Hi all,
I posted not too long ago because I’m 41 and had recently been started on HRT after lots of mood / neurological symptoms that I felt were possibly linked due to early menopause running in my family.
initially I felt everything was worse due to the progesterone. Someone suggested taking it vaginally, and this did help.
however, the last 6 weeks or so I feel like im having a fairly severe depressive episode I just cannot seem to pull myself out of. My life isn’t great at the moment and I am dealing with a lot of quite tricky things with my children so I know that I’m under stress. But I feel so angry, upset, frustrated and spend most days crying or trying to keep away from everyone, I can honestly say I’ve never felt this down before and I’ve had challenges before now. i am currently on day 11 of my cycle and so not even taking the progesterone at the moment and yet everything feels completely awful. I am obviously progesterone intolerant but I’m not even on it right now. So I don’t think this can fully be blamed for my symptoms.
i am on sequential hrt so I have been given Evorel 50 as a patch and micronised progesterone 200mcgs days 15-26.
I have booked a hrt review but can only speak to the pharmacist as they said it didn’t need a doctor.
should I ask for an increase or just knock this on the head and stop? I felt like crap before and I feel like crap now and I’m so sad to think that no matter what I do, this is my life now 😢
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated