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Hello ladies

I'm so glad I found this forum. I have been reading quietly for a couple of years. I am 53 and started menopause about two years ago. I didn’t even realize I was starting it except for irregular periods, and then I noticed other things that were happening and called my doctor to be tested. And, noticed I was having some hot flashes, skin changes, mainly being very dry, some changes with my hair, and of course achy joints, which I never had before. I have always had a little bit of anxiety, but nothing debilitating and nothing I couldn't get under control. when I have anxiety, I tend to get health anxiety, which seems to be the worst. I’ve always been a very healthy person, and I’ve never taken my health for granted, and I’ve always been thankful for it. So whenever I do get sick or since starting menopause, and when I do get anxiety and have the physical symptoms of anxiety, I sit and wonder and worry that every little ache or pain or tingle, is something awful and then of course you Google, and that’s the worst thing to do.

I always go to my GYN for my yearly‘s, I have my mammograms and I always keep my yearly appointments with my PCP and have yearly exams and bloodwork. Everything always checks out OK and for the most part I feel OK and can deal with the minor symptoms of menopause. but, then there are those times when I have like a week of two really bad symptoms or for example I have a desk job and sitting down at a desk job 8 to 9 hours a day does a number on you anyway, I try to get up and move around as much as I can. last week we had a really bad and busy week at work and I just felt my back was sore. My arm was sore and I was starting to get some tingling all the way from my face all the way down to my hand on the left side which I’ve had before and has happened many times before and there’s no doubt that I could have bad posture from sitting at a desk, I could have a pinched nerve, and some degenerative changes with my spine from age. But I automatically think the worst. I start wondering if I’m having heart problems or a heart attack or somethings going on like MS or brain tumors or any kind of cancer for that matter. It’s just awful and takes over your mind 24 seven.

and, I come here and read everyone’s stories and experiences, and while I would never put off finding out, if something was really wrong with me, and I don’t really feel that there is, other than this being menopause, and experiencing the same symptoms so many are experiencing. It’s crazy how hormones can make you feel so many different ways and calls so many different symptoms.

I apologize for any typos I am typing on my iPhone.

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