Headaches

Thank you Suzanne, 

I went to the ent on Friday he saw my ears didn't see anything he said put some ice compress, told me to come back in a month if not better to do ct scan of my sinus had a ct scan of my head at the er doc said it was fine but this headache I have it also in the back of my neck and some days my shoulder hurts this is driving me crazy will this subside. 

When I had the bad pain in my neck and head it was from using too many pillows and also looking down at my phone too much. I had an MRI done on my neck because it was so bad and the neuro said I had the neck of a 20 year old! Huh???? Anyway, when I got these things straightened out my neck started feeling better and the headaches got under control. 

Lately, when my feet start burning, it can also cause a weird headache, but I'm assuming these are my body's hot flashes. I also get pain in my back, shoulder, stomach, and an adrenaline rush kind of feeling. It's really awful. 

I'm a year and a half into this, and most of the really bad symptoms have gotten a bit better. But I think it's because I finally relaxed and decided that this is all peri related. I mean I've had everything scanned, MRI'd, bloodwork out the wazoo, and nothing was ever found, so the odds I have some disease that never showed up are slim. Although I did have an old virus surface. So keep in mind that can happen during peri when your immune system is low. But anyway, my point is, I think the anxiety I had thinking the doctors were missing something made everything so much worse. And I also think it takes a long time for your brain to get back to normal after all the anxiety, like it needs to rewire. 

Where your symptoms worst when you first started perimenapause,only because I wasn't feeling like this before perimenapause I mean I would get headache once in a while but not like this ,also I noticed that my vision gets blurry, what are you taking for your headache 

Heed my warning on this one. When the headaches were so bad I was taking Advil daily. This is what led to having bad chronic gastritis. Be really careful with NSAIDs, and if you do take them, make sure you are definitely taking with food/milk. So now I just have to take Tylenol, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. 

Yeah, my peri hit me like a train. But thinking back I did have some things going on all throughout my 40s. Bad night sweats. IBS stuff. Strange pain in my lower right abdomen. Things that could never be explained, but now I know it was probably all hormone related. But boy, when I hit 50 all hey hah broke loose. And yes, my vision gets wonky. From blurry, to floaters, to flashing zig zag lights, and lately silver glitter rain when I look at the sun. Had my eyes checked last January by an opthamalogist and all was fine. Of course it was. Everything is always OK, but man, can you feel like a train wreck!

I can't take advil have gastritis had an endoscopy and colonoscopy in November, colonoscopy was fine but endoscopy showed chronic inflammation I guess because when I was having headache I would always take advil  instead of tylonal,does your shoulders feel heavy sometimes,I haven't even dye my hair in about a month because of how I feel sometimes it even hurts to brush my hair.  

Suzanne, 

When you move your head from one side to another do you feel like something is moving in your neck it strange feeling ,sorry I'm just trying not to freak out I feel a little shaky .

Seems like many of us start out with gastritis. So many similarities.

When all my symptoms were at their worse I also developed frozen shoulder which was excruciating. And not being to take advil didn't help matters for that. So I've had pain in my head, neck, upper left back next to my shoulder blade which was awful, and shoulders, it's all related to peri. 

When I move my neck back and forth I can feel and hear crunching. I used to heat up one of those lavender neck wraps in the microwave. This really helped, and also sometimes alternating ice and heat when it was really bad. If you're waking up with the headache it's probably neck related.

I can tell you are starting to go down that anxiety rabbit hole. You've got to try and keep it together. Sounds like you've had many tests like I've had, and everything is OK. So just know that all these crazy symptoms are hormone related. I just don't know if there is anything we can do, but anxiety definitely makes it worse. I had to come to the realization that yes indeed peri can make you feel like you are dying. I had a hard time fathoming that, I mean, how can hormones make you feel that rotten and give you that many symptoms? But this is where this forum was a lifesaver for me, when you see that others are going through the same hell, it makes it easer to believe it.

Which you where living close by so we can help each other out, you live here in the usa or in uk.

That is awsome, I'm in south Florida 30 minutes from fort Lauderdale.

I'm going to call my obg to see if she can put me on hrt low dose patch

No you're right, I'm thinking of going on the hrt patch low dosage I'm going to give it a try and see how it goes I just started perimenopause about 4 months ago I faith in God that it will get better 

Where you getting fatigue, I also heard that many women get bags under there eyes and lathargic is this also true I'm new to this so I'm getting feed back from different women 

Are you in the usa or uk

How did you manage at the beginning, I'm going crazy. 

How did you find this forum this is good information, do you still get your period I still do but this month only 3 days in December I got it twice. 

I'm glad how about the beginning of perimenapause did you get alote of head ache,it is so nice that we can chat through this forum, one thing I also have with perimenapause I don't have much appetite. 

I heard that the hrt patch can give you side affects ,but then again I'm 51 and I was on birth control pills when I was a teenager for a few years ,I think hrt patch I'd going to help me I have faith .

Hopefully you can come to the usa one day and we can meet,thank for been so kind in this forum you've help me alote.

I'm sorry karen did you experience brain fog I'm not sure if this is happening to me if so can you explain it to me.

Thank you, 

can you suggest a good multi vitamin for perimenapause I'm not taking any yet 

At the beginning of your perimenapause where you tired alote not wanting to do anything stay home because that's how I feel brain fog I have also lost feeling for every thing .

Hi karen, 

Every day I wake up I feel like im sick with neck pain ,feels like a headache is coming on I feel weak  I just don't feel like myself how does one start to feel better with perimenapause. 

Any suggestions. 

Every day I feel fatigue it comes and goes then tired then dizzy then nacious and behind my right ear I feel like there is a slight pain I try to ignore it but it's hard also I haven't color my hair over a month I'm scared it might trigger a headache