Do the emotional symptoms improve with time?

[galliton]

Just wanted to ask if the difficult emotional symptoms of perimenopause do pass or if they continue once menopause is reached and beyond? I have had conflicting information regarding this but it might help decide if HRT is more beneficial if this really is a very long term thing.

DM didn’t use HRT. She was a nightmare for the best part of 20 years. My siblings & my relationship with her has changed forever. We will never be as close as we once were & I now only see her every 3-4 months, it used to be once or twice a week and I used to tell her everything.

I was horribly emotionally unstable before HRT. I am definitely more myself with it. HRT is worth it for preventing the risk of osteoporosis alone imo.

Wow. Really sorry to hear this. How long after menopause did the symptoms last?

She went through menopause mid 40’s and she only became not so emotionally reactive around her mid 60’s.
She had always been so capable and strong (divorced, raised us alone) and then suddenly she was really just so emotionally unstable and it went on for years. Everything was always such a drama/catastrophe and there were moods, tantrums, depression, tears and inability to cope etc over the slightest thing. Of course at the time we didn’t really understand. It’s only after getting to the ages of needing HRT ourselves that we have really understood why she was like this. No clue why she didn’t have HRT, she’s muttered since about prescription costs but she was a low earner and on benefits, maybe they didn’t have help with prescription costs then though?
Having suffered such horrendous swings in my emotional state, starting in my very early 40’s, it was a relief to start HRT at 45. It took hardly any time at all to feel ‘normal’ again.

I have recently started HRT because my emotions were just out of control, even to the point that my colleagues asked if I was okay because I wasn't my usual self. I've had the patches for a month and I feel so much better. Less anxious, less irritable and just more myself again. I know that everyone is different and will have a different experience but I would suggest speaking to a GP who knows about women's health and particularly the menopause.