Forgot to introduce myself. 49 yr old mom of 2 adult children. I’m pretty sure I’ve been experiencing perimenopause for 3 years. Thought I had wan autoimmune disease. I Love working out and strength training, I use it for mental health and of course to look and feel good. I got to a point where I not only lack motivation, but can’t recover properly and feel weak and fatigued. This is soul crushing to me! Everyone keeps telling me I’m just getting older and it’s normal. Nope! It doesn’t change over night like that! I hate not feeling like myself and not feeling good, all while doing all the things that are supposed to make me feel good. I’m not gonna roll over and take it! If I can do something about this, why wouldn’t I??? So don’t tell me this is normal and every woman gets through it and I will too! …ok, rant over. Thanks for listening.

Hi all, I’m new here. I’ve been monitoring hormones for almost 1 year. I had to rule out a few other odd health things before beginning HRT. I’m now ready to do so and found out I have a very small fibroid that has never given me trouble. My naturopath says she doesn’t think I should take estrogen since it can feed fibroids 🙄. I’ve been deep diving and found that other women have been using estrogen even with fibroids. Does anyone here have experience with this? TIA

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