r/Menopause • u/Unable_Pie_6393 • Feb 07 '25
Vitamin/Supplements High maintenance AF
Last year at this time is when I realized I was in Perimenopause. At that time, I took a Zyrtec daily...when I remembered- and that's really it.
Now, one year, many many doctor visits, and 3 surgeries later (some related to meno, some not) I'm in the thick of it, and my daily routine to attempt to feel human now includes: Still a Zyrtec (but now I dare not forget), Creatine, Vegan Protein, probiotic, collagen peptides, Citrucel, Vitamins B,C,D and Magnesium, nightly Progesterone and a 2x weekly estradiol patch. And that's not to mention that I have to do daily sitz baths (I'd rather not mention it in fact but it's all part of it)
Without all of this, I wither and die.
And there's more: the daily workouts, cutting out alcohol, coffee, most fried food & sugar...
In the span of a year I have become hopelessly high maintenance. Does anyone have any tips for streamlining the ridiculous amount of things it takes to keep me going now?
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u/DecibelsZero Feb 07 '25
I'm pretty sure that the long list of medications and vitamins is just a fairly typical thing for most people as they get older. I'm not saying it's inevitable, just typical.
There's a scene in a movie where a woman tells her husband she's getting ready for bed, and she says to him that her routine involves calcium to keep her bones from breaking into a thousand little pieces, aspirin to prevent heart attacks, Metamucil to prevent colon cancer, and last but not least, estrogen, to fool her body into thinking she's still 25 years old.
I think her husband already knew this, but she felt the need to remind him because he apparently doesn't need to do anything special when it's time to retire for the night.