I’m 100% better, my husband will vouch for that as well. My main problem was vaginal atrophy, it was so bad it was painful just to sit down. I started with Vagifem tablets which are inserted vaginally, but these don’t help with hot flushes, joint pain, anxiety etc, so I have an estrogen patch stuck to my derrière 😬, and medroxyprogesterone because I have a uterus and this protects it from the effects of the estrogen (it’s called hyperplasia). I didn’t get on with Utrogestan, it certainly wasn’t identical to my body, I couldn’t stop crying and was a nervous wreck.
I also take Tostran testosterone, absolutely bloody marvellous!!! My energy and libido has returned. One of my G.Ps suggested a romantic meal for my libido, chuffing idiot,after blood tests it turned out that I was 90% deficient, I literally had no life, no energy, absolutely bloody awful. My libido has now gone through the roof, my husband who’s 61 can’t keep up with me 🤣. I said to him “be careful what you wish for”, he moaned at my lack of interest in sex. Some nights I sleep in the spare bed to give him a rest 🥴
So many marriages break down at this time in life. One woman admitted to me that her divorce was due to her menopause symptoms and deeply regrets not getting help, her ex has now moved on after being rejected by her as she instigated the divorce, it’s really sad. It breaks her heart to see him with another woman.
Statistically there’s a 30-50% increase in the possibility of breast cancer for moderate drinking, nearly everyone around me drinks alcohol 🤷♀️. I was surprised at this statistic, I quite possibly consume my weekly recommended allowance for a woman in a year. I feel so much better for not drinking regularly for the last 15 years, I’m also told I don’t look my age, I’ve never smoked either. The risks of HRT and breast cancer are so small when you compare it to alcohol, many people aren’t aware of this, my husband was really shocked at the connection, to be honest I wasn’t aware of this until recently.