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Perimenopause at 44 and starting treatment the same month

Started 26 July 2024 · 14 replies · 178 hearts · read 2.1k times

LlianCarmarthen, UK · 26 July 2024
2 years ago

Perimenopause at 44 and starting treatment the same month Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Bringing this here rather than to the general circle because the specifics change the answer.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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CoralieMarseille, FR
#1

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#2

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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WellsChester, UK
#3

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#5

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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BirdieMargate, UK
#6

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#7

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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HannahSheffield, UK
#8

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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FenellaCirencester, UK
#9

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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MarnieAyr, UK
#10

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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HollyBath, UK
#11

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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HalCambridge, UK
#12

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#13

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#14

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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