Supplements and vitamins to help me along

[ActingTheMaggot]

I am 53. About 4 years ago I had terrible perimenopausal symptoms including PMS for most of the month, flooding and anxiety. I ended up dropping loads of money on a private GP who put me on estrogen gel and progesterone tablets. These made me feel worse, especially the progesterone which made me so down. It was awful. I swapped the prog for a Mirena coil, and at the same time lapsed on the gel, and ended up feeling fantastic, so I ditched the gel.

So, I have had a Mirena coil for 3.5 years and after a short while my cycle stopped and I have felt amazing. Loads of energy and just felt fabulous.

Now, over the past month, I have felt tired and the anxiety is creeping in. I am overwhelmed with the things I have to do and feel tired. I don't take any vitamins, or supplements as I have a good diet filled with healthy stuff.

Maybe this is not enough. Maybe at 53, I need to add in extra vitamins and supplements but I don't know what. For my own reasons, I don't want to take HRT. I did see a naturopath a while ago but their recommendations were too extreme and unmanageable.

Magnesium. This dr who specialises in menopause has loads of info vids on TT but here’s a very tiny YouTube one. Thanks to her I’m getting the best sleep in years and my anxiety has reduced.

I take these. A bit pricey but other brands or types of magnesium don’t give me the same sleep.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B37YMQVK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Vitamins and supplements don't usually work for menopause. Why are you discounting using the gel again? Your estrogen levels will have fallen a lot since you tried before.

I'm in my early 40s and think there's a few peri menopause signs starting to appear. Interrupted sleep, tiredness, anxiety, achey muscles and joints.

I started taking magnesium a few months ago and have definitely seen an improvement in my sleep, energy and muscles/joints.

Another advocate for magnesium - I’m definitely sleeping better.

Do you need to take the magnesium at bedtime to get the best effect?

I am the other way. The older I got the more I didn’t sleep. I have been taken cherry supplements and am having to take the dose down as they were making me too sleep. Wish I had heard about these before. Now if only I could sort out the aching limbs I would feel much better

My aching joints have gone since going on a good quality omega 3. They were better on cod liver oil, but changing to omega 3 has taken it away.

I have Epsom salt baths and the L-Threonate posted above for sleep, definitely makes a difference.
‘And I’ve noticed I’m not tired since swapping vitamin D for D3 and K2.

I take it an hour before bed.