66 Peri menopause / Menopause Symptoms you may experience which may help some ladies
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SIXTY-SIX PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS: Part one 1 - 49
These are very real physical changes and conditions. Some symptoms alarm a woman that she may be suffering from a serious disease. Perhaps you know the more common ones related to menopausal symptoms in this list. But many of these may surprise you, as they have not been typically associated with this normal physiological transformation.
1. Change in Menstrual Cycle, Cycles may get closer together or farther apart, lighter and shorter in duration or much heavier, lasting longer than one has been accustomed to. Menses may seem to take forever to begin with dark spotting for days until you actually flow, or you might feel like you have your menses every two weeks.
2. Menstrual Flooding can come on with sudden onset and feel like you may hemorrhage to death. Or it can be a gradual build up just when you think your menses will end and you start gushing for days. Flooding commonly accompanies the woman with uterine fibroids as she transits into menopause.
3. Headaches, Migraines, especially before, during or at the end of your menses debilitate and radically interferes with normal functioning.
4. Decreased Motor Coordination, Clumsiness, almost begins to make the woman who experiences this feel like she is certainly less than graceful during perhaps an already awkward period in her life.
5. Lethargy, a persistent feeling sluggishness physically and mentally, that seems to negate ones ability to do much.
6. Physical Exhaustion , and Crushing Crashing Fatigue that can come on so suddenly and grip you into feeling like you will collapse unless you stop this instant.
7. Exacerbation of any Chronic Illness or Existing Condition transpires as hormones decline or deviate from their normal balance.
8. Insomnia, this includes a new or unusual pattern of either difficulty falling asleep, or dropping off to sleep for a few hours and then awakening with the inability to return to sleep.
9. Sleep Disturbances sometimes are from nightmares, night sweats, or just a vague sense of restlessness keeping you up or disrupting your precious revitalizing retreat from this realm of responsibilities.
10. Night Sweats often begin between a woman?s breasts, initially a night or two before her menses, waking her from sleep, later more profoundly disturbing with up to total body saturation, followed by damp or sweat drenched chills.
11. Interference With Dream Recall interrupts the sense of normal sleep, if you are someone accustomed to vivid or at least some detailed memory of your dreamtime.
12. Muscle Cramps can occur anywhere in the body from legs to back to neck, and sometimes reflects the need for more calcium, or simply that your progesterone levels are too low.
13. Low Backache often worsens before or during menses, but if your hormones remain at low levels, you can experience it on a regular basis.
14. Gall Bladder Symptoms of pain, spasms and discomfort felt in the right upper abdominal quadrant under the ribs, which may be accompanied by belching, bloating, and intolerance to certain foods reflect the increased liver load with declining hormones.
15. Frequent Urination, or sensations that mimic urinary infections is a disturbing symptom often unrelieved by actual urination. It is often experienced as the sensation of needing to urinate all the time, even immediately afterwards.
16. Urinary Incontinence, the uncontrollable and spontaneous loss of urine, or the Urge for Incontinence, can occur suddenly or feel continuous, and not only in response to coughing, sneezing, jumping or running.
17. Hypoglycemic Reactions happen when suddenly your blood sugar crashes and you must have food now.
18. Food Cravings, often for sweets or salty foods, but can include sour or pungent foods.
19. Increased Appetite, especially at night and after dinner contributes to that unusual and unwanted weight gain.
20. Dark Circles Under Eyes can also be caused by adrenal exhaustion and thyroid dysfunctions, but no amount of sleep seems to eliminate it.
21. Joint and Muscle Pain, Achy, Sore Joints, Muscles and Tendons, which sometimes develop into actual carpal tunnel syndrome, or give rise to the questioning of other disease possibilities.
22. Increased Tension in Muscles demonstrates itself in those hunched up shoulders as you work or talk about anything uncomfortable, along with promoting lower back pain and a stiff neck.
23. Increased Hair Loss or Thinning anywhere on body, including your head, armpits, pubic area.
24. Increase in Facial Hair especially under your chin, or along your jaw line. It may be defined by generalized hair growth, or a specific and coarse single strand of hair that pokes out, even curls.
