Heavy, prolonged periods, menorrhagia, fibroids, anaemia

"I have always suffered from extremely heavy, painful and prolonged periods. Treatment in 27 years has ranged from utterly medieval, cautery without anesthesia, to the outrageous - one indifferent medical man suggested I should have a couple of kids, that'll stop it.

Finally, two years ago after several exploratory and perhaps unnecessary surgical procedures, I was diagnosed with menorrhagia, compounded by fibroids and advised to have a hysterectomy.

Since the condition is not life-threatening (although given the amount of painkillers, clothing and bedding ruined, appointments and business meetings canceled or postponed and iron taken to counteract anemia, it has sometimes felt like it), I am reluctant to have radical surgery for a condition which should be treatable in other ways. One specialist suggested I might let nature take it’s course and swap one crisis for another via the menopause.

Then the breakthrough! I had no period for two months, then a third failed to arrive. The doctor ruled out pregnancy but felt I was too young for the menopause. I had my doubts about his diagnosis as I had started to have night sweats, complete loss of libido, foul moods and fearsome tempers.

My poor husband. I became so evil, rows every other day and suggested separating. I would wake regularly between 3 and 4am, clammy and depressed, filled with sadness and often tearful. Symptoms continued into the day and more than once I cut short a meeting or stopped the car to have a good cry for no obvious reason.

In despair I read all I could find on alternative therapies for PMT, menopause and other conditions. Appalled at the lack of knowledge and information available I was relieved there was some hope and help. But where to get the recommended Natural Progesterone Cream?

I saw your advert, received my package and information and after only three days I was beginning to feel human, sleeping through the night with only one hot flush since. Mood and temper fluctuations have settled and, although occasionally crabby, I regard this as quite natural, rather than the onset of a 'severe temper warning' or 'mega row imminent'.

Since using Serenity I feel much more comfortable with myself for the first time in years. I am not yet perfect but I now have the energy to do something about it and can face the future without feeling I am hitting my head against a stone wall.

Yes there are times when I still feel down - but this is more to do with lack of food or exercise than the deep and irrational despair that I was prey to, when suicide seemed the only way out of a situation that had become more pressurised and burdensome than I had thought possible.

I have recommended Serenity to friends and cannot thank you enough for helping me put my life back together. I wish I knew about it years ago."