I started HRT after 6 months of hell after ovaries stopped abruptly causing severe hormonal imbalance. I am definitely finally feeling a little relief but still having trouble with anxiety which I now think has been the cause for many of my other symptoms such as TMJ, headaches, etc.
Wondering if anyone has had relief from anxiety with HRT cause I'm wondering if HRT level is enough or if I could use a little tweaking? Thanks.
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I was taking 1.25mgs of Bi-est and my anxiety and panic were almost always there, if not right up front at least floating around in the background. Last week I had a panic attack that left me in a fetal position on the sofa. I was drained for 2 days afterward. I increased my bi-est to 2.5 mgs and 3 days after increasing it I'm feeling so much better. I think the 1.25mgs was just to small a dose for me.
hi springsjean,
i got rid of some of my anxiety/panic by taking yasmin birth control pill, 30mgs estrogen.
i would not dare come off it, it has helped so muchhhhh
i got rid of some of my anxiety/panic by taking yasmin birth control pill, 30mgs estrogen.
i would not dare come off it, it has helped so muchhhhh
I am on HRT too and find it so good for much of the rubbish we have but also not for anxiety.
What do you take? I have combined 28 day cycle pills, oetrogen for 16 days at 1mg and then these with progesterone on the last 12 days.
I feel better on it from days 5 to 18 but once I start the build up to my bleed I do not feel quite so chipper.
I too was wondering if this one is strong enough. I did have a stronger one last year but I got so much water retention my hands and feet tingled. I put on weight in terms of fluid, like 7lbs which has alll gone since being on a lower dose. Also on the higher one I got spotting almost continuously which I don't get so much on this one.
Amanda
What do you take? I have combined 28 day cycle pills, oetrogen for 16 days at 1mg and then these with progesterone on the last 12 days.
I feel better on it from days 5 to 18 but once I start the build up to my bleed I do not feel quite so chipper.
I too was wondering if this one is strong enough. I did have a stronger one last year but I got so much water retention my hands and feet tingled. I put on weight in terms of fluid, like 7lbs which has alll gone since being on a lower dose. Also on the higher one I got spotting almost continuously which I don't get so much on this one.
Amanda
Amanda - I am on continuous combipatch with .05 esrogen per day and progesterone. This is my first month. I feel so much better other than the anxiety which I think is causing my jaw/headaches. I have found that when I take the ativan, it definitely helps so I've narrowed it down to the anxiety but don't want to continuously take the ativan if I don't have to.
I have read so many conflicting things about the level of estrogen. When I first went to Dr. after 2 weeks, my estro level was at 50 which dr. said was normal. However, I have read that normal is more like 100-150. I am going to ask her and will let you know. I would like to try and see if more estro would help with anxiety since I never had it before this hormone stuff.
I have read so many conflicting things about the level of estrogen. When I first went to Dr. after 2 weeks, my estro level was at 50 which dr. said was normal. However, I have read that normal is more like 100-150. I am going to ask her and will let you know. I would like to try and see if more estro would help with anxiety since I never had it before this hormone stuff.
QUOTE (springsjean @ Jan 11 2007, 03:13 PM) 
Amanda - I am on continuous combipatch with .05 esrogen per day and progesterone. This is my first month. I feel so much better other than the anxiety which I think is causing my jaw/headaches. I have found that when I take the ativan, it definitely helps so I've narrowed it down to the anxiety but don't want to continuously take the ativan if I don't have to.
I have read so many conflicting things about the level of estrogen. When I first went to Dr. after 2 weeks, my estro level was at 50 which dr. said was normal. However, I have read that normal is more like 100-150. I am going to ask her and will let you know. I would like to try and see if more estro would help with anxiety since I never had it before this hormone stuff.
I have read so many conflicting things about the level of estrogen. When I first went to Dr. after 2 weeks, my estro level was at 50 which dr. said was normal. However, I have read that normal is more like 100-150. I am going to ask her and will let you know. I would like to try and see if more estro would help with anxiety since I never had it before this hormone stuff.
