Money saving in perimenopause and menopause

SadieO

Bahhumbug said:

kimwp said:

 but my GP says that the only true symptoms are hot flushes and night sweats (and my brain fog, random anxious pits in my stomach, pins and needles, heart palpitations etc etc)  aren't a sign of anything

Yeah, no, all of those are totally normal symptoms. I could do without the anxiety!

Also, tinnitus and frozen shoulder. They try to tell you that they're not linked to menopause - oh, but they are!!!
Also, major muscle loss. As much as 70% if you're not super careful (aka if you don't eat enough protein to prevent it)! No one tells you this either. I feel like they should, seems pretty important to me?

I've learned so much from the perimenopause board on reddit. There's a huge amount of possible symptoms, many of which I would have had no idea were related. Frozen shoulder as you say - I realised that all the people I'd known with it were women in their late 40s! Some other weird ones are itchy ears and sore fingernails. 

I was chatting with a friend at work the other day and she was telling me her mum insisted she'd had no peri or menopause symtoms at all. She just one day didn't have periods any more. While I am sure plenty of people have better or worse times of it I do wonder if she was experiencing symptoms but didn't attibute them to menopause?!

Murphybear

kimwp said:

Brambling said:

I was warned against buying a memory foam mattress by the middle aged woman assistant in the bed shop as they can make you hot, which isn't what you need when you are menopausal.  As I left the shop she was explaining why to her young male colleague who was puzzled how she knew to warn me that!

Haha! Subscribing to this thread for other hints and tips, hopefully won't be peri for five years or so, but it's looming!

I was 42 when I started my menopause.  It was quite useful as I had only just got together with my current partner, that was nearly 30 years ago 😺.  Our first bed was a waterbed, quite useful as you can change the temperature 

Sandals70

How much your GP know about the menopause is very hit and miss - I've been prescribed testosterone from one, with no issue, moved to another and had to fight them to prescribe ( ended up having to write to the local health authority to complain, as I was being told that by my new GP that they could not prescribe it) When they eventually did they gave me a huge amount that will last me for years - totally incompetent. I have recently moved to a different town and my new GP has a very knowledgeable pharmacists, who has had a number of very long chats with me. They raised concerns about the amount I had been given to me by my past GP. and also prescribed non-hormonal vaginal moisturizers and lubricants which I already knew to be of very good quality (search yesyesyes.org for more info)  - The long and the short of it is educate yourself and don't let the GP fob you off. There are a lot of useful free on-line articles my the Newsons Menopause Clinic to help with this.
 
During this time I came across a well priced private menopause service that Superdrug have been running, for a few years now, which I found really helpful. They were able to provide private on-line GP appointments with doctors who knew what they were talking about, and offer assistance with blood tests and prescriptions
 

kimwp

Murphybear said:

kimwp said:

Brambling said:

I was warned against buying a memory foam mattress by the middle aged woman assistant in the bed shop as they can make you hot, which isn't what you need when you are menopausal.  As I left the shop she was explaining why to her young male colleague who was puzzled how she knew to warn me that!

Haha! Subscribing to this thread for other hints and tips, hopefully won't be peri for five years or so, but it's looming!

I was 42 when I started my menopause.  It was quite useful as I had only just got together with my current partner, that was nearly 30 years ago 😺.  Our first bed was a waterbed, quite useful as you can change the temperature 

So it turns out I was in perimenopause already when I posted this! Not yet 40 at the time