25. Unusually Hair Growth, around Nipples, between Breasts, down your back, places where your hair was finer, less coarse.
26. Acne, quite disturbing to any woman who dealt with this in adolescence and never thought it would recur.
27. Infertility causes grief in the woman who postponed pregnancy in her earlier years and now wishes to conceive, carry to term a healthy baby, and discovers she is unable to do so.
28. Loss of Breast Tissue begins with the decrease of progesterone production. Women often feel as though their breast have become empty sacs devoid of their normal fullness, with or without sagging.
29. Breast Soreness/Tenderness/Pain/ Engorgement and swelling, occurs particularly a few days to one week before bleeding actually begins, which usually potentiates complete relief of any pain or swelling.
30. Painful, or tender nipples have been described as this exquisite localized pain only in the nipples and suggests estrogen excess.
31. Cold Extremities feels quite strange especially in the presence of a hot flash, the combination of which is not impossible.
32. Being Accident Prone, bumping into things, not even realizing it until the bruise reveals itself later and then lacking the ability to recall the causative incident feels perplexing and a little scary at the prospect of something more damaging.
33. Hot flashes initially may be described as mild to severe flushes of heat waves, and for some women these evolve into intense outbreaks of sudden heat with sweating and turning bright red all over.
34. Loss of Sexual Energy, our Libido, can be marked by a gradual or sudden disinterest in sex, to the development of an actual aversion.
35. Painful Sex often described as if one?s vagina would tear open at the point of penetration along with feelings of abrasion during intercourse.
36. Vaginal Dryness, Irritation, sometimes accompanied by a consistent unusual discharge - typically odor free, negates a woman?s ability to be sexually active, or able to enjoy or be comfortable in her body.
37. Dizziness, feeling lightheaded and the loss of physical balance, and even a bit wobbling at times, requires pause in movement to prevent falling over or deepening into vertigo or feeling faint.
38. Ringing in the Ears, Tinnitus, can be experienced as a pulsing sensation, a whooshing sound, an almost musical or buzzing sound with a fuzzy sensation.
39. Abdominal Bloating comes on suddenly often after eating, or seems to be all the time, and can be visibly evident making you feel that you look like you are pregnant.
40. Weight Gain disturbs most women, particularly when it seems to happen over a couple of days, settles in the waist, buttocks and thighs, promoting a visceral thickening from the waist down, the classic middle-aged figure.
41. Fluid Retention, Edema, commonly with swelling in the legs and ankles, though not limited to this area and it is unrelieved by urination.
42. Palpitations or Heart Racing usually comes on suddenly, without warning or provocation, and dissipates spontaneously. The experience can be so wild and intense that a woman may become alarmed and wonder if she is having a heart attack.
43. Irregularities in your Heart Rate may feel more like your heart has just done a flip-flop or skipped a beat.
44. Constipation/Diarrhea, intermittent or alternating, results from declining hormone levels, which increase the demands on liver function and alters intestinal motility.
45. Tendency towards Candidiasis can increase, even if you have no prior known history ? and if you do, it may worsen.
46. Gastrointestinal Distress, Increased Flatulence, Unrelieved Gas pains, Indigestion, Nausea all can reflect intestinal changes due to hormonal imbalances.
47. Slow Digestion often goes along with the bloat ? what previously took four to five hours to digest, now seems to take all night. It seems worse in the evenings.
48. Lack of Appetite may be experienced as more of a lack of interest in food, going to the frig and standing there with the door open and staring blankly. Feeling completely uninspired, you busy yourself with something else and forget that you need to eat.
49. Changes in Body Odor especially disturbing when it seems to focus in the groin area, but can be anywhere on the body.
50. Puffy Eyes, not only from sleep disturbances, but also can accompany low progesterone.
51. Facial Pallor alternating with Facial Flushes is often intermittent with hot flashes.
52. Flare up of Arthritis worsens with low progesterone levels and increase sugar intake.
53. Loss of Bone Density, Osteoporosis, is not only an elderly woman?s disease, though it seems to develop over an extended period and is triggered by the decline of hormone production.
