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Originally Posted by Blueberrybook
So you're about my age. I just turned 47. Yeah being in perimenopause can def. cause issues with your periods. Mine still turn up every 28 days but just are super light. I had wondered if you were younger, in your 30s or something with PCOS the pill might be beneficial but at 46, I just don't know. Like you said the links to breast cancer. And I know the hormones on the regular pill made it seem like I had bipolar and borderline and mixed and all sorts of SHYT. So I'm not going on hormones if I can help it even if I have had what I think were a couple of hot flashes AND am losing the hair on my head at a rate faster than it's growing in. At least I'm blonde, the gray shows less.
You really should add an exercise routine, boring as it is. And who cares if students see you walking? Wear headphones and just crank up the music so you don't hear. Or there's the trick of walking in the dark. Not the safest, but I absolutely love it. My eyes get sensitive to light, part of just being blue and partly from the Seroquel I think. I LOVE night walking. Not the safest, but maybe you have somewhere it is possible. Or try the pilates vidoes or treadmill. It's hard to start exercising but after sticking with it a week or two, you start noticing the benefits. And it WILL increase your metabolism.
I think @Tart Cherry Jam has talked some about exercise changing her body shape even if her weight hasn't changed as much as she'd like? Though maybe by now she's lost more; some of her workouts would have done me in! |
I was just talking with my trainer that when people tell me that I have lost weight, but I have lost very little if anything, I conclude that I must have gained muscle definition, which is a good thing. He agreed!
Regarding the hormones: if this is about HRT, then there weren't more breast cancer deaths in the Women's Health study in the estrogen arm than in the control. There were more cases (not a lot more), but not more deaths. I think estrogen in HRT is really important for us because we take antipsychotics and other medications that can cause tardive dyskinesia over time dropping estrogen levels predispose postmenopausal women to tardive dyskinesia.
I have been on lowest dose estrogen in the form of patches for 2.5 years. In Perimenopause now, a late bloomer here who also finishes late. I learned that HRT is safer and more effective if started earlier, before 60, within 10 years of menopause, and ideally preventatively. So I went on it preventatively. The gynecologist and I looked at the risks and benefits and concluded that with my profile, there were more benefits than risks. Even though there were a few more breast cancer cases in the estrogen arm, there were also fewer osteoporosis cases, and a few other good things. So on balance, it was better to start on it. But I do not have breast cancer genes.