I am almost 42. I've been struggling with severe anxiety and sleep issues (waking very early), never feeling relaxed or tired. Just aggitsted and wired /restless. Derealization, panic attacks etc.
This started over a year ago when I stopped breastfeeding my second child.
The feeling never goes away, I'm always in my own head too, but my mood gets way worse before my period. Seriously dark and the lowest of thoughts.
Hormone tests show lower progesterone
, high estrogen.
After trying mirtazapine for 9 months which made me very unwell, I saw a private menopause doctor who has prescribed bio identical hrt for perimenopause.
It's one spray of estrogen per day and then progesterone pessaries mid cycle for 12 nights.
Wondering if anyone else has used hrt for hormone disruptions after a baby /breastfeeding /peri?
I'm only a few days in and feel even more aggitsted and restless which brings my mood down. Is this normal?