54. Dry Hair, Change in Skin Tone, Integrity, and Texture, becomes more wrinkled, and may begin the thinning process.
55. Changes in your Fingernails characterized by easy breakage, bending, cracking and getting softer.
56. Itchy, Crawly Skin with a strange sensation like insects crawling around under the skin ? quite different than the dry skin feeling.
57. Muscle tone seems to slack and sag, and loose its previous response to normal exercise.
58. Pelvic Pain can be random and independent of cycles and may feel continuous for some women.
59. Dry, Itchy Eyes felt in the deep posterior aspect of the eye socket, as well as superficially.
60. Teeth Aching or the experience of a strange sensation in one?s teeth or gums, often accompanied by an increase in bleeding gums.
61. Change in the normal Tongue sensation, which can be accompanied by a feeling of burning in your tongue and roof of mouth, malodorous breath or change in breath odor, and/or a bad taste in your mouth.
62. Memory Loss or Lapses in time, makes one feel disoriented and less focused, especially when you go into another room to get something specific and seconds later cannot remember what you went to retrieve.
63. Feeling Faint for no known reason (this does not include standing up too quickly)
64. Tingling in Extremities not only feels weird and like your hands or feet are falling asleep, but if persistent can be a symptom of diabetes, B12, potassium or calcium deficiency, or a compromise in blood vessel flexibility.
65. Sensation of Electrical Stimulation,or Shock occurring in the tissue under the skin, and may signal you that a hot flash will begin.
66. Increase and worsening of Allergies occurs as hormones become imbalanced, so can our immune system.
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Junglechicken jayneejay
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Thank you everyone for your kind wishes about my father.
?It hasn't sunk in yet that he is gone, and probably won't for a long time.
JC xx
tina00239 Junglechicken
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Hi hun, only just seen your post. I know exactly how you are feeling I lost my dear mum back in October last year. I held her hand until the end and her youngest grandson was there too. I still cant talk about it without crying as she was my best friend and confident up until Alzheimers took her from me. She received poor care in a local hospital and 2 weeks after discharge she was gone. I think about her every day and miss her so much as she was the last member of my immediate family left. I lost my dad in 1988 and my only brother in 2011 so now I"m all thats left. I am lucky to have a good partner and 2 good sons who all support me through all of this. I dont think I could cope without them. But know this I believe we will see our loved ones again as I have had some strange experiences through my life that cannot be explained away with logical explanations. So hold onto that we will all reside in gods house or whatever you like to call it one day so do not despair my friend. Your dad and my mum are in a better place where there is peace and no suffering. Lots of love and hugs to you at this sad and horrid time. XXX
KikiP jayneejay
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Tests are still coming back normal but curious if anyone has experienced slightly swollen lymph nodes in the groin area. Just appeared today, not really swollen but I am hypersensitive to everything right now sooooI it feels off. I am 4 days from supposedly starting my period. Anyway just wondering if this is a perimenopause thing?? You know I can handle the slight headaches and the mood swings and the every now and again night sweats, and the 10 day period and the 3 days periods BUT THE eye symptoms, the heart symptoms, the possible lymph node symptoms, these things literally can throw me in a state of panic and then anxiety.
Thank you ladies.
maria_03422 KikiP
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Guest jayneejay
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hello everyone,
Please let me know if you get this I haven't receive
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Keljo48 jayneejay
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Hi all,
I am back with my myriad of issues. The main issue for this week is: I still have the burning/irritation in the vaginal area. I took Flagyl for 7 days for a BV and I feel like it didn't help but caused me nothing but stomach and bowel issues. That med is truly evil and apparently pointless for me.
