HRT Update | Nearly Six Months In.....
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- Link to article about Sjögren's syndrome and the menopause:
www.healio.com/news/rheumatology/20190715/lower-estrogen-exposure-linked-to-increased-risk-for-sjgrens-syndrome-in-women
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New subscriber here. Thank you for your video, stumbled across you when I was searching for HRT. I think your brilliant, love your personality. I also have EUPD ADHD bipolar disorder 😢. Thank you xx
Hi Sammy 👋
Thank you for your lovely comment 😊
Wow - EUPD and ADHD and Bipolar Disorder. That's really, really tough. I'm so sorry you're having to deal with all that. You must be very brave and strong! I hope you're doing okay 💗 xxx
@@emeraldstrangeyour last video was a year ago. Where are you?
Hiya, your last video really related. I didn’t even know I had BPD until the peri menopause hit! I was high functioning. After my dog passing away and then a week later my partner ending it (another failed relationship) i fell apart.i had been doing inner work for the last few years prior so already had some insight. I could normally mask up and just get back on both things… but this time it was different, anyway.. then the diagnosis! I have been a single mum raising two years, very high functioning always worked like a dog, but now I just can’t keep going! A lot of new doors have shut and opened… my mental health and energy levels are on the floor. I can’t seem to find the strength as I always have had to pull myself up again. I am a few months into hrt, and taking anti depressants for the first time. I see and hear you! I have felt like I have been going mad and I have behaved in ways I would normally able to control! It’s been and is very tough! Sending love xxx
I'm so, so sorry that you're going through such a tough time. You've been hit by everything at once - one tsunami after another. You pick yourself up and another one hits.
Your dog passing away, your partner ending your relationship, being in peri-menopause, and then being diagnosed with BPD.
Each of these on their own are major life events, but all together - I mean no wonder you're blimming struggling.
Plus, you've always worked so hard, AND you're a single mum!!!
Honestly, I'm absolutely in awe of you. I just think you're amazing.
It's sounds like a really good thing that you've been doing some inner work - knowledge is power - but all that stuff kinda goes out the window when you're literally on your knees.
Have you got some kind of support to help you get through this? Are the HRT and antidepressants making any difference?
Please be kind to yourself 🙏 It's so easy to blame ourselves or criticise ourselves when we're struggling. Especially when we've always been high-functioning and battled on through in the past.
Thank you for leaving your message and being brave enough to share what you're going through. I really hope things get better for you. I'm thinking of you and sending love back xxx
Thank you, I have tears reading this! I have been scanning TH-cam for other with BPD who are going through this transition! I know it’s different for everyone as we are all in a scale so to speak. The last couple of years have been a roller coaster. I haven’t noticed a huge difference on hrt. And only a week in on the ADs and I am still coming to term ms with Temne diagnosis even though I already had my suspicions and wanted to be in some kind of denial! Anyway I am considering giving up work (self employed carer) to finally after 25 years give myself some much needed respite and just surrender for a while! I am so dysregulated and riddled with so much anxiety we can only be kind to ourselves.
Thank you for sharing- it’s such valuable information that is rarely spoken about! Peri menopause amplifies EVERYTHING! Xxx
@@lornaelizabeth6290 Bless you. I'm sorry the last couple of years have been so hard. I really hope the HRT and antidepressants help. They can both take a while to kick in. And it's a shock being diagnosed with something like BPD, even when you have your suspicions! There's a lot of stigma around it, too.
That, plus peri-menopause, plus life throwing curveballs at you left, right, and centre 🤯🤯🤯
It sounds like a break from work would be really good for you if you can manage it. Being a carer is tough! And you've been doing it for 25 years. Wow, that takes so much strength, patience, and compassion ❤️ You absolutely deserve some respite and time to recharge and heal.
