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I’ve been ill for more than thirty years now. I have always had huge problems with my hormones and my periods, always dreading that time of the month. I’ve been diagnosed with severe PMS but sometimes wondered if it wasn’t PMDD.
For the better part of my life I’ve been on some kind of birth control, additional progesterone therapy and finally I had a Mirena IUD for years. All of it helped, at least some or at first. As with everything I take, prescriptive or non prescriptive, it works for a while and then it seems to do me more harm than good. Quite often without me realizing this, ending up with sometimes taking stuff for months or years, only to notice after quitting what a stress it put on my system.
As I told in my introduction topic Link (not that I expect you to read it all, ‘cause it is embarrassing long) I recently changed anti-seizure meds and that messed up my system a lot. They say: never change a winning horse, but I wasn’t exactly in a winning situation.
So it is hard to figure out what is going on. But at least part of it (not sure how big a part) feels hormonal. I’ve been on HRT for a couple of months but recently quit the hormones, cause the treatment didn’t feel right to my body. But even to me that sounds subjective and I have no idea how to sell this to my gynaecologist. Over the years I’ve learned to trust my own instincts, but not being able to proof things makes me, at the same time, very much doubting my instincts.
Hence several questions:
1) Has any of you experienced a flare up of symptoms in peri-menopause? If so, did it subside once being officially menopausal.
2)How did you deal with it, what was helpful or what aggravated symptoms?
3)What about HRT, do any of you have experience with it? What are the pro’s and con’s if any?
Hope someone has some helpful comments.
All the best to you all,
Garf
For the better part of my life I’ve been on some kind of birth control, additional progesterone therapy and finally I had a Mirena IUD for years. All of it helped, at least some or at first. As with everything I take, prescriptive or non prescriptive, it works for a while and then it seems to do me more harm than good. Quite often without me realizing this, ending up with sometimes taking stuff for months or years, only to notice after quitting what a stress it put on my system.
As I told in my introduction topic Link (not that I expect you to read it all, ‘cause it is embarrassing long) I recently changed anti-seizure meds and that messed up my system a lot. They say: never change a winning horse, but I wasn’t exactly in a winning situation.
So it is hard to figure out what is going on. But at least part of it (not sure how big a part) feels hormonal. I’ve been on HRT for a couple of months but recently quit the hormones, cause the treatment didn’t feel right to my body. But even to me that sounds subjective and I have no idea how to sell this to my gynaecologist. Over the years I’ve learned to trust my own instincts, but not being able to proof things makes me, at the same time, very much doubting my instincts.
Hence several questions:
1) Has any of you experienced a flare up of symptoms in peri-menopause? If so, did it subside once being officially menopausal.
2)How did you deal with it, what was helpful or what aggravated symptoms?
3)What about HRT, do any of you have experience with it? What are the pro’s and con’s if any?
Hope someone has some helpful comments.
All the best to you all,
Garf