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[valkryor]

Usually, when I'm menstruating, my menopausal symptoms abate and I get some relief from hot flashes and anxiety spikes. Except this time.

It's been not great.

I'm exhausted, because my hot flashes and anxiety spikes are worse at night, you know, WHEN I'M TRYING TO SLEEP. This detoxing-from-estrogen nonsense is BULLSHIT. If it was just the hot flashes and all the 'joy' that that brings, it wouldn't be so bad, but the anxiety is a lot. For those of you with GAD, my sympathies.

(And no, I'm not interested in hormone therapy, because putting this off until a later date defeats the point of going through this, which has to happen at some point, so... Yeah.)

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[kadenza]

Im really sorry, that sounds miserable. :(

For the record, symptoms don’t necessarily come roaring back when (if?) you eventually decide to go off HRT. Of course ymmv, but personally I’m turning into an estro evangelist.

[valkryor]

I'm just happy I still had an Ativan kicking around from my tooth extraction last year. I took it last night to get some relief from the anxiety and actually slept well last night. I only had a handful of tablets that I've been very judicious about using, and now I have none, so I think I should get some more to manage this part of it at least.

[kadenza]

Oh, how I treasure my leftovers. I have a little bit of morphine, a little bit of hydrocodone syrup, and most of a bottle of Tylenol 3. I don’t actually take any of it in case I "really need it" some day.

I hope you can wrangle some more Ativan, it’s good stuff. We used to knock my dad out with it when he was very agitated.