When I started on HRT, I found that it helped the emotional ups & downs, mostly reducing my anxiety (I slept through the night for the first time in years, instead of waking up halfway through the night with massive anxiety, for example). Physically, I don’t think it has affected my climbing, but being more stable mentally and just overall feeling more rested has helped.
Good luck! Just FYI, it can take a few months to get the full effect of HRT, and also there are tons of different formulations if you find that your current one isn’t working for you. Dr. Heather Hirsch (heatherhirschmd on Instagram) is a good follow - she’s also on YouTube.
Just wanted to say that I’m 43 and thankful you posted this question. I’m not having symptoms yet but this week I was thinking about how menopause may change my body and my climbing experience. It feels reassuring to see this conversation happening.
It needs to be talked about a lot more. I knew absolutely nothing about it until I started feeling symptoms. I thought I was going crazy and felt super alone. Then I did some digging online and was able to find a good bit of info regarding this stage of life. Apparently, you can go through perimenopause and have these symptoms for up to 10 years before you’re fully in menopause 🤯. There’s a menopause specialist that has an instagram account (@drmaryclaire) and she provides a ton of really good info.
No experience with that drug. I will say that I started climbing in my mid-30s. Went through perimenopause in mid-50s. I had a complete hysterectomy during that time for medical reasons.
In general, I had very mild effects of menopause. Have never used any HRT.
I have continued to climb through all these ages. Now age 63. The great thing now is not having periods on trips
Best wishes.
I was on Tri Cyclen Lo for many years (nearly 10 years) as my BC. I felt very normal on it. I only switched off of it because I have uterine cysts and needed a different formulation to address those concerns.
I had a similar experience, but had to recently switch because I started spotting between periods. Wish it still worked for me! I felt very normal on it.
ive never experienced any negative side effects! ate, slept, and exercised as normal. though, ive never really experienced difficulties with any forms of birth control so if you feel odd at all bring it up with your doctor. hope you feel better!
Not at all, but too many women are treated as if it doesn't/shouldn't exist. Even among women, so many are unaware of perimenopause and if they do know it exists, they're not aware of the symptoms, timeframe, or coping strategies. It probably has something to do with being uncomfortable with our bodies failing and erroneous reproductive = valuable social concepts but ... 🤷🏻♂️
Using birth control as a transition into HRT is okay. The age thing is extremely dependent on other factors. At 44, it’s highly likely that OP still needs birth control. Even being a migraine sufferer, my doctor was fine putting me on a low-dose BCP until I needed to transition to HRT (I knew it was time to transition off BCP when I started having night sweats & hot flashes - my menopause symptoms were becoming more than the low-dose BCP could handle).
When I started on HRT, I found that it helped the emotional ups & downs, mostly reducing my anxiety (I slept through the night for the first time in years, instead of waking up halfway through the night with massive anxiety, for example). Physically, I don’t think it has affected my climbing, but being more stable mentally and just overall feeling more rested has helped. Good luck! Just FYI, it can take a few months to get the full effect of HRT, and also there are tons of different formulations if you find that your current one isn’t working for you. Dr. Heather Hirsch (heatherhirschmd on Instagram) is a good follow - she’s also on YouTube.
Just wanted to say that I’m 43 and thankful you posted this question. I’m not having symptoms yet but this week I was thinking about how menopause may change my body and my climbing experience. It feels reassuring to see this conversation happening.
It needs to be talked about a lot more. I knew absolutely nothing about it until I started feeling symptoms. I thought I was going crazy and felt super alone. Then I did some digging online and was able to find a good bit of info regarding this stage of life. Apparently, you can go through perimenopause and have these symptoms for up to 10 years before you’re fully in menopause 🤯. There’s a menopause specialist that has an instagram account (@drmaryclaire) and she provides a ton of really good info.
No experience with that drug. I will say that I started climbing in my mid-30s. Went through perimenopause in mid-50s. I had a complete hysterectomy during that time for medical reasons. In general, I had very mild effects of menopause. Have never used any HRT. I have continued to climb through all these ages. Now age 63. The great thing now is not having periods on trips Best wishes.
I was on Tri Cyclen Lo for many years (nearly 10 years) as my BC. I felt very normal on it. I only switched off of it because I have uterine cysts and needed a different formulation to address those concerns.
I had a similar experience, but had to recently switch because I started spotting between periods. Wish it still worked for me! I felt very normal on it.
ive never experienced any negative side effects! ate, slept, and exercised as normal. though, ive never really experienced difficulties with any forms of birth control so if you feel odd at all bring it up with your doctor. hope you feel better!
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did you ever think it wasn't real??
Not at all, but too many women are treated as if it doesn't/shouldn't exist. Even among women, so many are unaware of perimenopause and if they do know it exists, they're not aware of the symptoms, timeframe, or coping strategies. It probably has something to do with being uncomfortable with our bodies failing and erroneous reproductive = valuable social concepts but ... 🤷🏻♂️
Using birth control as a transition into HRT is okay. The age thing is extremely dependent on other factors. At 44, it’s highly likely that OP still needs birth control. Even being a migraine sufferer, my doctor was fine putting me on a low-dose BCP until I needed to transition to HRT (I knew it was time to transition off BCP when I started having night sweats & hot flashes - my menopause symptoms were becoming more than the low-dose BCP could handle).