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[quote=Anonymous]Anyone else enter menopause and feel better? I know the board is filled with horror so wanted to see who is out there.

I had an emotional perimenopause--weird periods for about 7 years, anxiety, hormonal anger--particularly bad around period, exhaustion as the years went on for a week before period, functional ovarian cysts that would cause pain and bloating and stomach trouble when I would get one--a few a year--they go away on their own.  I had a few pelvic ultrasounds.  Then, I at 53 I had one extremely, extremely heavy period (last June) that lasted weeks until I went to ER--got meds to stop bleeding--had pelvic ultrasound and endo. biopsy--nothing found.  Low progesterone was the cause--so they gave me Prog. only BC but I stopped it after 3 months because it made me bloated and was starting to gain weight.

I haven't had a period since mid-December and since then I have felt fantastic.  I don't get bloating. My moods are stable. I don't get that racing anxiety and snappiness I used to get right before my period.  I sometimes get a mini hotness (but not even a true hot flash--just a flush and gone).  But- I'm absolutely loving not having periods and that freedom as they got so crappy and unpredictable at the end.

I know I'm not 'officially' in menopause since it's only been 4 months without a period (I'm 54 now)--but I don't feel the need for HRT. I really think hormones effect me strongly ---as soon as period started as a teen-I had a lot of issues.  My body also had trouble with some pill formulations and breakthrough spotting.  I think w/out the hormone surge and all that estrogen I'm actually better.

Just a mind dump and wanted to know if anyone else just felt better when their periods stopped?
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