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Anxiety? Perimenopause? Both? Overwhelming Physical Symptoms.

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wearykitty
wearykitty

So....I'll try to be brief. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder last March, after suffering a panic attack while traveling for business. Since then, I've had a multitude of daily physical symptoms...dizziness/lightheadedness, body aches, headaches, insomnia, night sweats, increased body temperature, feeling weak in my limbs, general fatigue, shakiness....you name it, I've had it. I've just about worn out my welcome at my GP's office, I've been there so often....I've been to the emergency room four times, had an MRI, multiple ECGs, countless rounds of bloodwork, an upper endoscopy...everything comes back clear. So why do I feel so sick all the time? I did have my hormone levels checked, and my doctor confirmed that I'm at least perimenopausal (I'm 45 years old)....could all of these symptoms (and truly, they occur daily) be related to perimeopause? I've developed a serious issue wtih health anxiety due to all of this, because I can't accept that these symptoms are harmless...I'm convinced that something catastrophic is wrong with me. Help!!!

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  • monique_93857
    monique_93857 wearykitty

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    Omgosh thank you for posting today I have been feeling so crappy anxiety the worse today also my allergies kicked in full force have you experienced the stuffy nose along with mouth watering like crazy Lord so many symptoms it drives me kookoo for Coco pops my gosh I have been just going through it
  • amy16129
    amy16129 wearykitty

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    All of this plus losing my job of 5 years as a dog groomer that my owners and bosses bragged on me to everyone and loved me like family only to let me go because I couldn't work as fast as the younger girls ... I feel like I'm going crazy ... No one understands ... I just want God to take me out of here
  • adam47430
    adam47430 wearykitty

    Posted

    Many of these symptoms can be caused by a thyroid disorder. Please get thyroid checked, blood test with antibodies. Good luck.
  • Trishann
    Trishann wearykitty

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    Wearykitty As I am reading your story and your symptoms I can't I believe how my story is exactly like yours!! I too have been suffering with this for 2 years and I had been to every Doctor you could think of! Also Been to ER 4 times in one year . It's been so overwhelming and scary! I just try to tell myself it's just the change of life. I'm 43 years old and can't believe how my body acts weird on me. I have many days where I'm literally dizzy and off balance! Hope this all comes to an end. I've read so many stories and I truly believe its all related to the change. Good Luck and stay strong! God Bless
  • jaimie44465
    jaimie44465 wearykitty

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    Weary kitty,

    I have most of those symptoms and they do create anxiety. I wish they we were lucky and were able to sail through Perimenopause. Hang in there. You are not alone.

  • pinkcatfairy
    pinkcatfairy wearykitty

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    I am in that place too! I have always had an anxiety disorder with agoraphobia (hate open spaces) but this menopause has heightened it to a high level, I now panic queuing in the shops and in normal situations that wouldnt have worried me before and the health anxiety is horrible too, I think that I have every illness going and the nausea doesnt help does it? The symptoms come and go I find too! I remember having this anxiety as a teenager obviously when hormones are up and down, I never thought I would feel like that again but I do x
    • nuss999
      nuss999 pinkcatfairy

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      My GP gave me Diazepam for the anxiety symptoms when they were at their worst. They definitely work, but make me so sleepy. I was recommended Kalms tablets and must admit they really have helped. I take up to three a day and they have been a life saver. I'm currently on holiday and really don't think I would have travelled if I didn't have them. I also take 200mg B6 and Starflower capsules after reading that this too would help. Hope you are feeling better soon, anxiety is awful and difficult to explain to people who have never suffered...x

  • pinkcatfairy
    pinkcatfairy wearykitty

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    Referring to your sickness reflux can cause that (it seems to increase in peri/meno) and can cauae nausea especially in the mornings where you have been lying down the reflux can come up your oesophagus and cause nausea, also things like caffeine gave me nausea x
  • staci489
    staci489 wearykitty

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    This is me exactly from ER to scans to digestive issues major weight loss..anxiety horrible this all started years ago with the symptoms much worse within the past 18 months...never felt like this ever in my life...my MD says the same thing but my MRI and MS eye test came out negative...
  • Tolksgirl14
    Tolksgirl14 wearykitty

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    I feel ya...I have not been diagnosed yet either..and in the past month I have been in the ER 2 times...tightness in the chest and numbness in both my arms...I am always tired...dropping things more easily than I ever did.  

