Anyone watching Davina: sex, mind and menopauseon c4

[Meltinthemiddle]

Really interesting and relatable.

interest watch. Especially about reduction in brain function,
And body identical oestrogen.
I m on thyroxine and wonder about taking HRT too.

@Blueemeraldagain your friend was great. It must have been so hard to go into menopause at 30. The bit with her made me cry. When Davina said us older women who've gone ahead have let her down because we were ashamed. At least we are talking about menopause and advocating for each other now.

I'm on levothyroxine after radiation treatment on my thyroid. I have also been on hrt for 3 years.

Thanks for the heads up on this. Might make my teens watch it with me. The last Davina program convinced me to try HRT despite my mum having had Breast cancer from it, as the biggest cancer risk for me is being overweight and I was hoping HRT would give me some energy back to tackle that part too!

It has helped immensely with the physical symptoms - hot flushes, aches, urinary incontinence and shrivelling down below etc and has helped my libido to come back.

Sadly that all took a little while to settle and in the meantime I split with XP due to him taking the piss out of me for it being “that time of the month again”.

I lost my shit at having to explain that at 47 I didn’t have a time of the fucking month any more, just a time of my life, and that I was taking medication that scared the shit out of me to try and keep some semblance of normality in my life,

I remember the part in the first TV program where one woman said she’d felt suicidal and it made me cry. When I told him about this he said “why?”. Just had no idea about the impact all this can have on a person. I really wish I’d got him to watch it with me and maybe he’d have had a little bit more understanding? .

It’s so crap how we feel like we have to keep this all in hushed circles because who wants to discuss vaginal atrophy, prolapse and incontinence with their partner?

Thanks-I’ve just watched it.

As someone whose mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at the age of 57 the programme is absolutely mind blowing!!
My mum was taken off hrt, age about 53 as was the thinking at that time and within 6 months was showing the signs of what was later diagnosed as Alzheimer’s. I’m absolutely devastated to think she might not have had to go through that had women’s health been taken more seriously in the 1990s.

Ive been on HRT for about a year now -thankfully I have a very enlightened GP, and I’m on it for life

Ive been on HRT for about 12 years now - I’m lucky to have sympathetic sensible GPs who have bothered to do their research. It made a massive difference right from the get go. Recently I had it tweaked - Mirena out, utrogestan instead, doubled my evorel patches and added testosterone gel; kept my ovestin. I’m a new woman - the flat feeling has gone and my libido is back. I actually, spontaneously, want sex. DH is knackered and happy.

I know I’m lucky - great GPs (unsurprisingly, women roughly my age) and I respond well to hormones.

Thank goodness women over 40 are finally allowed to be seen and heard.

I love my HRT and wish I had started taking it in my early 40s, when I started with peri symptoms. It’s a scandal that some GPs are still not giving it to their female patients.

What are you wondering about? I’m on thyroxine and HRT. I’ve been on thyroxine for 25 years, had a mirena for 24 years and added HRT patches a year ago

@AngelinaFibres
thats good to know! Was your thyroxine dose changed with hrt?
After a thyroidectomy I had to obv go on thyroxine and I’m not a fan.
So I was interested in the bioidentical hrt.

@JudgeRindersMinder
whether it affected the thyroxine dose. It’s taken years to get somewhat an alright balance and id be loathe to change it.
A consultant I saw was only interested in figures and not my symptoms.

And whether the doc would try to fob me off with adjusting my thyroxine dose instead of giving the hrt.

No not at all, the only time I’ve had it changed was in pregnancy 20 years ago, then it was reduced back to my previous dosage after pregnancy. I get tested every 18 months.
I do still have my thyroid, it’s just lazy 😂

Interestingly my gp has almost been more interested in symptoms more than numbers! She appreciates that the numbers are just a starting point and whilst a dosage of x on a person with y numbers is right for them, one size doesn’t fit all

A consultant I saw was only interested in figures and not my symptoms

Sounds about right for thyroid doctors unfortunately. Thyroxine is shit. Another (mainly) womens’ health issue that is woefully under diagnosed, undertreated and poorly understood.

You’ll have to tell us all where you live Judge so that we can all sign up for your enlightened and helpful GP!

My dose has been adjusted upwards over the last 3 years. I'm on 125 micrograms of thyroxine every day at the moment . My doctor is very good. I know when my thyroid level is dropping, I feel like someone has taken my batteries out, and they test my blood and adjust the dose. The hrt made me feel better very quickly. There was never a time when I felt worse.

Bookmarking to watch with hubby

An enlightened doctor!

it makes sense to me that bodies differ in their requirements so symptoms are important

Thank you @AngelinaFibres @JudgeRindersMinder

I feel better informed now to approach my GP and know what’s possible.

Absolutely not-she’s mine and I’m keeping her! 😂
Did I mention we can get same day appointments too?😂

I'm on kliovance as I still have a womb.

Not anymore. It's going to be peri and HRT instead.

I'm glad my autoimmune disease got diagnosed before the peri stuff hit the TV. Otherwise I'd be taking hormones and wondering why I was still in pain and tired all the time.

I'm on kliovance as I still have a womb.
Is that bio identical too?

It’s just feels so hit and miss- women’s symptoms just dismissed due to age.

My problems are hot flushes and vaginal dryness. Im nearly 49 Nothing wrong with my sex drive but PIV is too painful. Like razor blades. Cant do it at all. Tried Vagisan Fucking useless and im not prepared to throw good money after bad. What i need is topical estrogen cream.

@mmmmmmghturep that’s awful :( in one of Davinas earlier shows, she covered this with a yoga teacher ( i recall) re the topical cream and I think GP reluctance to offer it.