What are your thoughts/experiences peri, during and or post-menopausal? What do you wish you'd known?
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francesca
Feb 28, 2021
Did I miss much? Oh how I laughed when I read that!
Frankly I thought I had been rather lucky on this one.....until a couple of years ago, a few incidents into the whole thing with my mother each time I saw her, asking helpfully "How is the menopause darling? I don't think you realise how angry you are, how aggressive you are, how anxious you are" to be read by myself that I had become a total pain in the backside to all around me and angels would fear to tread along side in fear of getting it wrong....And it was true.
My sleep was appalling, I felt as through I was in a deep haze of zombie state, little if any memory of anything - literally. Terrible anxiety - permanently, which set off the hot flushes and lack of sleep, and the angry cycle would start all over again and again.....
I decided to take the alternative, natural route and as I didn't want to take HRT, I didn't find doctors both NHS or private particularly helpful as the approach was one size fits all and whilst things are calmer and better now, it has taken a long, long time to get to this place with natural supplements, exercise and lots of Yoga and Qigong ( marvellous mind, body, spirit practice) I know now what the trigger points are and stress is a biggie, it has knocked my self confidence and the appalling lack of sleep made life utter hell. A fog of the last number of years which has slowly started to clear, but its taken its toll.
Not quite post m-p of West Sussex😊
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Miranda & Louise
Feb 28, 2021
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Great post, dearest friend - honest, helpful, funny and real. Good for us all to know that there are many zombies out there in the fog. And the fog will clear. And the zombie-ness will recede... xx
Did I miss much? Oh how I laughed when I read that!
Frankly I thought I had been rather lucky on this one.....until a couple of years ago, a few incidents into the whole thing with my mother each time I saw her, asking helpfully "How is the menopause darling? I don't think you realise how angry you are, how aggressive you are, how anxious you are" to be read by myself that I had become a total pain in the backside to all around me and angels would fear to tread along side in fear of getting it wrong....And it was true.
My sleep was appalling, I felt as through I was in a deep haze of zombie state, little if any memory of anything - literally. Terrible anxiety - permanently, which set off the hot flushes and lack of sleep, and the angry cycle would start all over again and again.....
I decided to take the alternative, natural route and as I didn't want to take HRT, I didn't find doctors both NHS or private particularly helpful as the approach was one size fits all and whilst things are calmer and better now, it has taken a long, long time to get to this place with natural supplements, exercise and lots of Yoga and Qigong ( marvellous mind, body, spirit practice) I know now what the trigger points are and stress is a biggie, it has knocked my self confidence and the appalling lack of sleep made life utter hell. A fog of the last number of years which has slowly started to clear, but its taken its toll.
Not quite post m-p of West Sussex😊