'm hoping HRT will take the edge off this time as I must be nearly through by now. No periods for two years.