Dear Springsjean and Amanda, we are on this journey together it seems like so many others. I certainly wish the provision of H.R.T. was a more precise science, it all seems rather hit and miss. I have been on a continuous combined patch since November 22 as I could not cope any longer with the hot sweats and daytime flushes also the anxiety was totally getting to me and I thought I would have to try to get some control back especially as Christmas was looming. It seems to be helping with the sweating and I think a little with the anxiety but this is very subtle. I am not feeling quite as up and down with my moods. I did not want any bleeding back after two years without and this is why I am taking the estrogen and progestogen together. I have read on posts that the progestogen can somehow block the effect of the estrogen and I am taking it every day via the patch! One thing I have noticed is that I seem to be having more palpatations and I hope this may be short-lived. I hate the thought of being on something but going off cold-turkey would be very daunting. I find that advice in the U.K. is so patchy it is very frustrating. May you make progress towards the answers in 2007.
Thanks Simba for that, so true and what a journey!
Have you tried Magnesium, I am sure I read on here somewhere that this helps with the palpatations and general night time chaos.
Different doses have been mentioned but I just take one 300mg pill - the recommended dose on the bottle at bedtime, as I also take a multi vit with some in and I have noticed an improvement myself, although they were not so bad in the first place. I do seem to sleep better too with it and a Vit B supplement as somewhere else I read low B6 can cause sleeplessness. You are not supposed to take any B vit in isolation but as a B Complex so I got some and again think this may be helping.
Maybe you could give it a try?
Amanda
Have you tried Magnesium, I am sure I read on here somewhere that this helps with the palpatations and general night time chaos.
Different doses have been mentioned but I just take one 300mg pill - the recommended dose on the bottle at bedtime, as I also take a multi vit with some in and I have noticed an improvement myself, although they were not so bad in the first place. I do seem to sleep better too with it and a Vit B supplement as somewhere else I read low B6 can cause sleeplessness. You are not supposed to take any B vit in isolation but as a B Complex so I got some and again think this may be helping.
Maybe you could give it a try?
Amanda
QUOTE (Amanda M @ Jan 12 2007, 11:45 AM)
Thanks Simba for that, so true and what a journey!
Have you tried Magnesium, I am sure I read on here somewhere that this helps with the palpatations and general night time chaos.
Different doses have been mentioned but I just take one 300mg pill - the recommended dose on the bottle at bedtime, as I also take a multi vit with some in and I have noticed an improvement myself, although they were not so bad in the first place. I do seem to sleep better too with it and a Vit B supplement as somewhere else I read low B6 can cause sleeplessness. You are not supposed to take any B vit in isolation but as a B Complex so I got some and again think this may be helping.
Maybe you could give it a try?
Amanda
Have you tried Magnesium, I am sure I read on here somewhere that this helps with the palpatations and general night time chaos.
Different doses have been mentioned but I just take one 300mg pill - the recommended dose on the bottle at bedtime, as I also take a multi vit with some in and I have noticed an improvement myself, although they were not so bad in the first place. I do seem to sleep better too with it and a Vit B supplement as somewhere else I read low B6 can cause sleeplessness. You are not supposed to take any B vit in isolation but as a B Complex so I got some and again think this may be helping.
Maybe you could give it a try?
Amanda
QUOTE (simba2 @ Jan 12 2007, 04:07 PM)
Amanda, thanks for the suggestion about magnesium, I will give it a try. The palpatations have been much less today than yesterday which was the first day of the patch which I change twice a week. I am going to see if there is a pattern to this as it seems to tail off the nearer it gets to patch changing day! I am wondering if my body is gobbling up all the hormones in the patch very quickly, I have no idea how these transdermal patches manage to give out doses over several days. I have felt the old anxiety jagging through me on waking and off and on through the day today. This kicked in when my cycles finished two years ago and like Springsjean it has been one of the worst things as it has sapped my confidence, it is definitely hormone based as it kicked in when my periods stopped. I feel like an adolescent when I had worked my way up to being a fairly balanced and fairly confident woman and mum - how unfair. My own G.P. has been fairly unhelpful, when I first went to him he sighed and said, "It's menopause". I am thinking of going to a menopause clinic but free clinics are not too common. Doctors dont seem to have much time or expertise.
