Perimenopause

[Anonymous]

Please post your best tips, doctors, anything to help with this maddening condition!

[Anonymous]

Please can someone ask Jeff to install a separate Menopause forum? It's half of a woman's life. Thank you

[Anonymous]

I totally be up for a separate perimenopause/menopause forum.

I am late 40s and in perimenopause with a Mirena IUD. Fortunately not experiencing too many symptoms and really working on the healthiest lifestyle I can. Absolutely no alcohol, lots of strength training and regular exercise, good diet and some supplements, healthy sleep habits, etc.

Biggest complaint is lubrication. No pain from sex yet and no problem getting aroused but I miss the physical reaction of what used to happen naturally. I just ordered the vaginal inserts from hellobonafide and now my instagram is full of all kinds of balms and things I might try.

I’m interested in hormonal therapy closer to menopause.

[Anonymous]

My gyn just prescribed me birth control pills to help with my symptoms. I’m 45, never taken them before.

[Anonymous]

It's been horrific for me. I have suffered for years with hot flashes and night sweats and my pcp and my gyn ignored it and never even mentioned hrt. After getting frustrated with not being able to get in to see my pcp (the wait for annual physical appts was 6 months and all urgent/sick visits meant seeing the NP who messed something up for me), I started looking into concierge doctors and found Ms. Medicine. Eileen West in FFX has a lot of knowledge about menopause, and once she put me on estradiol and progesterone I've been fine. Hot flashes and night sweats are gone, and I'm sleeping through the night. I hadn't known that my insomnia was the peri/menopause, but it was. HRT fixed it pretty much immediately. I thought I would never sleep through the night again, and now I do.

I'd been suffering since my hot flashes started in 2019. I was officially menopausal, one year period free, September of 2023. Got my hrt a couple of months ago, and feel so much better. Wish I'd had this treatment years ago.

So many problems that could have been avoided. My psychiatrist actually put me on klonopin for my insomnia, and that was awful and coming off of it was months and months of nightmarish withdrawal. I also got an awful skin yeast infection in my groin area because I couldn't keep it dry at all with all of the constant sweating. Those are almost impossible to get rid of completely and the itching is awful. I wish someone had just given me the HRT years ago.

I work at a med school and heard one of the obgyn faculty telling a student about black cohosh for peri symptoms, and I tried it, but it did nothing. YMMV on that.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I totally be up for a separate perimenopause/menopause forum.

I am late 40s and in perimenopause with a Mirena IUD. Fortunately not experiencing too many symptoms and really working on the healthiest lifestyle I can. Absolutely no alcohol, lots of strength training and regular exercise, good diet and some supplements, healthy sleep habits, etc.

Biggest complaint is lubrication. No pain from sex yet and no problem getting aroused but I miss the physical reaction of what used to happen naturally. I just ordered the vaginal inserts from hellobonafide and now my instagram is full of all kinds of balms and things I might try.

I’m interested in hormonal therapy closer to menopause.

Just talk to your doctor now. They have many things you can try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I totally be up for a separate perimenopause/menopause forum.

I am late 40s and in perimenopause with a Mirena IUD. Fortunately not experiencing too many symptoms and really working on the healthiest lifestyle I can. Absolutely no alcohol, lots of strength training and regular exercise, good diet and some supplements, healthy sleep habits, etc.

Biggest complaint is lubrication. No pain from sex yet and no problem getting aroused but I miss the physical reaction of what used to happen naturally. I just ordered the vaginal inserts from hellobonafide and now my instagram is full of all kinds of balms and things I might try.

I’m interested in hormonal therapy closer to menopause.

Just talk to your doctor now. They have many things you can try.

I’m interested in estrogen cream for sure but want to wait a bit.

[Anonymous]

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