Posted by owensmar on August 31, 2004, at 22:48:43
I know that Progesterone (especially the bioidentical kind) is supposed to make you feel *better* once you're peri or menopausal. But every time I go on certain kinds of HRT, I get these horrible anxiety attacks and feel just in anguish, despair. Admittedly, all three times I've had these kinds of episodes, something else was at play - a new a/d usually. But it is seeming more and more that if I take progesterone (estrogen treats me fine) I get very close to suicidal. Even the bioidentical progesterone seems to be making me feel horrible.
Have any of you had this experience? I'm 48 and in early menopause. I've had this experience with Activella (continuous synthetic) and with continuous bioidenticals. Not so much with a cyclical like Ortho-Prefest (3 days of estradiol, then 3 days of estradiol plus synthetic progestin).
Does progesterone do this to you? Or is it just coincidental that everytime I've felt this way, I've been on HRT?
Please help. I don't know if I need to go on atypical antipsychotics, change meds entirely, augment my Effexor or just give up on hormones and suffer the hot flashes, etc.
I'm feeling at the end of my rope.
Marsha
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