Springsjean - I take BCP and there are some symptoms that are helped, but unfortunately my anxiety isn't one of them. I also take magnesium to help with palpitations and migraines. It definitely helps with the palps, but not so much the migraines.
There are three things I've found that truly help with my anxiety - exercise, deep breathing, and when all else fails, Xanax.
Simba2 - Most doctors just don't understand any of this. I feel as if most of them dismiss us as neurotic middle aged women who don't matter, so why try to understand their troubles. Like you, I used to be a happy and confident woman, wife, and mother, and now I think I have less confidence than I did as an akward teen. At least when we were in our teens, our best friends, doctors, parents, etc. understood exactly what we were going through. Now no one, not even our best friends, want to discuss the issue, much less try to understand it.
There are three things I've found that truly help with my anxiety - exercise, deep breathing, and when all else fails, Xanax.
Simba2 - Most doctors just don't understand any of this. I feel as if most of them dismiss us as neurotic middle aged women who don't matter, so why try to understand their troubles. Like you, I used to be a happy and confident woman, wife, and mother, and now I think I have less confidence than I did as an akward teen. At least when we were in our teens, our best friends, doctors, parents, etc. understood exactly what we were going through. Now no one, not even our best friends, want to discuss the issue, much less try to understand it.
QUOTE (Mocca15 @ Jan 14 2007, 01:08 AM)
Springsjean - I take BCP and there are some symptoms that are helped, but unfortunately my anxiety isn't one of them. I also take magnesium to help with palpitations and migraines. It definitely helps with the palps, but not so much the migraines.
There are three things I've found that truly help with my anxiety - exercise, deep breathing, and when all else fails, Xanax.
Simba2 - Most doctors just don't understand any of this. I feel as if most of them dismiss us as neurotic middle aged women who don't matter, so why try to understand their troubles. Like you, I used to be a happy and confident woman, wife, and mother, and now I think I have less confidence than I did as an akward teen. At least when we were in our teens, our best friends, doctors, parents, etc. understood exactly what we were going through. Now no one, not even our best friends, want to discuss the issue, much less try to understand it.
There are three things I've found that truly help with my anxiety - exercise, deep breathing, and when all else fails, Xanax.
Simba2 - Most doctors just don't understand any of this. I feel as if most of them dismiss us as neurotic middle aged women who don't matter, so why try to understand their troubles. Like you, I used to be a happy and confident woman, wife, and mother, and now I think I have less confidence than I did as an akward teen. At least when we were in our teens, our best friends, doctors, parents, etc. understood exactly what we were going through. Now no one, not even our best friends, want to discuss the issue, much less try to understand it.
QUOTE (Mocca15 @ Jan 14 2007, 01:08 AM)
Springsjean - I take BCP and there are some symptoms that are helped, but unfortunately my anxiety isn't one of them. I also take magnesium to help with palpitations and migraines. It definitely helps with the palps, but not so much the migraines.
There are three things I've found that truly help with my anxiety - exercise, deep breathing, and when all else fails, Xanax.
Simba2 - Most doctors just don't understand any of this. I feel as if most of them dismiss us as neurotic middle aged women who don't matter, so why try to understand their troubles. Like you, I used to be a happy and confident woman, wife, and mother, and now I think I have less confidence than I did as an akward teen. At least when we were in our teens, our best friends, doctors, parents, etc. understood exactly what we were going through. Now no one, not even our best friends, want to discuss the issue, much less try to understand it.
There are three things I've found that truly help with my anxiety - exercise, deep breathing, and when all else fails, Xanax.
Simba2 - Most doctors just don't understand any of this. I feel as if most of them dismiss us as neurotic middle aged women who don't matter, so why try to understand their troubles. Like you, I used to be a happy and confident woman, wife, and mother, and now I think I have less confidence than I did as an akward teen. At least when we were in our teens, our best friends, doctors, parents, etc. understood exactly what we were going through. Now no one, not even our best friends, want to discuss the issue, much less try to understand it.
