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People who take/have taken HRT for menopause symptoms, can I ask how you've found it? My GP suggested that menopause might be exacerbating my existing mental health problems and contributing to the current kablooeyness, and asked me to think about whether I'd like to try HRT. My first reaction was no, because I've never wanted to go on HRT - I had a horrible time on hormonal contraception and worry it would actually just make my mental health worse, and also I was so delighted to be over the whole thing that I hate the idea of having to take medication for something I welcomed so much. (Plus some complicated gender feels about HRT making me more woman and less genderless goblin, which I should probably just try to get over because I can't change my endocrine system by willpower alone.)

But...what if the tiredness and brain fog aren't just because I've been under continual extreme stress at work for three years, and have had various non-work stresses as well? What if it is to do with menopause and HRT would help? (I was ranting the other week about medicalisation of normal life stages and capitalism not letting people just have less energy at some life stages than others, but however true that is it doesn't change the fact that capitalism is the ocean I'm swimming in.)

Anyway. What is your experience of HRT? In particular, has anyone had good experiences with HRT after bad experiences with hormonal contraception?

Date: 2022-11-16 10:00 pm (UTC)
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No personal experience of the oestrogen-based sort to share, but wondered if low-dose testosterone might be something to explore? From what I can work out from the internet, it might be a bit of a long shot, as it only seems to be indicated if oestrogen HRT hasn't worked in certain ways - and one of those ways seems to be "lack of sexual desire", which isn't entirely helpful if you're happily asexual. On the other hand, when you said "genderless goblin", low-dose T is immediately what I thought of.

My own experience of T in higher doses is of mood stabilisation almost to a fault: mostly it's brilliant but there have been one or two occasions when I have felt It would be extremely nice to be able to have a little cry now and I just couldn't. Very weird for someone who was always told in childhood they cried too much and too easily and learned all the tear-suppression strategies.

Date: 2022-11-16 10:09 pm (UTC)
hilarita: stoat hiding under a log (Default)
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Yeah, I was going to mention low-dose T as well - it's an HRT that can be prescribed to (apparently) cis women, and it might work better for you.

Date: 2022-11-16 10:11 pm (UTC)
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I say this mostly because I am contemplating it myself, when the time comes.

Date: 2022-11-17 10:19 am (UTC)
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Being a trans woman I find the thought horrifying for obvious reasons, but I know it does work for some apparently cis people.

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