Peri-menopausal pustules. Help!

[Frizzbonce]

I'm 44 and pretty sure I'm in in the perimenopausal stage because my hormones are all over the place. And the worst bit about this is I'm getting spots around my jaw area. It's awful - what with encroaching wrinkles AND spots I feel like a teenage granny. Does anyone have any advice?

Sorry, no advice but much sympathy.

I always had really good skin (every thing else not so good but skin good) and I started premature meno when I was 42. Was confirmed by the GP when I was 43 and I have never had so many spots! Suppose it is like puberty with all the hormones flying around. The spots weren't lovely heady ones but more like under the skin, lurking.

Happily, since starting HRT they have disappeared but I will need to come off when I am 50. So, 50 and spotty is my destiny.

Hope you get some advice and they go away sharpish.

This might be totally wrong but I was getting dreadful boils around the time of my period, i've also been trying to have a baby for over 2 years done IVF etc. Anyway I googled the boils as they were driving me mad, and worked out that they were probably due to a hormone imbalance (which makes sense with the infertility).
One of the vitamins suggested was Maca, i've been using it for a month and this month I had no boils and the rest of my cruddy skin is noticeably better.
It my be a coincidence but might not.

Electric but maybe when you come off the HRT your hormones may have settled down. Here's hoping.

Karbea I'm off to research Maca. Thanks!