Hi,I am new to this forum and after reading several posts and messages I think this will be a Godsend to me.I have just posted under internal shaking as that is one of my symptoms.I also have sleep problems,bad concentration,horriable memory problems,mood swings,and a constant feeling of unreality.My Dr. started me on a hrt called activella yesterday.I have always been afraid to start hrt and thought I could tough it out,but I now feel like I'm going crazy and I'm desperate.My G.P.started me on celexa 3 weeks ago but I haven't really felt any better.If anyone has a success story about hrt please let me know. It will give me hope.               Thanks,                   Cindy

Hello Idyslpr45. I thought I'd point out something on Cenestin. It is plant based, but it is synthetic and conjugated, not natural or bioidentical. Unfortunately, it is still based on the horse hormone model: mostly estrone (the worst of the estrogens when it comes to increasing cancer, so they say), plus all of the other hormones that horses have, but humans don't. But at least it is not taken from the animal itself, which is abusive.

Can't argue with your feeling better though. I'm happy to hear it. Maybe in the future you might want to give a natural one a try. If your doctor tries to tell you Cenestin is "natural" you can look it up on this website or others. Doctors always think we will believe anything they say. Good luck.

I am 53 and last March I started experiencing a terrible anxiety that made it almost impossible for me to work.  Plus I had insomnia. I was still having periods but they were becoming erratic.  In the end the only thing that did away with the anxiety was Premarin. I had been taking black cohosh and soy for six months prior to having the anxiety. and seeing a homeopathic MD.  In April went to see an acupuncturist who prescribed estriol, the weakest estrogen. I also started seeing a therapist. After several weeks of getting no reponse on that I went to a psychiatrist who prescribed Serzone (I can't take SSRI anti-depressants--they give me insomnia and anxiety). I had no improvement after four weeks, even after going to a stronger estrogen--which combines estriol with 20% estradiol. I then went on 1 mg. estradiol for five weeks and switched to a tricyclic antidepressant that had helped me recover from a major depressive episode 20 years ago. After five weeks of unrelenting anxiety, during which I also started taking .5 mg Ativan once a day  just to survive, I started on Premarin. After a little over two weeks and most of the anxiety went away. It took a month or more than for my emotional equilibrium to come back.  I could stop taking the Ativan. Since my mother died of breast cancer, believe me, this was the last drug I wanted to take but the anxiety was so bad, I couldn't have continued living with it for years until my body found its own balance. I do take natural progresterone instead of the synthetic stuff because I still have a uterus. I certainly wish that the other plant-based, bioidentical estrogens had worked for me, and I suggest people try them first. But if they don't work, don't rule out Premarin. Why it should help my anxiety when the others didn't, I don't know, but it make a huge difference in my mental health.