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Prempak C Day 19

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baggypanda
baggypanda

Ladies, anyone have any feedback about the norgestrel part of PrempakC? I'm still on my first packet. Day 19 now and for the last 2 days I've had the most crippling anxiety (just like it was before I started taking HRT).  I felt absolutely amazing last week and was just like I was 20 years ago. I then got some bad news, which wasn't as bad as I thought (I thought my mum had died, when infact she had just had an epileptic fit through dementia - she lives in a care home) and at the time me and my OH were doing the horizontal mambo (first time I felt like it in 6 months) well all the panic about it threw me off kilter, and at the same time I started taking the norgestrel part with the estrogen.  Could it be this that's exhaggerating it?  I didn't manage to sleep much last night as I had an ear worm going round my head that didn't make any sense at all and I was trying to battle against that and calm myself down.  I don't want to give the HRT up so early in the treatment, but does it actually get better or am I going to have 2 weeks which are hell and 2 really good weeks now forever?

I don't have any females in my family to talk to about this, so I keep feeling sorry for myself over it. Mum doesn't know who I am anymore anyway so I can't speak to her, I just feel so alone with it all.

My best friend is also going through it, but she has had a hysterectomy so she doesn't have the ups and downs I'm having.  I just can't stand feeling like this. I'm normally such a happy person (yeah I've got illnesses but they never get me down) I just can't seem to stop beating myself up over putting mum in a care home when I'm like this and cry non stop for hours.  Does it ever end!  Am I expecting too much from the HRT too soon??

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  • baggypanda
    baggypanda

    Posted

    Forgot to mention, my nerves keep popping too, they nearly throw me out of bed sometimes they're so bad.  Will I be ok?  Will it get better soon?
  • Jan999
    Jan999 baggypanda

    Posted

    I think you need to go back to your GP because what you describe is very difficult for anyone on the forum to help really. 
    • baggypanda
      baggypanda Jan999

      Posted

      GP said I've literally got to sit it out until I finish the packet. Just want to know I'm not alone.
    • Jan999
      Jan999 baggypanda

      Posted

      I think you have other issues that are masking how your HRT is or isn't benefitting you because of what you have going on in your life at the moment. If you think it's the HRT then it is extremely unusual 
    • baggypanda
      baggypanda Jan999

      Posted

      Just as I thought deep down to be honest.  Think I will book that therapist appointment as I know what my trigger is.  Thanks Matron x
  • caroline_19506
    caroline_19506 baggypanda

    Posted

    Sorry to hear about your mum my dad was in a care home last year through dementia but unfortunately passed away last year I've had a hysterectomy last year and when I first started the menopause in 2012 I started on prempack and found at first I got headaches but after a while I felt better even though I got the bleeds back just give it a bit longer then if you still don't like it go back to the doctors and change it for something else theres no need to beat yourself up about your mum I'm sure she's receiving the best care for her bless you x
    • baggypanda
      baggypanda caroline_19506

      Posted

      Oh she's loving it. They're a totally fantastic home. The owner treats all the residents like his own family. I just think that because I was so close to my Mum, I've not really accepted that she has it and there's nothing I could do to stop it.  All happened so quickly and because she's the only woman left in my life, I feel out on a limb with it.  So going to ask the hypnotherapist to visit me next week (she's private so will come out as I'm housebound).  Time to face things and get them sorted to stop triggering me getting to anxious. 
    • baggypanda
      baggypanda caroline_19506

      Posted

      I've only had the headaches since starting the norgestrel (although it might not be connected at all, might be anxiety).
  • caroline_19506
    caroline_19506 baggypanda

    Posted

    That's good then my dad was in a private one too hope you get on OK all the best let me know how it goes x
  • caroline_19506
    caroline_19506 baggypanda

    Posted

    Yes could be I was close to my dad and I still miss him bless him x
    • baggypanda
      baggypanda caroline_19506

      Posted

      Never realised it affected me so much until she started having seizures.  Thought it was just the PeriMenopause causing it all. Guess it's helped me identify what's been causing it though. I don't get hot sweats now so that's a blessing.
    • price6209
      price6209 baggypanda

      Posted

      Don't give up on your HRT! It takes 2 weeks to get into your system, but then it starts getting regulated and it will takes "months."  Yes, months! My doctor kept telling me I'll be fine in 3 months, but my estrogen level was so low that by the third month I wasn't any better. Then I started talking to a couple other women and they were doing just as I was. One in particular was ahead of me (taking Estradiol  as we both had full hysterectomys) by 2 months. She said by the end of the 6th month you'll begin feeling a "tiny" bit better, but you'll have ups and downs, but you think you can almost see a light at the end of this long dark tunnel.  I'm now in my 9th month and FINALLY I can tell the HRT is working. My doctor's nurse took me aside and said hormones is VERY SLOW and takes quite awhile until you're regulated - it's true. Everything my friend told me is exactly what happened to me as well. In the beginning I had so much anxiety that my blood pressure would spike up to 204/110, I literally felt I need anti-depressants, I was going insane, one night I told my husband I needed to go to the ER because I felt I was having a nervous breakdown. What saved my life was my asking my doctor for a prescription of Xanax - yes I know it's additive, but not if you watch what you take, don't take it every day, only days you can't make it. I would take 1/2 mg. Also, at night I would take a Tylenol PM. Good luck, grit your teeth and just know you'll get through it and keep thinking 6 months, 6 months.
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