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   Things have been going okay, but I had gotten to the end of the time I'm supposed to be using the patch (the Rx calls for using it for a month). In an attempt to ward off the Bad Episodes, I...

So let's see...    Tuesday was so-so, Wednesday was GOOD (but I got very sleepy toward the end), and today was okay; J was off so we went out for lunch like we used to B.C. ("Before Child"). I had...

   Went to my gyn yesterday.She told me to use the lower dosage patch along with the higher dosage one when I get hit by such a bad episode. Last night, while I still didn't feel good, I felt okay...

    I had a nice day yesterday, then at 5:30, when we were getting ready to go out to dinner, it hits. And suddenly; the stomach flips and starts rolling around,the anxiety level and feelings of...

Ohmigod, I think it's working!  I started that higher dose of nat'l estrogen the day before Mother's Day, had a BAD Mother's Day, and since then, other than a couple times of having slight little...

   Oh, god. HEre we go.    Tomorrow's a big day; J is taking time off from work to take our daughter and three of her little friends to the Bug Fair at the museum. This is big because J usually...

  Well, although I'm feeling a bit better, I'm certainly not out of the woods yet. Backaches, depression (overcast day doesn't help), feeling hot, then cold, then hot, then cold; it's stuffy, it's...

So it's back.   I started the higher dose of the Vivelle Dot patch yesterday; had little waves of physical symptoms here and there, but not too bad at all, and emotionally I felt fine, like I was...

   Woke up at 4 this am in a pool of sweat -hadn't done that in a while. Spent the morning in bed (again) with everything aching (again) and stomach rolling (again, although admittedly not as badly...

   Got over the cold (finally), although as I told someone else here, I'd MUCH rather have a week of a bad cold than a day of Menopausal Hell.  Speaking of which....though I've had a series of...

   Last night, my back was killing me. I was very, very tired and my stomach was going on and off at level 3 on the Acting Up scale (0 being fine, 5 being Hell).    Today, neither the stomach nor...

Just a quick update:   Had a wonderfully NORMAL day yesterday. I left the house for the first time in 3 days and got a lot of things done. Even made dinner without feeling like I was on Iron Chef....

   Well, after 14 blissful days of being my old self, it hits again.   I woke up Sunday with the pains, the GID, all of it. I warned my family not to count on me, and basically spent the day...

    The worst menopausal symptom I've been having is Gastrointestinal Distress (GID). While it usually comes along with a myriad of other symptoms such as hot flashes, depression, chest and leg...

   I'd finally found a chart that tells me WHAT vitamins I need to take and how much, as well as what is too much, which foods will give me which vitamins, and what will deplete which vitamins.(For...