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I’ve shared many of your experiences. I started peri menopause not long after I stopped taking drugs and doing sex work. I struggled with depression at that time, too, and my weight was ballooning. Doctors were no fucking use at all. Because of my health history, outside of the STD clinic I was treated like something that was stuck to the bottom of their shoe. In the end I paid to get complete set of blood tests done for myself at 4 points during my cycle, and then shoved the results under the nose of a private GP. An actual diagnosis was a big help, and I felt motivated to start exercising so that my bones didn’t weaken. Once periods had mostly stopped I went on HRT, but again I got bad advice from an NHS GP and was given only enough to keep me alive … it’s only thanks to trans ladies on Lemmy that I actually got the right combo for HRT to feel 100% like myself again, last year. So, tl;dr - we’ve gotta take our own initiative to get proper sound medical care. By supporting each other, and advocating for ourselves with the medical system!