QUOTE (Mocca15 @ Jan 14 2007, 01:08 AM)
Springsjean - I take BCP and there are some symptoms that are helped, but unfortunately my anxiety isn't one of them. I also take magnesium to help with palpitations and migraines. It definitely helps with the palps, but not so much the migraines.
There are three things I've found that truly help with my anxiety - exercise, deep breathing, and when all else fails, Xanax.
Simba2 - Most doctors just don't understand any of this. I feel as if most of them dismiss us as neurotic middle aged women who don't matter, so why try to understand their troubles. Like you, I used to be a happy and confident woman, wife, and mother, and now I think I have less confidence than I did as an akward teen. At least when we were in our teens, our best friends, doctors, parents, etc. understood exactly what we were going through. Now no one, not even our best friends, want to discuss the issue, much less try to understand it.
There are three things I've found that truly help with my anxiety - exercise, deep breathing, and when all else fails, Xanax.
Simba2 - Most doctors just don't understand any of this. I feel as if most of them dismiss us as neurotic middle aged women who don't matter, so why try to understand their troubles. Like you, I used to be a happy and confident woman, wife, and mother, and now I think I have less confidence than I did as an akward teen. At least when we were in our teens, our best friends, doctors, parents, etc. understood exactly what we were going through. Now no one, not even our best friends, want to discuss the issue, much less try to understand it.
Mocca 15 Thanks for your advise. You are right, when we were adolescents many of us had our mums to lean on for support through the rollercoaster ride. Thinking back now my own mother must have been struggling with her own menopause then but it was hardly discussed except in a very whispered way. As you say some of my friends are either hardly suffering physical/emotional symptoms at this time and are extremely lucky or they are not talking about it or attributing what is going on with their bodies and minds to the menopause. Obviously each woman is different. I must have 'drawn a short straw'- had trouble conceiving, morning sickness and now quite a rollercoaster ride of a change - next time round I am coming back as a man! Seriously, I am perhaps becoming a bit of a menopause bore but I dont think we should keep this undercover like it used to be. The more we talk the better chance we have of finding solutions.
Simba - thanks alot. Yes I truly believe anxiety is very bad for you and should be relieved as it will only worsen or cause other symptoms. However, I am having a terrible time with joint/muscle fatigue and aches. Thought the jaw locking up was anxiety but now today my legs/hips ache terrible so perhaps the jaw is not from the anxiety; however, it usually goes awaywith an ativan.
I am so confused and hate to complain since I feel so much better since starting the HRT but I too have lost the confidence because at any given moment my jaw could tighten and again I have trouble speaking. Ugh. This is for the birds!
I am so confused and hate to complain since I feel so much better since starting the HRT but I too have lost the confidence because at any given moment my jaw could tighten and again I have trouble speaking. Ugh. This is for the birds!
QUOTE (simba2 @ Jan 12 2007, 04:29 PM)
Amanda, thanks for the suggestion about magnesium, I will give it a try. The palpatations have been much less today than yesterday which was the first day of the patch which I change twice a week. I am going to see if there is a pattern to this as it seems to tail off the nearer it gets to patch changing day! I am wondering if my body is gobbling up all the hormones in the patch very quickly, I have no idea how these transdermal patches manage to give out doses over several days. I have felt the old anxiety jagging through me on waking and off and on through the day today. This kicked in when my cycles finished two years ago and like Springsjean it has been one of the worst things as it has sapped my confidence, it is definitely hormone based as it kicked in when my periods stopped. I feel like an adolescent when I had worked my way up to being a fairly balanced and fairly confident woman and mum - how unfair. My own G.P. has been fairly unhelpful, when I first went to him he sighed and said, "It's menopause". I am thinking of going to a menopause clinic but free clinics are not too common. Doctors dont seem to have much time or expertise.
I have also started taking magnesium at the end of last year as a lady on site suggested it. My anxiety went after roughly 1 -2 weeks. I forgot to take it yesterday and yep sure enough - anxiety on waking this morning!!! Definately worth giving a go and it doesnt cost much either!
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