I have that low pelvic cramp back again. It is like it is my uterus. Ultrasound says that other than a retroverted uterus and a fibroid cyst my uterus looks normal. (It doesn't feel normal!) My ovaries are twinging less but a week ago they were going at it, like their last hurrah and they were letting me know it! I am so depressed. I am sure my symptoms are probably peri/ menopause or post but it still sucks. My gyno check my thyroid and my FSH level. My thyroid is normal, my FSH level was 86.4 . She noted is consistent with menopause. I read that level is post menopause. But I have only had two FSH test in the last 2.5 years. One in the beginning with my GP and she said it was normal, and then this most recent test. My pap and mammo was normal. I have had two ultrasounds done. One at the ER and one just this past Wednesday at my GYNO women's group. The firs one they didn't find my right ovary. My left one seems normal. The ultrasound tech Wednesday found my right one, and I joked and said is it shriveled and hard to find. She said it is smaller which is normal for someone who is dying from menopause. (That last bit of drama was my own add in). Because at times I feel like I am dying. My husband keeps saying "Do you want to go to the ER?" No! I don't WANT to, I mean pretty soon they are gonna have to name a wing after me or at the least I will be given a usual room. Not to mention it is hours of my life that leads test that tell me nothing. They offered me morphine for pain on my last visit. No thanks! I feel out of control as it is. I cannot even handle caffeine.
When did I become this person who cannot function because of these debilitating symptoms? They just keep coming and it's wearing me down to a blubbering mess. Then there is this crushing fatigue, I think because I am not sleeping long or well and that doesn't help with my inability to cope.
I read all of your post and though it makes me feel like I am not alone...sometimes the futility of it all just makes me cry. I cry for me and I cry for all of you. I look around at women my age and a bit older and they seem to be "living life" and there is me this shuffling emotional menopausal zombie.
Thank you for putting up with all my ranting and ramblings,
I truly wish you all symptom relief, perfect health and happiness.
jacqueline06286 Keljo48
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elaine16907 Keljo48
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What is supposed to be a natural change to our bodies is simply an onslaught and attack that challenges us every waking day through to night. I empathize the individual challenges we are facing. I know it’s ridiculous, but I feel so scared of my own body and live in fear that with all the symptoms I’m experiencing my body will just stop working at any moment.
I read, listen and watch reports of how women have completely resolved their Menopause symptoms by using HRT and feel their lives have been transformed – I hope and pray that I will have such an experience too.
Like you I hope you and us all find some resolve and better health that we can begin to lead a quality life soon X
jacqueline06286 Keljo48
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How do you feel today I have fatigue every day some times I feel dizzy my body is just not the same.
Keljo48 jacqueline06286
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I feel fatigued and just wore down with the onslaught of symptoms. I feel like they are just chasing each other around my body.
Keljo48 elaine16907
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Elaine,
I completely understand! I sometimes feel like my body is shutting down on me. I am not a candidate for HRT because of blood pressure and past heart issues. I hope if you go that route, you find relief.
I am so desperate for the stomach issues to stop and what feels like my gallbladder (I have a very slow gallbladder) I drank beet juice. I hate beets. It was awful. It worked in the past. Supposed to thin the bile, I believe. I am not getting any relief as of yet. Feels like a knife in my left side. I really honestly don't think I will survive another year of like this. I hate how negative that sounds. But when hit with multiple things at once, I cannot even function normally. Ugh.
Peace and relief to you. X
mary27278 Keljo48
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Hi keljo48 I definately understand what you mean. I love to come on here even though I'm on the perimenopause fb forum also. But the women on there can't seem to symphatize to what I'm experiencing. The most of them have only hot flashes and few symptoms, or if they try something it usually works for them therefore, I get tired of complaining on there. So here i am on here again. I know what you mean about the stomach issues, the stomach issue seem to be what brings my other issues on. Like you, ive tried so many things, its like i just want to pull it out. These symptoms definately are mind boggling...I hope you get relief real soon.
