I worry about getting crepey, old-people-legs (sorry, I hope I don't offend anyone) in my 50s and beyond. I'm reading that prevention is key, which is copious moisturization, sunscreen, and retinoids. That was an eye opener. Retinoid on legs! Are folks actually doing this?
For several months, I have been going to several operas, trying to expand my musical horizons and education. Opera is such a colossal experience. Somehow, it amplifies every single emotion threefold. And because my life has been about many intense tragedies, I relate to many of these stories. Opera leaves me gutted and takes much out of me. The worst was Madama Butterfly...
I'm trying to remember what kind of phone call I used it for, but I can't.
Don't know if anyone could relate or understand at all. I'm in mid perimenopause, 46, on HRT.
I have Complex PTSD from childhood abuse, and my go-to coping mechanism was addiction to video gaming, from age 13 to quite recently. The gaming has largely fallen off a cliff, a year or two ago. However, I still miss one game. Now, when I try to login and play it, something happens that never used to happen before. I get the most horrendous stress coursing through my veins, often followed by anxiety and panic attacks; and this in turn affects my mood so much that I enter a state of rage, irritability, and anger at any other person IRL; which ends up with putting me into a severely depressive and oddly hopeless mood I've never experienced before - and I know depression very well. What in god's name?
I started bioidentical HRT last summer, and I'd rather cope with the increased migraines (I use Sumatriptan to get rid of them when they do come), than with not being on HRT. And I'm too nervous about switching to a patch.
Has anyone else decided that the side effect is worth it?
How could it be? A mere 20 minutes? I took it at 8am, when I always take it at 7:40am. And i feel off, disoriented emotionally, weepy, not myself. Is it just my imagination?? How could a mere 5+5+5+5 minutes make such a difference?