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FRECKLES11376
8/6/06 4:09 P
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| Hi, I am also going through surgical menopause for about a year and a half.My doctor prescribed Effexor to help with my mood swings and hot flashes,it is an anti-depressant,it as worked relly well.I don't use HT i use alot of herbal supplements.I still get hot flashes but not half as bad as what they used to be.
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HI ! i am in surgical induced menopause also and hate it !!!!! I had surgery over 18 months ago and have gained weight, sizes in clothes yet I am doing what I was before the surgery and loosing. I was on hormone therapy but hated the side effects so stopped taking them three months ago,and now these past few weeks have been awful i am in a constant hot flash I swear... I exercise every day, eating so much better but i am not getting any relief from the falshes any ideas ?
 theresa
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LISAPOPE32405
5/8/06 2:03 P
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Yes, it did help. Now my poor cat is depressed....I used to have 2 and I let one go to a good friend of mine because her daughter wanted her and Meekah (my cat) was a handful.....I'm a clean freak and she was getting up on the counters and the table and everything else and I was finding not only her cat hair up there but my other cat's hair (Baxter) which never does that unless he is chasing Meekah. Since I knew my friend would let Meekah have full reign of the house I decided to let her daughter (Lauren who is 3) have her. She loves her too........the only problem is now my cat is depressed and her cat MOW MOW that they've had forever and a day that is on her last life is not happy with them. She'll get used to her but it will take her a minute. They are not mean they just growl and hiss a little bit. You could never believe that there was drama in the animal kingdom also. Well, I hope you are doing well and I will talk to you soon.
Lisa :)
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Hello,
So good to hear that you are feeling much better. Wonders what alittle fresh air and  will do for a person.
Well...take care and be good to yourself.
Annette
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LISAPOPE32405
5/8/06 12:42 A
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I am so sorry for not coming back to the site I had started in the first place. My email just never told me that anyone ever replied to it at all and when you stated that you saw my post I thought you meant on the menopause & weightloss board. I just read what you wrote and I do go to a therapist and a psychiatrist on a regular basis. I have been feeling better lately because of this site.....and the people that seem to understand more about what I'm going through. It helps....my friends will call or my husband and daughter will ask me what is wrong and I'll be in a very depressed state and I will just tell them what it is and that I just want to cry but they don't understand why if I have no actual reason. So, I try to stay in the room until they go to work and then come out here in pajamas and get on the computer and live life talking to you ladies online. I've really been doing better and getting out more. I was turning into a dying plant(I was so pale from not getting out in the sun and fresh air for so long it was really taking a toll on my body). But, seriously I am doing better. I hope that i didn't offend you by not replying to your posts.....I just did not know anyone was coming in here.
Thank you for trying to reach out and help me.
You are a good person and the world needs more people like you in it.
Lisa :)
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Hello again,
Just checking in to see how you are feeling today. I hope that i didn't come across as a know it all in my last post because I'm not. I've just been there done that type of person.
You see.. I go to a therapist weekly to deal with these issues and others and I get my meds(depression,anxiety,etc...)for the psychritrist(SP).
So I felt I could relate to what you were going thru. I have no friends. I only go out for drs appointments. I have lots of physical problems as well.
Enough of me....Just wanted to say hi again and say hang in their. Your family loves you for you. Take it from someone who's been there before.
Have a good day.
Annette
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Hi!
Hold on. I'm here. Now listen to what I am going to say to you very carefully. Every state has their own crisis hotline number. CALL IT. CALL IT NOW. You do not have to give your name or anything. They are there for you to talk to but are run by professionals.
How do I know? Been there. Done that. Yes...I have been right where you are right now. Surgerical menopause. All kinds of crazy thoughts. That was in 1992. I had cerivcal cancer. I thought my life was over then. But after...it was hell on wheels. But here I am now. 2006. Alive and well. Well...working on the well part. There is hope for you as there was for me. I'm not gonna tell you it is gonnabe easy, cause it's not. But i am gonna tell you that you can make it. I did.
Let me be your support buddy if you will let me. I am online most of the time. i will give you my e-mail address if you prefer to talk that way as well.
I still go to counselling for this and other issues. That may be of a help to you. Maybe you can think about this.
I know that at this time it is hard for you to think of yourself as a worthwhile person...but you are. To yourself, your daughter and husband. Try to focus on these things if you can.
I'm not gonna ramble on because you don't need this right now....but I'm gonna leave you with this.
Please call your state's crisis hotline number now.
Will check back up on you later today.
Hugs,
Annette
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LISAPOPE32405
5/2/06 10:10 A
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I am personally having a lot of problems with my surgical menopause....this was all initiated in July and it's almost been a year and due to the hormones I take. I don't really have hot flashes or night sweats but I think that I'd rather that than the severe depression and self worthelssness that I feel now. I'm in a state of shock as to how many times a day a person can plan suicide but I haven't done it yet due to being scared of not being able to finish it and my poor daughter having to either find me or having to live without me. I'm divorced from her father and she does not like him, and married to another man who says that he would take care of her if anything ever happened to me(I don't think he means suicide) but no one can care for her like I can or at least like I could before all this self pity hit me. I want to know if I'm the only one with these problems.......I know that weightloss is also a problem with these hormones but I'm more worried about my uncontrollable insanity right now. I go to a therapist and a psychiatrist and neither of them took me seriously until my last visit with my Therapist and he actually gave me his home phone number. I don't think that I would call anyone in my weakest hour and most shameful to say I'm about to do something that everyone else believes to be stupid and selfish. Especially when I think it's selfish to be around spilling my poor helpless pity on to others. I wish I could just snap out of it and I wish that I knew others that were going through it also. I think that would help and since I'm only 30 I can't find many people that have the same problems. Please if you are out there comment on this for my sanity.
 
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