Just so you know ladies.....

[Laundrytrousers]

according to the consultant I saw last week:

low mood, tiredness and irritability is nothing to do with hormones or peri menopause or HRT (despite the fact I was prescribed low dose citilopram for PMDS)

Utrogestan doesn't cause issues (i am likely progesterone intolerant and couldn't take the pill in earlier years). And the suggestion is that I take it daily now (my periods/bleeds are absolutely regular and haven't changed).

Increase in weight, digestion issues and acid reflux must be my diet, not peri (diet hasn't changed, except that i am having to restrict more foods not to feel unwell)

Buuut if I do stop HRT now "all my symptoms will be worse".

So options are live with it, increase SSRI and acknowledge "not everything is menopause related".

I guess I just have to live with feeling rubbish. I don't even feel very cross about this, just resigned.

My consultant said despite what it seems like in the media only 10-15% of menopausal women are on hrt....

I tried herbal medication for the menopause and it worked for about 6 months then either it stopped working or my symptoms got worse. Anyway I saw my gp who is normally pretty good but his suggestion was , it's a natural process so let nature take its cause. I said " yes I tried that and natures not doing so well now "I then went onto rather flippantly say " and there speaks a man " his reply was " ah yes but a man who had a mother" I just stared at him in amazement. I mean wtaf. I had no plan to be fobbed off so I was direct and just said " I'd like to try HRT please " it was definitely worth persevering.

I went in for a hysteroscopy to remove some uterine polyps. Third hysteroscopy, first time under a general. Finally action being taken after 9 months of me reporting heavy, debilitating bleeding. The young (female) dr who came to talk to me after the procedure told me they 'couldn't get in' to my uterus. I asked how the nurse had managed twice before, and she said I was mistaken. When I asked what they had done to resolve the bleeding she said that bleeding couldn't be that bad, and I should just use a thicker pad. She also told me, helpfully, to ring my GP and make an appointment next time it happens because they have lots of on the day availability.

DH eventually requested that the male consultant came to see us. He did come to see us, but spoke over my head to DH. Turns out they had removed the polyps but not put in the Mirena I'd been told they would because 'it would only fall out'. Managed to say something different from the junior dr but not actually tell me anything definitive or helpful.

I've just booked a BUPA menopause appointment through my health insurance. Hopefully more help will be available through them.

Sorry, I couldn't get past "ladies"..... this is 2024, not 1954!

I'm overweight, so everything is put down to that. I could be run over by a bus and have leg broken & it woukd be due to being overweight.

i cannot face going to the GP re menopause.

@BeaRF75

there was a gif on here the other day that would be perfect just now.

you clearly missed the point if her use of 'ladies'

but never mind.

What is wrong with writing ladies?

I’m very progesterone intolerant.. I see a private consultant who prescribed cyclogest pessaries , they are only licencesed for fertility treatment but I can just about cope with them for 12 days , I do sleep better for those 12 days but also feel permanently annoyed at the same time .. 😫