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Hi Lovelies, hope everyone is doing well. This might sound stupid but just need some clarification, the 3 stages of menopause...peri which is the lead up to menopause when there's been no period for a year then I've read about post menopause...am I a nuff nuff or what?! LoL I always thought menopause was menopause, pass the 12 mth mark that's it but from what I read meno symptoms can still have a cycle like pattern till they finally settle/stop which then is post menopause...this apparently could possibly take 5yrs omg! Considering this then I am in menopause, been over a year with no periods, not post meno as I still get a cycle like pattern of symptoms despite taking Livial(has eased some symptoms) All very confusing, or is it just me being a noodle brain? 😏
Take Care, be kind to yourselves
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Zigangie NuttyNan
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It's another reason why I've started with the HRT it just wasn't
going away and after they had stopped two years I just seemed to be having symptoms all the time instead of in cycles.
Now on the HRT they seem to be occasional like at start of peri.
A few seem to be here to stay unless an increase in estrogen will help at some point.
At the moment it's my shoulders all the time if I do certain things and they don't hurt it's a pleasant surprise. Sleep is useless but has changed from not being able to get off to sleep to sleep with frequent waking which is again more like early peri
elaine33371 Zigangie
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I didn't really go in for chocolate sweets and things except during that week before.
The HRT has changed that at least I'm hoping I may even start to lose some of the weight I've put on because of these constant chocolate binges I've been having for almost 3 years.
For a while there at around 6 to 8 weeks into the HRT I even thought I'd stop taking it because it brought back a few of the horrible peri symptoms with a vengeance.
Now it's settled back to a bit like early peri where they come and go and are quickly gone again.
I did want to do it naturally if I could but, like you I've had it now 10 years, 13 if you count those first few years when symptoms were there but transient.
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You are such a great wealth of knowledge. I've always had regular cycles until
I turned 35. Then I noticed that the cycles came every 23 days heavy bleeding with clotting that would last about 7 to 8 days. I was messing up clothes and putting towels down in my bed. That lead to anemia. I had extremely sore breasts where it hurt to put clothes on, very moody and would cry all the time, headaches, sugar cravings and could eat everything in view, I gained so much weight, waking up in the morning with body all sweaty especially when my menses was on. I just thought these things were pms. Now since November, I've noticed that the cycles still come every 3 weeks, with minimal bleeding, barely any cramping, and no sore boobs, but now I have the anxiety, which I have no clue where it came from, and at times it is through the roof, doom and gloom thoughts, vivid and weird dreams, occasional heart palps, wake up every hour, weird head, chills, sometimes hot, indegestion, a whole lot of gas, i've lost a lot of weight from changing how i eat because sometimes the gas and indegstion makes me not want to eat, inside tremors and tingling, sometimes I get really mean, then other times I can't talk without crying. I've been to the ER dozens of times, also to my GP, and have several tests and scans, all come back negative. All they say is I'm anemic that I now take supplements for along with folic acid, I had high blood pressure which I've never had in my life so I take meds for that and low potassium that my GP has me eating bananas, and some sort of potassium every day. My weird symtpoms was what led my aunt to tell me about peri so when researching I came across this forum and the ladies experiences were like they were talking about me. When I tell my GP how I feel, all he did was ask if I was still having a menses and gave me a script for Ativan to help with anxiety and told me I need to relax. This has all just made me so crazy. I don't know what to do or how to feel anymore.
elaine33371 jamie50513
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And thats what i was saying to myself as well, dont know what to do or, feel anymore, everything felt like it was coming to ahead, then my periods stopped for good, so think you may be pretty close their jamie!!...........But I urge you to try drink the water when you wake feeling not so good, and with the dreams, just try it,, gulp it during the night, just half glass, but only sip it during the day every ten mins, this is more than likely why your potassium is low, part of our symptoms are caused by low blood volume, when this happens, our body makes us thirsty because we have dehydrated due to higher temps inside, its trying to get us too drink, if we dont, we lose more and more of our blood volume, this drops our blood pressure, and thats what then causes the off balance, dizziness, the fatigue, and also then puts our electrolytes out more, but dont over do the water either, or else you will dilute your salts, and you will find if your drinking too much and that happens, you will wee more, so, if you try the water, go by that, if you start weeing more, then your supposed to put salt in instead, cant advise you to do that, as it can take blood pressure up too much, and may affect other health probs, that can only come from a dr, but if its low, a handful of salted nuts would help at this point.
Fatigue causes neurological symptoms, thats whats causing the weired dreams, the fatigue is temporarily knocks our sleep rythms out, and your body clock. By any chance Jamie, do you ever get electric type shocks going through your body and head during the day? and/or jerking movements as your drifting off to sleep?? when we become fatigued, we lose motivation to do things, which inturn causes low mood, but the lack of motivation is NOT due to depression, its to do more with low energy levels, when our energy levels comes back up, the low mood goes, along with the anxiety.
Presume your gp is a man then..............you need to try and relax, you must have been having a good day when he said that................ha
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Zigangie jamie50513
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Different scenarios but basically the same theme. I would be looking after young children usually 3 under fives. They weren't mine lol I don't know whose they were but I felt so responsible. Maybe they would all be hungry, I had no money could not remember any phone numbers to get anyone to help alone in a flat high up apartment block and have to ferry them downstairs one at a time going back up one flight at a time to carry down the next, so on and so on until we reached the ground floor. Then realised no one was about to help and having to get them all back up to the flat in the same way.
Another night being chased all over town by giants, having to carry two at the same time as encouraging the older one to keep up.
Another time on a sandy beach having to trudge miles back to the car.
I always woke up feeling as if I had really done all that stiff too!
elaine33371 Zigangie
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your dream sounds like, your struggle with menopause, as if your fighting all on your own with it, and your getting no help from anyone, taking children upand down lifts single handed, trudging miles back to the car................makes sense to me.
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