jacqueline06286 Keljo48
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Do you have Facebook
jacqueline06286 Keljo48
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tina00239 mary27278
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Hi Mary, I too am on more than one forum, I began peri probably 7 or 8 years ago but never put 2 and 2 together! However I am now in full meno at 54 almost 55 years old. I started my periods at 8 years old, precocious puberty is its name and had troublesome periods and ovary disease all my life. I prayed for it to all come to an end. Ever heard the expression be careful what you wish for. My goodness if I had just known what was going to happen to me I wouldnt have wished for it. Even top dose hrt isnt dealing totally with symptoms so I'm on vit supplements aswell to try and deal with it. You see not all of us in full meno lose all the peri symptoms yes they may lessen abit but they dont necessarily go away. I am surprised that you dont feel that the ladies on the meno forum give you enough empathy as I have never experienced lack of empathy from anyone that I have had contact with. Remember that they are going through their own personal hell just as you are and maybe the questions that you asked were not something they could answer or help with. Alot of the symptoms can be helped with a good peri/meno vitamin supplement preferably a high strength one. Vits D and B complex are important as is evening primrose oil for touchy boobs and valerian to relax and calm you especially at night crushed up and added to a warm nightime drink. I hope I have been of some help to you I hope that I have and dont be too quick to judge us on the meno forum. We are as supportive as we can be to whoever joins us. Lots of love XXX
tina00239 elaine16907
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lexie41068 jacqueline06286
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elaine16907 tina00239
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Thanks for your reply. There is truth to what seems to be a belief of a ‘miracle cure’ with HRT and would imagine for the majority us women the ups and downs during the phase of life will continue. Your right about the reality of living with less intense symptoms maybe what it looks like for most and our psychology of accepting this a challenge in its self. I hope not to be or present ongoing negativity in my post and would like to use this forum essentially for understanding symptoms as well as hopefully sharing good experiences from using alternatives or tips! I’m in the very early stages of using HRT so don’t know what to expect with results but I do know that it that I am more conscious than ever to take care holistically my entire wellbeing with introducing supplements and better diet to ‘support’ the deficiencies brought about by perimenopause. Also, my gut determination of trying to lead a better-quality life for not just me but my wonderful 9-year daughter is very much at the centre of my world.
I respect your honesty in what is living with menopause as oppose to curing it I guess!
It seems some people can relate to others more of there symptoms and experiences that is inevitable, but I think we perhaps can empathise with all without exclusion!
Thanks for your words and openness and love and hugs to you also X
Keljo48 jacqueline06286
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Jacqueline,
Sorry, I don't have Facebook. I used to have an account years ago but closed it maybe six years ago or more.
X
jacqueline06286 Keljo48
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tina00239 elaine16907
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Keljo48 mary27278
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Hi Mary,
I get hot flashes rarely, they seem to come in spurts. But it seemed that was all I ever remember hearing from women in my family, hot flashes. I feel duped by that. How great it would be just to have hot flashes. That was what I used think menopause was -hot flashes and no periods.
I feel like my hormones (or body) has crashed at the beginning of this year. Then it is one thing after another or worse is at the same time. I think part of my stomach issue is from the Flagyl I took for the BV that didn't seem to help anyway. It gets so I am afraid to eat anything to make it worse! I am the epitome of complaining lol. I could probably change me name to Complainer. I am just beyond my wits end.
I also notice to that my tolerance for discomfort and pain has diminished as my symptoms keep smacking me. I just feel I cannot take it anymore partly because there doesn't seem to be any relief in sight for me, and partly cause I am just beaten down with all this. When I have a "good day" I grab it with both hands, but that is so rare before some new symptom smacking at me again.
I too hope you find relief. X
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tina00239 elaine16907
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elaine16907 tina00239
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I have an appointment next week with the gyneacologist and have been noting down my ongoing symptoms along with any changes since taken Femonstone HRT tablets (just over a week) per the prescription given by my GP. As Im still having regular but shorter periods and hope to go over to the patches instead. I hope the consultant will support the best treatment plan, and supplements as you say to boost my wellbeing too.
Thanks for your refreshing encouragement X
elaine16907 tina00239
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Best wishes to you also XXX
Keljo48 jacqueline06286
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I still am just so wore down and tired. I Trying to up my protein, I avoid caffeine. Just drank a plant based protein shake...that was interesting.
