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Hello,

2 things-one about PMS the other about post-menopause. I am past PMSing myself however I know a number of women who have used progesterone supplement ie prolief from Arbonne and there are other kinds in health food stores. Do one pump on your skin each day the week before your period. For some woman this has worked miracles.

I am suffering from post-meno anxiety. I have tried bioidentical hormones and the estrogen triggered a huge adrenaline response that took a few months to wind down. Later I tried just progesterone alone and I think this has triggered more adrenaline and cortisol and more anxiety. It's like the chicken and egg question. Is the anxiety from the biochemical affect of the hormones or is my anxiety producing the biochemistry? I think the hormones each time have triggered a cascade of terrible cortisol. Is anyone having these hormones monitored with blood testing? Cortisol levels are very dependent on time of day.

Thanks

Girls! (Depending on your age and/if you're close to appoaching menopause) My PMS stuff got bad at 40ish. I had not suffered from any PMS symptoms before that. None of my doctors recommended HRT. I began peri-menapause in January of 2003. My doctor didn't mention it and I knew nothing of it. He blew me off and wouldn't recommend Hormone Replacement Therapy. Said the Effexor should help with irritability, which it was, but nothing for everything else. 4 years later (in a debilitated state!) another doctor mentioned peri-menopause and other pre-menopause conditions through a friend and told me to look it up. I went to WebMD and THERE I WAS! Among hundreds of thousands of women that go undiagnosed. I was totally shocked. I couldn't belive it. The only cure was a hysterectomy which I demanded and got. I'm past child bearing years. I seriously can't believe the difference! If you are in child bearing years, I was told it was healthier to deal with PMS without HRT or birth control, as getting pregnant was not an option at the time. Also to find and do things that ease the symptoms as much as possible. That's what I did. Those things didn't help much at all. I hope your doctor can help you better than mine did me. Good Luck.