anxieties with menopauses

marlene21102 susan47122 · 2014-12-27T03:04+00:00

How you feel is how I felt at 48 and meno began ,didn't have a clue what was happening .i just stayed close to home ,felt safer .i to had flu symptoms ,it was summer time and I was sat huddled with a thick cardigan on ,I was shivering with cold .so women do get these symptoms .It just creeps up on you. The palpatations will go down ,slowly your notice they've just stopped when you get this bad anxiety the adrenaline brings the 2 together ,but nothing will happen .best just to sit quiet ,take mind away from it ,just tell yourself over and over it's just hormones doing it .Not easy .Go and see dr ,see what he can do ,I was reading of a female dr who took herself to ER 3 separate times as to palpatations ,as she said as a dr she should have known just goes to prove one thing Susan were all the same dr or not .the more stress you put on it the longer it continues what I've found .The bowel thing is stress again ,lots get what they put as. I B S .Will say cut down on sugars to a minimum ,don't help the anxiety .The mind runs riot ,what hormones do .

kerry91 susan47122 · 2014-12-27T09:07+00:00

Hi Susan,

Sorry you're feeling so bad, I've been there. Marlene is right about the sugar since I've been following a low carb, no sugar diet the anxiety has gone. Sugar also wreaks havoc on your hormones so it stops you from being stable. Look up what excess cortisol does to you during the menopause and you'll have a good idea of what's going on. You can help yourself, try slow paced breathing too, this brings your cortisol down and stops the palpitations. Hang on in there, you're not alone.

jayneejay susan47122 · 2014-12-27T09:48+00:00

Hi susan

Sorry to read about your symptoms right now, i got the upset tum like that, mine was in the mornings, had to run to the loo, no joke.

Mine eased as peri went on, mine was due to taking the cheap magnesium supplements, which was either magnesium oxide or magnesium citrate as they have laxative effects, and as i took my magnesium before bed, in the morning i was as you described running to the loo.

Since i have changed to chelated magnesium bisglycinate all is fine ..

Only mention incase your taking any magnesium

B6 for anxiety is brill

Big hugs

Jay x

sharcerv52408 susan47122 · 2014-12-27T16:57+00:00

Let me tell you what happened to me. My anxiety level went through the roof this week. I started my period Sunday and the Friday before I had to take my 1year old to the doctor and run some other errands. I ran out the house without eating because her appointment was so early. I was fine at the doctors office but went shopping for some shoes for get afterwards. While in the store, I got so overheated and felt like I was going to pass out. I was extremely hungry and felt like I if I didn't eat right then I would drop. I quickly left the shoe store and ran into a sandwich shop and inhaled my food.

Later that afternoon I kept feeling weird like my blood sugar level was off. That night I got the worst panic attack with heart palpitations; two them in a row. It left me feeling so drained.

When my period started I kept having digestive issues. I kept getting this tingling sensation in my upper chest that extended to my left arm. On Christmas Eve I couldn't take it anymore and I went to the ER. They did two EKG's, a chest xray, and ran blood tests. All of them We're negative. Thank God but I was still feeling the effects of all of this. Last night, I was so afraid to go to sleep because I didn't want to have another panic attack.

Today, I feel like it is trying to simmer down. But these symptoms are CRAZY and SCARY!

Ruthie49 susan47122 · 2014-12-27T17:44+00:00

Hi Susan, I feel for you too as I am also going through severe anxiety/depression and a multitude of symptoms right now (I'm 49). I have read so many of these threads - enough to know that these are all common symptoms of peri/menopause - and yet I am STILL convinced at times that something really bad must be going wring in my body because I feel so incredibly strange and awful at times and it just won't go away.

The cinema experience you describe and the bowel symptoms are definitely anxiety. I know it's hard to take and recover from. It's jsut one day at a time. I've had anxiety issues in the past but this peri anxiety feels different. I think the main difference is you cannot predict the panic attacks at all because there is this hormonal rollercoaster setting off adrenalin here there and everywhere. Then on top of that there are all these awful physical symptoms leaving us depleted and more anxious.

I am on the brink of panic right now after another day of feeling spacey and detached with intractable digestion probs and stomach ache. I haven't felt my 'normal' self for two months - every time I go out (or stay in!) I am struggling with how I feel, mentally and/or physically. I just want to be able to forget how I feel, to just live each day UNAWARE of how I feel.

I think Marlene is right - sometimes the best thing to do when you're right in the eye of the panic storm is to just keep telling yourself it's hormones, over and over again. When I'm able to I just try to keep everything as familiar as possible and just keep busy with anything I'm up to doing, even when I feel like I'm just going through the motions of doing it. It's one step and one day at a time but we have to believe this phase WILL pass. Peri, anxiety, depression... none of it can stay the same forever, it WILL shift at some point and we will be in a better place. I keep hoping for this and trying to visualise it too. I also consciously try to remember all the good times I've had and who I was before this hormone storm struck. Keep reminding yourself of the woman you were/are - she is STILL there and waiting to emerge from this suffering. Let's hope 2015 will be the year for it.

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