“Possibly one of the most unpleasant symptoms of peri-menopause are night sweats…
Honestly, I only had them very rarely.
I wondered why but then, during my research, stumbled upon the answer.
**It appears that Citalopram (an antidepressant that I take) can offset night sweats in perimenopause!**
Thank God I’m a nervous wreck, or I’d have soaked through my pjs 😂
Anyway, on with my HRT journey… By now, I was into week 5 of my trial…
I would say that, honestly, my energy levels were up a little…
But this was offset by the fact that I was still literally awake ALL NIGHT…
I was going to sleep around 4 am and then up at 7 am for work… Not ideal.
I’d been suffering from joint pain, which, I’d hoped, would have eased with the addition of HRT…
But, truthfully, I didn’t really see any difference with this.
Now ladies… God didn’t grace me with much in the way of physical wins…
But I have always been lucky enough never to suffer from spots or acne.
Even in my teens, I managed to dodge the dreaded pimples.
Oh, but Mother Nature was about to get her own back…
I woke up one morning during week 5 with a face like a Domino’s double pepperoni!
WTF?
I couldn’t believe it! My face was in manner of a teenage boy who refused to wash…
Spots and boils but also dry patches.
I stopped my original (rich) moisturiser but then felt like I had a face tighter than Amanda Holden’s!
What the hell was happening to me?
I was disheartened and feeling like I didn’t know my own body…
HRT 1 – CLAIRE 0…”
Claire 💋
P.S. Despite being largely left to it by my own GP and my earlier jokes about my medical “experience”
…I’m not a doctor.
And this isn’t medical advice.
Y’know – disclaimers, and all that.
