Quick Update

I saw the dietician again. We both agreed the FODMAP diet hasn't worked particularly well. Although i decided the week before that magnesium citrate might be having a laxative effect. So i've ordered a different type of magnesium - magnesium glycinate which is better on the stomach and also some more Better You magnesium oil to rub on my skin. Unfortunately the brand i ordered, didn't seem to help me sleep - i'm not convinced it has magnesium in it as it isn't chalky when i run it under the tap. The Solgar magnesium would get stuck to my skin. So i've sent that one back and found a few good vitamin companies:
metabolics
terranova
together

Went on a course with work and colleagues were ok with me. But i'm finding work relationships much much harder off the HRT and i also made a mistake on Friday, i think because of tiredness. I need to get proper blackout for my bedroom so i can sleep as i have achieved very little in the last 8 months. Hopefully my friend will help me sort this out tomorrow. 

I've decided to start a month long diary also, to describe my feelings and symptoms in detail on each day and see how it compares each month, whether each symptom follows an exact pattern? Then maybe i will try to correlate it with temperature which sort of follows progesterone... I'm about to come on so i will start today...

Yay there's hope!!!

Finally they are starting to take women's hormonal challenges seriously!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2708901/Revealed-The-hormone-gel-banish-depression-women-Its-revolutionary-discovery-lives-countless-women-currently-given-antidepressants-transformed-using-simple-rub-gel-instead.html

"To investigate why this is happening and what is the best treatment, Dr Michael Craig, a psychiatrist, has opened the first female hormone clinic at the Maudsley, a psychiatric hospital in South London and the largest mental health training institution in the UK.  "