Ive just finished reading Louise Newsons book on perimenopause and kept breaking down in tears becayse I related to everything. Highly recommend it if anyone suspects peri and wants further clarification. My symptoms are bad today but of course I knew that was coming because my period is due. In fact I think my symptoms are now more reliable at tracking my periods now then my actual period tracker. They’re all over the place atm but you bet, as soon as I feel tit, it all starts. I have quite seriously changed over night since spring. Not just mentally, but physically. I look 10 years older. My life has completely turned upside down. At times I thought I was going mad or schizophrenic or dying!!! I suspected hormones right away because I’d only felt like this briefly after having a baby, but because I was young and still having periods I was open to the professionals suggestions that it was my mental health/stress/heart conditions UNTIL I started to get dry eyes, leaky nips and the hot flushes. Those are massive red flags for me. Then I realised my periods were weird and things were happening in a hormonal pattern. It’s so obvious it’s my hormones but I’ve now suffered 6 months because of them refusing to respect me. 6 months of missing my children growing up, work, special events, flipping out over the silliest of things, feeling broken and ugly, sobbing in my car too scared to drive because I couldn’t concentrate. If only they’d trusted the fact I knew my body better then they did. That’s what this all boils down to. They just assumed I was a silly little woman, flapping, pill chasing, a hypochondriac.
I won’t stop now until they give me HRT. I’m on the war path now. I can’t string a sentence together most days but I’m hoping I can channel all this menopausal rage into something productive.
On the plus side, I’m actually thrilled. I was planning on getting sterilised soon but nature has decided to help me out. Well… I hope… knowing my luck this will drag on until I’m mid 40s!
I won’t stop now until they give me HRT. I’m on the war path now. I can’t string a sentence together most days but I’m hoping I can channel all this menopausal rage into something productive.
On the plus side, I’m actually thrilled. I was planning on getting sterilised soon but nature has decided to help me out. Well… I hope… knowing my luck this will drag on until I’m mid 40s!