I gave up Facebook because of family drama that was playing out on Facebook and I didn't want involved or needed that extra in my life. I got tired of it and I suspended my account. I have never felt compelled in all the years to open the account back up, though there are times like when you asked about it that I wish I would open it again.
jacqueline06286 Keljo48
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Have you looked into chronic fatigue or adrenal fatigue, are you tired every day
tina00239 elaine16907
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Keljo48 jacqueline06286
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Well, I am tired everyday. I think it is mainly because of symptoms not giving me relief enough to have a good nights sleep. IDK. Worry is also a vicious culprit. My current gallbladder issue I believe was brought on by high fat magnum ice cream bars over indulgent (I am my own worse enemy and stupid apparently) It was horrendous for several hours three days ago and I am still suffering from gallbladder issue more mild but it's there just the same. I have cut out most of the fat out of my diet to give my gallbladder a rest. Doing occasional shots of beet juice (bleh). I was scheduled to have it removed two years ago but didn't care for surgeon's attitude so I cancelled. I have slow digestion. I have laryngopharyngeal reflux. (LPR) which I can manage with somewhat trying to watch what I eat and drinking alkaline water. All of this started a few years ago. I am suspicious that it perimenopausal hormone fluctuation might be the culprit. I am tired everyday. I have not looked into adrenal fatigue or chronic fatigue. I have had about every blood test and comes back normal. I cannot figure out if I am more relieved by that or confused. The hctz (diuretic) in my bp meds dehydrates me if I don't watch it and drink enough water to compensate. I think that causes my dry mouth.
I do know that worry and stress raises the cortisol level and that can in turn cause a whole host of issues.
Worry and stress are hard to break and as effective as my dog trying to catch her tail. But like her I can't seem to stop. So again I am my own worst enemy.
I used to be the "just roll with it" kind of person years ago. (The very feature I find annoying in my husband now.) But then I became a Marine's wife and spend the next 25 years struggling to fit into different locations, slowly becoming more isolated (no children), then the stress and worry that comes with a husband in that line of work and having to take over every minute detail. Then my husband retired, found a job in the next state over (about 2 hours away) and lived in a condo during the week and came home on the weekends for about 3 years. So I was even more isolated. In that timeframe I (unknown to me at the time) I now believe I recklessly galloped into perimenopause. I ended in the hospital for not taking care of my very high bp. Was told by a nurse I had Congestive heart failure. It was an acute attack only according later to my Cardiologist. But the mental damage was done. I believe I suffered from ptsd from that whole thing.I almost died. I started worrying about my health. Then more symptoms started cropping up and I didn't know what any of that meant. My old GP tried to put me on antidepressants. It made it worse. So I couldn't take them. I had anxiety attacks, heart palpatations, I was 44 at the time and NO ONE mentioned anything about menopause. My old Gyno later time mentioned perimenopause while doing my pap. I thought, "What is this new illness I might have?" She said no more about it. I let it go, and we sold our house and we bought a house close to my husbands work. We had to learn to live together full time again. (That was fun) My feeling and moods became more erratic, and then while searching for some of the issues I had, I found this site. I felt...vindicated. I AM NOT INSANE!! Well, not totally, just bouts of it.
I am rambling Jackie, sorry.
