Life after Peri

[HappyDaysAreAhead]

What are your experiences after perimenopause?

Do you feel better? Like your old self?

Is it that you feel better as the rollercoaster of hormones has stopped?

You mean menopause? It's a fallacy that the hormone roller coaster stops. If you are suffering and are able to take it, HRT should help.

Divorce was the thing that made me feel like my old self.

Yes I felt better once my periods stopped.

Not necessarily.

Some women, when estrogen falls for good, feel terrible. Not joking.
Some feel fine.

I know of women on HRT for almost 20 years because every time they try to stop (in their 70s) the night sweats, low mood etc are still there.
It's not that HRT is addictive, it's that some women (maybe 15%) don't do well without estrogen. And many other women who don't use HRT have symptoms they never link to menopause - bladder issues, pelvic prolapse, anxiety, depression- and try to medicate all of these with other drugs, often not very successfully.

You also need to be aware of bone loss which can be 5% a year for 5 years after your last period and then it slows down, but you will lose bone forever so you need to be aware of this and do what you can to prevent osteoporosis.

I feel better now my periods have stopped but still have symptoms (brain fog, aches and hot flushes). I’m going back on hrt!

Not everyone had 'peri' either in the sense of symptoms.

Some women only have symptoms after their last period (that was how it worked for me.)

I feel really like my old self - my very much younger self - and I begrudge the last 40 years

it’s very individual

Thanks all.

I hear and read all about perimenopause symptoms but rarely does anyone say how they feel once their periods have stopped.

I guess time will tell!

I'm attempting to switch my thought process on all of this and look forward to not having periods.