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What supplements / diet work for you in perimenopause? No night sweats or hot flushes here-- it's all estrogen surge with inflamed fibroids, tender boobs, bloated, & got to add bitchy! Never expected all this-- it's like PMT that never ends, & revs again right after a period. Ugh! Have tried: progesterone cream, iodine, & Calcium d glucarate ( hard to find sometimes) with just enough relief to not go insane. No joy or difference with phytoestrogens , soy, black cohosh or no dairy. Any one find if birth control pill helped at all? Any advice welcome!

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I don't have any new suggestions, but happy to come commiserate! I just started using progesterone cream a few months ago, and I actually stopped after my surgery a month ago just because I was rubbing it on my stomach mostly and didn't want to do that with my incisions. I wasn't sure it was really helping anyway, but now that I read this post I'm thinking that I've maybe been especially bitchy this past week with PMS and maybe it was helping...

Will be glad to see if anyone else has any good ideas. I think I'll start up with the cream again!

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Thanks Suse! Happy to have company. The progesterone cream helps, but I find it hard to dose properly if cycle all messed up, since only supposed to use for half of it.

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Also taking so much fish oil & evening primrose oil, I should have gills! It helps...

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Oh - good to know about the oils - thanks!

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I went on bio identical hormones and have been on them ever since. I know I should not be on hormones, but they make my quality of life so much better.,

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