    I am finishing up all of the diagnostics with my cardiologist to be sure that there is nothing going on with the heart,...

    I have a GYN appointment soon, so hopefully we will get down to the root of the problem.

    SO OVER THIS!!...but we WILL get through it.

     

  • tabatha44652
    tabatha44652 wearykitty

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    Ok so I know I did not write this… But I it sounds just like me! I am 47 years old and have been suffering for about a year now. There are days I am sure I am crazy. I take Anti depressants and anxiety medication as needed and they do help . I have so many physical symptoms there's too many to list. Fatigue, overwhelm feeling, anxiety, fear, the feeling something bad's going to happen to me, as well as the physical symptoms such as IBS, Gerd, other stomach issues, headaches, weakness in arms, restless leg syndrome and more.

    I know my doctor must be sick of seeing me. I was having breast pain and and thought I had a lump… It wasn't. I recently ended up in ER for chest pain's and had an EKG and it was all clear. My headache seems so different and weird that I ended up with an MRI that was clear.

    I could go on and on but I am certain that this is perimenopause. Another friend of mine same age is going to the same things. I hate that she's going through it but I'm really glad I'm not alone.

    Thanks for your post it did make me feel better and more assured.

    • monique_93857
      monique_93857 tabatha44652

      Posted

      You just described me everything this menopause is horrible I hate this anxiety it drives me batty your right your always thinking something is wrong with you my lord when does it end
    • tabatha44652
      tabatha44652 monique_93857

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      Hopefully soon. I seriously think I'm nuts sometimes. Lol. Good thing is...we are not alone.

    • monique_93857
      monique_93857 tabatha44652

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      Yes I'm laying here in bed I can't sleep my shoulders are aching my anxiety is on edge lord can't help but to think something is wrong my wrist is giving me the blues my body aches my boobs hurt think that's due to my coffee drinking grrrrrrr why oh why did Eve not listen about the fruit lol we have to go through so much I have a question does the aching get worse due to cold air because my husband has to keep air on day in day out I notice my shoulders ache more when I'm cold then my bellie gives me the business for no reason I feel full and hadn't eatin anything I get weird pain in my head lord what else

    • tabatha44652
      tabatha44652 monique_93857

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      Yep yep yep. Lol. I have these strange random pains all the time and I immediately think something new is wrong with me. My pain (body aches and fibromalgia) has been relieved about because I'd been going to the chiropractor. It has helped a good bit. Also it's kind of funny I was going in there trying to sleep last night and got a weird pain in my head too. I don't know how long this lasts but I hope it ends soon. Good luck!

    • Annabelle.
      Annabelle. tabatha44652

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      Wow, I thought I was going crazy. I too, have been having exactly the same issues. I'm 43. I have IBS, severe anxiety, panic attacks, weakness in the legs, fatigue. I never had any problems like this before. I went to the hospital thinking it must be a heart attack. Finally, blood work showed I'm perimenopausal. And I was offered Prozac. This is a scary thing to go threw.

    • tabatha44652
      tabatha44652 Annabelle.

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      Hang in there. Today had been bad. I am so tired that moving is a struggle. Horrible headache and dizzy and naseau. I'm over all of it, sick of it.

    • Annabelle.
      Annabelle. tabatha44652

      Posted

      I too have the headache, nausea,dizziness, at least a week out of the month. The other weeks are filled with fatigue,pains,leg weakness. Those things make the anxiety worse, because I start thinking I must have cancer somewhere. Then, the panic attack starts. It's a cruel way to live. Of course, my husband just don't understand it. I seem nuts. Some days I feel brain foggy. I refuse to just accept that this is what women must live with. My research begins.

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