Talk to me about the rage....

[JazzyAmbs]

I'm so angry. I'm on the ceiling half the time for things that are annoying yes but shouldn't make me this angry. What makes it stop? I am on HRT already. Does it make no difference? Does it make it worse? What helps??

I actually stopped HRT because of The Rage and am much better for it (although the withdrawal sweata were something else).

The progesterone sent me mad.

Antidepressants takes the edge off for me

Interesting. Initially it really helped but not now and I haven only been on a few months. Did you get any relief at all to begin with?

I'm on long-term antidepressants but was still simmering with anger and bursting with irritation. HRT combined patch fixed it. I still get angry & irritated, but mainly when it's appropriate!

I'm on Evorel patches and it took a good 6 months to find the right dose. I started at 50, now on 100. It's definitely helped. Not a miracle but I'm not a raging mad woman anymore.

HRT helped me, but I got depressed on the progesterone days. Mirena seemed to smooth it all out. Prior to HRT I sweat there was a couple of times I could have genuinely killed DH, and he’d done nothing.

The rage is real. During my menopause some woman cut me off in traffic and i CHASED her. I actually followed her into a parking lot and chased her car beeping my horn. She thought I was insane and I could tell she was frightened. I had to call my DH, who is in LE and tell him if he heard on the radio that a loon is chasing someone and they are afraid for their life, that it was I. I then pulled over in another parking lot and burst into tears. My husband and a friend came and drove me home. I got on meds right after that. I scared myself.

Oh dear. Can imagine me being like that today. When you say meds do you mean HRT or something else?