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[susanlodgerelaxations]

Fabulous response…
Hormones need to be part of EVERY health assessment….
Blood sugar… the lot…

[JudgePettyWAP]

i cannot express how infuriating it was for me to be vulnerable, mindful and honest enough to ask my dr about PMDD possibly playing a role in my "BPD episodes" and is it affecting my Endometriosis just to be dismissed and sent home with a monthly 7 day RX for are you telling me i am suffering from hysterics? FINALLY the information is here and I am able to understand myself. im not broken, the system is.

[yagmurs]

I have been saying this over in our community over Reddit as well, almost 10 days of every month my medicine is useless completely useless

[InJoy]

Simple, many neurotipicals doing research about ADHD. We need more ADHD people researching this stuff.

[meawesome]

Fantastic !! Finally someone start talking about it !!! Im the example of how horrible menopause affects my brain because of luck of estrogen !! Noone belive me when i said that hormones plays the biggest role for us women !

[jmackey]

I started ADHD meds during late perimenopause and have never felt they worked the way I've heard people describe. Energy boost a bit, but not much else. And as someone who has been misdiagnosed for years (so nothing prescribed to me has ever really worked) it has been crushing.
Thanks to both of you for talking about this, bcs I had no idea. Calling my psychiatrist on Monday.

[SusanBurrisOG]

agree. My ADHD was never diagnosed until post-menopause and honestly looking back I can see all of the ADHD traits I had, but there was enough ability to stay focused and organize things that I just scraped by but since menopause, I literally felt like i lost my mind half the timI. now I know I have not but for a while. I was starting to think that I was really losing my mind and might have early onset dementia it was very scary, what is going on in medical world like maybe only adhd people should run the medical world because we’re the only ones who think about these things I don’t know

[Toodle.Pipp]

We're living in the dark ages when it comes to "healthcare", it's been destroyed by greed and big harma.

[sharonanderson-ehon]

Yep menopause has triggered my ADHD going to the doctors next week to get this sorted. Thank you for sharing

[therealist]

On Reddit, I’ve seen countless comments about the lack of effectiveness with their medications due to this.

[missydavis]

I have PMDD. Now I believe in in perimenopause. Around that time I get super spaced out. My ADHD is amplified big time! I get completely anxious and overwhelmed! I can't even explain how it effects me.

[Nusaybah]

As a woman it has been difficult to get a diagnosis because our hormones changes every month and we are not taken seriously.

[emersa.productions]

I knew I there had to be a link!!!! We need more research!! Like yesterday...like 20 years ago....

[april-tui]

This is fascinating and frustrating at the same time, thank you for this conversation.

[gldnsunrising]

Yep. Diagnosed almost 4 yrs ago in my mid 40's, and now of course about me since forever, down to the teeniest detail, it's OBVIOUSLY been adhd since 1st grade, but when I stopped having mensus all together 5 years ago, I can absolutely confirm that all of those things that were already SOOO freakn bad, then took even more of a massive nosedive down the crapper.

[katarinam]

The health system has never been fair to women!!!! Its really upsetting!!!

[tinselstar]

Yep. 2 weeks out of every month ADHD meds don't work. When I go through menopause, it's going to be brutal. On my previous meds, they only worked while I was on progesterone only birth control which I stopped, then those meds stopped. Tried a few different meds and found one that sorta works off birth control. Also I'm Autistic and very sensitive to side effects from all medications, not just ADHD. Apparently it's not an uncommon issue in ASD people, women especially

[lunarennui]

This is huge, and the really heartbreaking thing is that it's not a surprise at all, and it probably won't be addressed in large ways, just like any other kind of health care for women. Once again we need something different. How long until it's important to prescribers and doctors? One day closer, hopefully, for each time someone hears this, says this, and someone else listens.

[warriormamma]

Yes! Just recently was told that perimenopause causing very low estrogen is causing a lot of my issues. Got diagnosed with ADHD at 44 and now 2.5 yrs later and trying all the stimulant and non stimulant meds without relief, as they ramp up my anxiety and I am on highest dose of those meds, and guess what? Birth control pill has greatly diminished new onset depression, lessened ADHD & anxiety not to mention again issues calmed down and overactive bladder is hardly an issue. Libido is back and headaches gone. If half the world roughly is female why aren’t we studying the differences female hormones make on all aspects of our health!?

[elizabethlyons]

So true. Menopause upturned my adhd treatment, taking years to figure it out.