Finally.....NICE is developing Menopause Guidelines for GP. Too little, Too late???
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Hi All
Blimey, we are a popular bunch! See we made the news all day in the UK yesterday.
We've actually got those lovely people in NICE finally acknowledging that our GPs really need to be singing from the same songsheet - or actually having a copy of the 'sheet' in the case of some GPs, clearly! - with regards to helping us ol' birds during Peri/Menopause!! And about time too!
But is it a case of too little, too late for a lot of us? I'm not actually taking conventional HRT at the moment. I don't rule it out for the future (never say never and all that), but do hope that by the time I go back to my GP (not the dosey Nurse 'Mrs Happy Pills' Practitioner next time!!) I'll be treated like a rational, mature woman, and given proper options of treatments to help me.
Emmmm, it will be interesting to see how long it takes the average GP to get their head around the ever-increasing list of symptoms of Peri-and Menopausal symptoms. I think that list off 66 symptoms is growing weekly!
It will also be nice to see how often younger ladies (those outside the 'committed in stone' age brackets of 45-55!!) continue to be fobbed off still when they describe obvious Peri symptoms to be told they're 'too young' to be Peri!!!
We shall all wait with baited breath no doubt to see if NICE's guidelines actually work. Hopefully there will lots more help for those enterring Peri, if not for ourselves.
Anyone else read/hear anything specific about this issue yesterday?
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bumbumhere shaznay96184
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I'm frustrated with the fact that this menopause is, and has, and will continue to make my life a misery. I have read pages of uncomprehensible information on the net. I am on other medication, and have been asked to seek advice first.
£2.50 per day is alot, but on reflection - it's all good! It would mean a definate improvement (even if it only improved some of the symtoms) to the quality of other womens lives.
Hope this makes somes sense. So, so annoyed. I wish you all the best for now. Here's a smile! :-) bumbumhere x
shaznay96184 bumbumhere
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Welcome to 'Our World'! Think finding this site myself just around Xmas time (a particularly bad time for me personally) has been my saviour.
I love the fact that those who use this are not trying to sell us anything; we can all have an opinion about absolutely ANYTHING (and I truly mean that: I have never 'talked' so much about my constripation, sex drive, brown discharge (urgh!)) . And best thing is: SO, SO many others on here do the same: what a result! (In fact I've just read a new discussion about feeling faint after having a poo - can you imagine sharing that one with your nearest and dearest?!! (Sadly, I'm happy to, much to my ol' man's disgust! I couldn't comment on that as I am one of those who puts the flags out when she finally manages to 'Go'!!!)
). Sorry, I digress....
Feel so sad when I read of you young girls having to encounter all this at such an early age. Its really not fair.
But the one thing I read in your case is that your GP wants you to stay on your HRT, and has Green-Lighted you to remain on it for another 10yrs.
I'm not currently taking conventional HRT (applying bioidentical Progesterone Cream: seems to keep me where I wanna be...for now), but really wouldn't rule it out. And the reason I say that, and the reason I'm replying to you is that my dear ol' mum (RIP @ 81yrs: little darlingxx) was the mother of 5, very active, hands-on grandmother to 10, having suffered TB in her bones twice in her lifetime, wasn't offered HRT or any advice as far as I'm aware. As a consequence, our poor little 4'11.5", tiny framed mum who was always on the go ended up needing 3 hip replacement ops, all post-Meno
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Notwithstanding the fact that the first two op's totally enhanced her life (doing white knuckle rides aged 72 in Florida!!), the last was not great as she was getting on and was, in her words 'totally kn*ckered!' by then! She also dropped to 4'10", due to ops and, I suspect, the wear n' tear on her dear ol' bones.
So I see why your GP is actively encouraging you to stay with it: probably for the sake of your L/T bone health.
What I've found is when I've not been using the Prog Cream, my joints ache SO much, I feel as old as my mum would be now - 95!! I creak, click and 'catch', which sometimes has me yelling out. I joke about things, always have, but really cannot imagine how my mum - all our mums, probably - got through this cr*p without help. True when they say 'they don't make 'em like they used to'.
I suspect that should you stop taking your HRT, you too will go head-on into all the symptoms the rest of us are experiencing. For me personally, I find the 'physical' symptoms hardest to tolerate (even though I think of myself as a tough cookie!): 'emotionally': I don't feel so bad for the majority of the time.
But then I suspect my Menopace Original vit/min supplement (1-a-day pill, suits me down to the ground) helps here due to the Vit B6/B12/Magnesium etc in it. I honestly believe the World and 'Her' Wife are deficient in Vit D anyway, so I sometimes supplement that too: have not looked back since I started this regime.
I think HRT will remain a very contentious issue, all the time we read such conflicting findings from different studies. I think I take a lot from reading about those who said taking it was a God Send (my 3 sisters included), and weigh up the odds:
~ Do I want the age terribly overnight
~ Do I want to walk like I'm crippled, with every joint aching
~ Do I want to sweat, dripping, with a bright red face*
~ Do I want a life to look forward to that is sex-less, drab, with a dried up Do-Dah, saggy t*ts and wrinkles
~ Do I want to become a blubbering wreak, thinking that I can't cope with everyday life
~ Worse of all: that'd I'd lose my sense of humour/fun and the love of my family??????
*may as well just where the T-Shirt "I'm Menopausal - Get Over it!!"
Well I say that I'm not taking conventional HRT, but the bioidentical is putting something back in me that I obviously need. I hate the thought of this 'Thing' ruling my life. I would actually love to come out the other side (12mths, and a day without a bleed would be a nice start!) without having to use conventional HRT. But its the 'bones' things that worries me. Plus if I can get though these symptoms without 'deferring' them with HRT, I might just survive this nightmare!
There! That's me done!
Seriously kiddo, I think the only way you will really appreciate what HRT is actually doing for you, is by seeing what it brings on without it!! Your decision of course, and at 54, I'm an old timer to your mere 40. In your shoes? I'd probably feel exactly the same as you. Life's really not fair sometimes is it?
Let us all know what you do. I for one would be interested to hear what you decide to do, as you've a lot of living to do Kid, believe me!!
Sun's shining in/around London. Birds are singing. Husband's out with his cronies. Son/Grandson have just gone = Peace. There's just me, no noise, a computer, coffee, and this fantastic site to keep me happy today! Ordinarily, I'd be stuffing my face with chocolate, crisps, maybe a McD Drive-Thro', but I've gone all 'spiritual' - by that I mean I've got a grip on myself and cut out the cr*p, eating much better in an attempt to shift the blubber. Just wish I'd listened to my 'larger' sister who kept telling me its hard to lose weight at this time: she was not joking! Mind you, at 62, she's a chubbawubba, but even my husband says she looks bloody good for her age. No help from tons of make-up etc: we're all in the natural blonde/red headed spectrum with fair skin. She tells me she's 'frightened' to lose weight as (a) she'll lose her bonny look; (b) she'll get a turkey neck; and (c) what will happen to her bass drum-of a gut!! See, the humour was a wonderful girl from our mum!!
Have a good day you girls. We deserve it
Sx