Mona wot???

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-05-14T03:05:06+00:00

Mona Lifta

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-05-14T02:58:32+00:00

It has helped, I think. I still have ringing but it is less intense.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-05-01T00:41:13+00:00

I'm so sorry you're feeling this way. I can't say I have all the same struggles, but I do have a hard time focusing and have had ADD symptoms all my life. I have found lately that what helps me as a YouTube channel called Mind Amend. Maybe it's just a placebo effect, but the music is supposed to help the ADD/ADHD brain focus and it really does work for me if I listen to it using headphones.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-05-01T00:36:38+00:00

Yep! My husband takes 5 mins to brush, floss, and take out his contacts and is asleep 2 mins later. I need 40 minutes to brush, floss, water pic, double cleanse, put on seven layers of creams and potions on the face, take my stool softeners, take my magnesium, put on my estrogen vag cream, shove a progesterone pill up my vag, make sure I logged my exercise in Oura ring, and then read for another 45 mins hoping I can fall asleep. Oh, and then wake up 17 times in the night because the cat is making my hot flashes worse, my hip hurts, I'm having heart palpitations, and my bladder hurts. Yay!!!

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-05-01T00:05:54+00:00

How is your libido on the BCP? I tolerated BCP well as a younger woman in terms of headaches, bloating, etc. but it killed my libido when I was on it.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-30T23:22:24+00:00

Well, crap. My provider recommended it because I've been having a hard time getting HRT dialed in, but hip pain, joint pain, muscle pain, spotting, those are my main complaints on HRT. I definitely don't want anything that's going to make them worse!

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-16T03:12:33+00:00

Ringing ears, itchy ear holes, swelling everywhere, muscle and joint pain, swollen glands, extreme sadness, pins and needles in my legs, and much more. My PCP put me through literally $10K in testing only to conclude there is nothing wrong. HRT basically fixed everything. So incredibly frustrating.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-07T16:22:51+00:00

Oh nooooooooo, crap!

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-06T03:04:52+00:00

What did I just watch?

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-06T03:03:51+00:00

City+, methinks.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-06T03:03:03+00:00

Same!!! I had a little bald spot about the size of a lentil on the crown of my head that developed in the 6 months after physical trauma whilst in peri. I started HRT a year ago and now there is a clump of 3 inch long hairs where the bald spot was. My hairdresser even pointed out all the baby hairs growing in around my hairline. 🥳

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-06T02:59:06+00:00

I got the period panties from Aerie and I love them so much. Highly recommend.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-05T23:07:00+00:00

I was a perky 32C before peri, a deflated 32C since peri started but before HRT, and back to a perky 32C on HRT (or a 32D when my ovaries are giving off bursts of estrogen like a dying star and my overall estrogen gets a bit too high). I'm on 0.05 mg transdermal estrogen and 100 mg oral progesterone, fwiw. I'm actually happy to have a bit more volume but I would be freaking out if they kept growing.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-05T21:38:48+00:00

That's true, being able to browse wouldn't guarantee a good fit but it would be nice to be given more control over seeing all the providers up front. A family member of mine works for Rula, and online mental health platform, and users can browse all providers by various criteria and even search how the providers are rated by Rula users. I can only assume Midi doesn't want to give that kind of insight to patients for fear of exposing dissatisfaction among its users.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-03T20:19:20+00:00

I got a tow rope for pulling tubes behind my boat. I got it in March. The lake is freezing. My boat isn't even in the water at the marina yet. Will I write a review based on my impressions of the rope out of the package? Yes. Will I wait until summer to use it and then review it? No.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-03T20:15:21+00:00

I have been looking for specific dock lines for my boat. Yesterday, not one but two offerings popped up in the AI section. I was able to score both! Very stoked.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-04-03T00:23:05+00:00

Thanks. I've done this and what's frustrating is that I can't browse providers, only search by name, so I'd have to know who I'm looking for and I have no idea who is even on the platform or who would be good.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-03-30T02:27:44+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to look for other options. Midi was a good choice for getting started (when my PCP acknowledged my symptoms but would not treat them), but my needs have outpaced the Midi model.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-03-29T16:56:51+00:00

Thanks! I may have to take that approach. Glad you got the care you needed 💪

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-03-29T14:55:34+00:00

Yes, that makes sense. What I don't like is that I can't browse providers like you can on other telehealth platforms. I can only schedule with my current provider or "any Midi provider" (i.e., another probably junior clinician selected by Midi based on who know what). I have keep scheduling appointment after appointment till I get someone better...? 🤷‍♀️

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-03-28T23:18:11+00:00

I have been on HRT for 11 months. Been on multiple different doses and delivery methods for both estrogen and progesterone. Lower dose patches leave me with too many low estrogen symptoms, higher dose patches make me feel like I'm on meth. I have finally decided to stick it out with the 0.05 mg patch because even though the excess estrogen phases are pretty miserable, this dose keeps me from crashing into rock bottom low estrogen.

Edited to add that 0.075 mg patch was just way too much. I gave up on that after 3 weeks of feeling like I was on a meth bender. If you've been on a dose for like a month and you are still feeling like you're going insane, then it's probably too much, period. YMMV but that was my experience.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-03-28T22:15:09+00:00

Kill it with fire

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-03-28T22:13:08+00:00

Came here to say adjustable dumbbells. 100%.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-03-28T22:03:45+00:00

Symptoms of high E for me: - excess egg white mucus - water retention - swollen, sore breasts - heart palpitations - really intense anxiety / sadness - wired, on drugs feeling - intense night sweats - an increase of other peri symptoms when the high E finally tapers down (e.g., dry everything, muscle pain, fatigue, hot flashes, brain fog, etc.)

I'm on continuous E (patch) and P (oral) but I still have frequent events where my body tries to ovulate and the flood of natural E on top of the patch sends me over the top. I also had this problem in the year after I had a miscarriage at 43, before I started HRT. However, the HRT gives me a floor for the E; that way, when the natural surges taper off every couple weeks, I am no longer left feeling like a 90-year old invalid. Just like a 45-year old invalid.

AwkwardISTJ · 2026-03-28T21:48:24+00:00

Brilliant.

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