Medical Menopause

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I was peri menopausal before my hysterectomy, relatively symptom free and still getting regular periods. Now a month after the surgery I feel like I’ve been run over by the menopause bus. All the symptoms, all the time. It’s not fun. I’m waiting for a referral to the menopause clinic. I’ve been reading that medically induced menopause is often more extreme. My gyno (who wasn’t the most helpful) said hrt is a no no cause the cancer was oestrogen responsive.

Hopefully the wait for the clinic won’t be too long but in the meantime, what advice have you’ve been given, and what have you tried if you went or are going through this? 

  • You have my sympathies!  I'm on the same menopause bus.  Although I was on HRT before my hysterectomy, so feel like I've gone through this twice (once naturally and once surgically). 

    My worst symptom is the night sweats which are distrubing my sleep - it was the same when I went through menopause before, although that time I also had bad anxiety, a stressful job (I left that one) and it was the Covid year.  I'm still waiting for my follow-up with the surgeon, and am expecting to be told not to go back on HRT so am trying to educate myself on non-hormonal options.  There do seem to be a few medications that might be useful, although I will try to go natural if I can (as I assume the HRT is why I got cancer in the first place).

    It's hard to know what online information to trust.  Use of CBT to help with symptoms does seem to be effective, and the Women's Health Concern have a useful factsheet that might be of interest to you: www.womens-health-concern.org/.../02-WHC-FACTSHEET-CBT-WOMEN-FEB-2023-A.pdf