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Flu like symptoms or perimenoause?

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jody63150
jody63150

I am so sore all the time. Sometimes it’s my arms and hips but mostly my lower back. I woke up with aches right around where my bra strap would be. It hurts if I’m standing or sitting. Kind of a tingling pain and tightness in my back. Of coarse I look it up and fear for lung disease. Anxiety is the worst. I also get a sore throat right before my almost non existent period. I get dizzy some days and I have dry mouth and sometimes burning tongue. My hands and feet are like ice and I’m often so cold. I’m in blanket now and it’s 72 degrees. My hair falls out when I wash it. It covers my hands. My skin is so dry and cracking. Sometimes my

Gums are so sore. Most of these things I know are from fluctuating hormones but can it feel like someone is hugging you tight around your ribs all day without relief?

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  • maddysmom2015
    maddysmom2015 jody63150

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    Hi Jody,  This sounds like a very low vitamin D level.  I get terrible muscle pain and flu symptoms when I am low on D. 

    I put in sore gums and burning mouth is a symptom of low B6. Have you tried supplementing? Certainly having low Vit B in general will make anxiety spike. 

  • evi75119
    evi75119 jody63150

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    I have read that maybe this flu like fatigue symptom is from the release of prostaglandins in our tissues and our blood.

    ​Today, I am on 2 day of my period and I have all the symptoms of dysmenorrhea....intestinal cramps, uterus contractions and the pain is radiating down to my thighs like tremulous, diarreah, a little nausea, pain under my ribs like I cannot breath and before my period begins I had the awful flu like fatigue on my legs and swollen calves. 

    ​I am experiencing also chills similar to the flu and a feeling like having fever..

    Flu like symptoms are a combination between a decrease in estrogen and prostaglandins, I think..

    ​during your period use moisture cream..

    ​only paracetamol helps me at this phase

  • jody63150
    jody63150

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    I am so thankful for this forum. I often panic at the abnormal and painful symptoms that come and go in my body. I wish there was something out there other than the 66 symptom list that was a little more encompassing. In my experience quite a few women I have talked to end up in the ER thinking they are dying. I’ve been there. Thinking my kids will grow up without me and losing weight at a rapid rate at times because I can’t eat. The anxiety is terrible. I am so glad to hear there are others with the same symptoms so I know I’m not alone. 
    • sharcerv52408
      sharcerv52408 jody63150

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      I know and understand exactly how you feel. I have rushed back and forth to the doctor and ER thinking that I was at death's door more times than I can count. It's horrible that there isn't more resources out here for us especially in the 21st century where they are coming up with more and more ways to treat things. You'd think by now they'd have found ways to help us cope with this inevitable transition. I think in large part it's because the medical world by far is still very much a man's world. The male to female ratio of doctors is very high.,meaning there are far more males in this industry than females. Until the females start to take a vested interest in the area of hormones and endocrinology, then we're stuck with the general guidelines set forth by the AMA which is run by men who have no idea what it's like to have periods, give birth, or go through menopause.

  • jody63150
    jody63150

    Posted

    Did I mention the stabbing ear pain after my cycle every month. Also I have peeling finger nails. 
  • jody63150
    jody63150

    Posted

    And I’m constantly yawning
  • michelleTexas
    michelleTexas jody63150

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    Jody,

    I have had pain in my chest, like it's sore deep inside my lungs for no reason. I keep getting a very low grade fever everytime I do much physical work, and sometimes just at bedtime. I am not sick in any way.

    My hips on the outside of my butt ache all the time, I can hardly stay asleep, the pain wakes me up at night constantly.

    I am SO tired for NO reason. Lathergic.  Yes, I resorted to google and now I have lung cancer, and pneumonia!  LOL!!

    • Guest
      Guest michelleTexas

      Posted

      Hi Michelle o get that does it feel like gnaw and pain under ribs I know muscular as I have knits but comes in waves and so tight feel like deep into chest and tight I fo go for physio massage and she says I am so knotted but also makes me feel so unwell x
    • jody63150
      jody63150 michelleTexas

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      Yes yes yes! My pain is in the same places as well. Something my dr told me. If you can push on your chest and recreate the pain it’s not internal. I do this all the time. It’s comforting when you find the pain and you are like okay it’s not my heart. Lol
    • Guest
      Guest jody63150

      Posted

      Yes it’s awful I get so worried I will try that later I do feel not my heart more my lungs or gallbladder as pain so deep seated but also as muscles tight knotted think link try not to google when I get flare up . I do allot yoga 🧘??? which can affect this intercostal musclebut also hormones and menopause you get lots ache pain , do you also get pain in top arm of the side pain on ? X

    • jody63150
      jody63150 sharcerv52408

      Posted

      If you can push on the spot and it hurts then the pain is muscular and not internal. 
  • Guest
    Guest jody63150

    Posted

    Yes try that I have pain in upper scapula like knots neck and then in both side ribs hurt but it the gnawing pain like I want to dig something out most odd and then I worry but feel better tonight , then comes back like stabbing and gnawing I feel such a hyponcondriac when I tell my family friends they look at me like I am mad 
    • amanda59745
      amanda59745 Guest

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      Hi Joanne, I have had many many knots in my back since june last year , i have been to my GP may times to be given pills and told it is health anxiety. I have been offered antidepressants many times and refused, i am not depressed i am in pain. I have had many massages and told my back is so tense, i have a tight neck and shoulders and keep getting an ache under my ribs mainly the right but some times the left.  I have has spasms/twitching  in my back muscles too. It is so worrying. x 
    • jody63150
      jody63150 Guest

      Posted

      It’s definitely hormonal. Ever since my periods have gone from 7 days and heavy to 2 days of spotting I have all sorts of pain in my back and chest and ribs and my neck is so stiff. It feels like it needs cracked all the time. 
    • jody63150
      jody63150 amanda59745

      Posted

      The doctors always say everything is anxiety. Yes your hormones cause anxiety to be worse but who would blame a person for seeing the Dr for actual chest pain or dizziness. I know for awhile I was in and out every week demanding answers and paying $40 every time which I don’t have. I looked it up and nobody has ever written a book about their experience in this whole mess. I’m sure a lot of women would read it and save them from thinking the worst. 
    • Guest
      Guest amanda59745

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      Thanks Amanda good to be on here and see othere have the same it is real and like you I am not depressed I just get concerned onto why I get this as I talk to others and they don’t have in menopause , I also have health anxiety understandable I lost both my parents to cancer stroke 10 weeks apart was an awful time I look after my mum who had larynx cancer which spread through her body , all she had was a hoarse voice and neck pain for months and dr said virus so there you go that why we get like we do so gp should be sympathetic to r needs and theyalway say go early to get thing checked and these real symptoms x 
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