Stress and anxiety take such a toll on the body. Especially when you're going through so much other stuff, too. I really wish you well and hope you feel better very, very soon! Please look after yourself xxx
@emeraldstrange I'm looking at ect now.
hi, love your personality :) See your skin patches made me remember having those on my own body about 5 years ago, although mine were never large areas, more like your small patches. Mine weren't particularly itchy, although my whole body and scalp later became crazy itchy/burny a few years later. I did start estrogen orally but I don't really know why as I didn't know I was suffering perimenopause things, I just didn't feel right so I tried it. Anyway, those skin patches slowly stopped over about two years or three years. It's only about five weeks ago, a full five years after me starting to feel not myself, that I've realised that possibly all my problems I've suffered with for the past five or more years have been probably due to falling hormones. And then I had a total hysterectomy a year ago. So only now am I learning all things menopause, at 57!! Listening to your story, do you think you are on a high enough dose of your estrogen? It's early days for me and I'm taking it in tablet form, but I'm going to ask to try the patch in the hopes that works better for me. I've been on oral estrogen now for about four years, but it seems I was never on enough. I only just increased my dose so now I'm waiting. I'm so sorry you are suffering with so many symptoms, and hope you find some relief very soon
Thank you for your lovely comment and for sharing your story. I'm sorry you've been through so much, and been suffering for all these years. I think you've been extremely brave and your profile pic still shows your beautiful smile in spite of it all!
It's certainly a struggle trying to stay positive when riding this 'hormonal roller coaster'. Nobody warns you how awful it can be going through the peri-menopause; and just how many bizarre and debilitating symptoms it can cause.
I'm waiting to see a gynaecologist again (which could take some time - the NHS in this country seems to be broken.....), so will definitely mention the estrogen levels thing to them.
I really, really hope your health improves and you begin to find some relief and equilibrium.
Sending you lots of good wishes and thank you again for your kind words 😊
Hope you’re doing ok Emerald!
Thank you for your kind comment 😊 Not doing too well, which is why I haven't been vlogging. I really hope you're okay!
@@emeraldstrange Oh no I’m sorry to hear that. :( Hang in there my friend. Everything will eventually be ok before you know it. I’m doing ok myself. Just hang in there and do what you need to do to take care of yourself, and treat yourself to something you love. Some “me time” when you’re feeling down definitely helps me out. Glad to hear from you regardless!
@BladesAndDiamonds You are lovely! Thank you - your kind and supportive words mean a great deal. Just got to keep on keeping on.....
I'm glad you're okay. I hope life is treating you well and that you're happy. You definitely deserve to be! 😊
@@emeraldstrange thank you so much. You are lovely as well! I know you can get through it!
Hi, I love your videos. How have you been since your last update? Did you get to try testosterone?
Thank you so much for your comment! Unfortunately, I haven't been doing too well, which is why I haven't been vlogging. No, no testosterone. I couldn't get hold of any unless I went private, which I can't afford to do at the moment. Are you on HRT? How are you getting on?
@@emeraldstrangeomg, I’m so sorry! Both for the fact that you haven’t been so well and for not getting testosterone unless you go private. That’s so wrong! To be honest, I’ve figured out pretty recently that I’ve probably been in perimenopause for about 10 years. I’ve had so many health issues that make sense when I learn about this. The final year I’ve been so much worse. Your story really resonnated. And i loved your humor ❤ I finally got HRT a week ago. I first got the patchers that you said You’ve got. The combined. But i didn’t want to take them, so I spoke up yo my gynecologist and she finally did the research and accepted to give me Estrogel and Utrogestan. She would not give me testo though. At least not initially. I am convinced that my muscle and joint pain and fatigue and lack of motivation is a lack of testo, so I will go back in 2 to 3 months and I will FIGHT to get my hormone back! I think it should be my right. I’m in Norway, and HRT seems to be even further behind than the UK.
frito lays corn chips gave me eczema if you are eating them might be causing the rash, I eat junk all the time also feel like crap small joy in junk food but the chips caused my eczema.
Thank you for the advice 😊 I might try avoiding corn altogether. Worth a try!
Rice and bland chicken. Eliminate everything else.
Are you taking any psychiatric meds? If yes, are you tapering? These meds are awful and should take months to years to taper.
I am. I wish I wasn't, but every time I've ever tried to come off them (tapering slowly), I just get worse. At the moment, I feel too unwell to even try. Have you tapered off meds before?
@emeraldstrange where are you?