The fatigue...would I say its chronic at the moment, yes. But this year has been rough so far. With losing our one dog two weeks ago with liver cancer. Her sister is now all alone so the worry about her depression and grief is hard to watch and worry over. Not to mention coping with my own, (my pets =my fur kids) Then if you read my ordeal with my GP and treatment fiasco for a BV. in earlier posts. I still have that issue. Flagyl for a week that has left my stomach and bowels thinking they never will be normal. The uterus low ache cramp feeling, gut issues. leg pain, breast pain, headaches, dry skin, acne and this annoying vagina/vulva irritation. UGH! I mean it just keeps coming, some are new, some old nemesis. They ease only to return bringing friends. I feel like if I could just sleep through the rest of this menopause BS I might just come out all right. Well, I would be well rested at least. I suffer from brain fog a lot lately. Chronic crying. (That has lessened, maybe because I get dehydrated. lol)
I told my husband I don't feel I can drive any distance without feeling overwhelmingly sleepy. So now he drives me most everywhere. The added bonus to that is I can doze and then critique his driving skills (or lack there of )
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So fatigue is a daily battle for me lately. I just read the chronic fatigue symptoms and I don't know if it is me yet. I am unsure about the adrenals. I really have been abstaining from google symptom checker because it adds to my stress.
Sorry for the TMI. I am an anomaly in my reticent family and they don't know what to do with me and my weird humor. As you can all tell, I am very open (probably too much). Scarily it isn't my worse flaw. lol
x
Keljo48 jacqueline06286
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My lengthy reply/comment/complaint is being moderated. I need to learn to keep my word count down. lol
But I just looked up adrenal fatigue and yes I think this is me! I need a serious lifestyle overhaul. Diet and this constant loop of stress. I mean I am not just talking peri symptoms stress. But life stresses, and rotten luck stuff that has hit us in the last couple months.
I wouldn't have thought anything about that, thank you.
XX
mary27278 Keljo48
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Keljo48 mary27278
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Mary,
I had a HIDA scan done a couple years ago because of the constant right side ache that started off severe. I cannot remember if it affected my stomach or not then. My GP thought it might be gallstones so she ordered the test. In basic they inject a radioactive dye into you and the gallbladder slowly takes it up and they take images of how and when this dye is absorbed by your gall bladder. It is painless and very easy. It was done at my hospital and very relaxing environment. My test said my GB was working at 15%. My GP recommended me to a surgeon to have my gallbladder removed. The surgeon started off the conversation by asking me why I was there. ??? Like it was a trick question? IDK. I felt like saying oh I'm here for a tummy tuck but while your there could you remove my gallbladder? lol. His first comment was that it is possible that he might remove the wrong thing (yikes) and then implied it was up to me to have it removed or not. He poopooed the HIDA test. I was flabbergasted. At my husbands urging ,I did make the appt, but then called and cancelled. My "gut" said this wasn't the surgeon for me. My issue got better and I didn't have any problems for a long time. Until now.
So what I am experiencing now is upper stomach pain/ache and right side (pretty sure it is my gall bladder) pain/ache. I over indulge in these deliciously deceptive ice cream bars about umm 4 days ago? I hadn't had anything like that in forever. I remember why now. Fat and slow gallbladders DO NOT MIX. I don't know if the medication flagyl I had just finished for a BV was the catalyst, I don't know if it is hormones or a horrible cocktail of all of this combined. But my upper stomach area and my right side are still plaguing me. Not as severe as it was the next day after my indulgence. I was sweating and doubled over, with loose stool and bouts of diarrhea. Strangely a hot shower helped considerably. I am half afraid to eat anything. I check the fat content in anything that enters my mouth. As I said in an earlier post I drank beet juice, just two times in the past 4 days. It has helped. I also take a probiotic every day. It has helped with the bowels. My symptoms are easing. I just have to baby my system along enough to forgive me. I am worried it might be some issue with my pancreas now. I will probably have to make an appt with my GP and maybe have the HIDA test again. I never know what to do anymore.
I can just feel my GP's eyes rolling at me. I am still suffering from the vaginal irritation. I am a walking, talking struggling pile of symptoms that has no relief. I would gladly trade all of this for some good old fashioned hot flashes. I wish there was a menopause retreat somewhere I could just go stay at for a month or two, or even two weeks.
I hope you get to feeling better. X
karen_40920 tina00239
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I just do t want to get old I’m only 39 so your post has helped thank u because I really can’t cope not just words thanks
jacqueline06286 lexie41068
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Hi Lexie I hope you're feeling better I'm still with the fatigue in the sluggish and now stomach issues for me aches and pains muscles