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i feel like im dying

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kim74983
kim74983

how can peri make me feel this sick

it started jan 2016 but past 3 months have beem horrible. i wake up at 5am feeling so sick. i am beyond tired everyday all day ( prob cause i dont sleep much ) and my body doesnt feel good. i feel like i am slowly dying and even tho all my tests come back normal ( and i havr had a lot ) that they are missing something thats gonna kill me. my constant upset stomach/trapped air burping/ feeling unsteady when i walk is the worst one, amxiety, feel like i have ongoing flu.

please ease my mind and tell me im not alone. this seriously needs to stop. its putting me into depression

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  • emmee16816
    emmee16816 kim74983

    Posted

    So great I am so grateful to see this post. Just today at my doctors appointment, I thought I was also dying. So I am now getting blood work to confirm that most of this is menopause related. I Googled because I just could not believe that menopause could make me feel this crappy and anxious. Thanks, All, for your responses.
    • lori93950
      lori93950 emmee16816

      Posted

      Good luck Emmee it’s all a gamble once you get your blood work done then it’s like a military operation trying to find the right combination for you if you do need hormones . 
    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 lori93950

      Posted

      Hi ladies

      I've been having frozen shoulders and a headache for the past 4 days!! Please let ma know if any of you dealing with the same symptom and is anything. That would help!!!!

    • eleonora0422
      eleonora0422 maria_03422

      Posted

      Hi Maria

      I have had frozen shoulder for last year. I am 59 and since menopause at 51 every thing comes. One by one all the symptoms. It is hell. How old are u

    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 eleonora0422

      Posted

      Hi eleonora,

      Im 52 still getting my period, I might miss one here and there!!

      I was feeling great for a few months and here we go again..the frozen shoulders, neck and the headache is been horrible!.of course my anxiety is up thinking all kinds crazy things!!

      Do you get the headaches also?

    • eleonora0422
      eleonora0422 maria_03422

      Posted

      Hi Maria

      I get everyrhing. Worst symptoms for me is in the morning when I get up I feel like fainting and go all pale and a feeling of malaise. Lately have got nausea too. I have just started testosterone cream. A very low dose as I am very delicate. Where do u live. I am in Australia. It seems to me that in america they are very advanced with bioidentical hormones. Here not so much and that is the problem.

    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 eleonora0422

      Posted

      I am in America, my dr is not a big fan of HRTs and like you im going through this for 8 long years!! Im so tired, and i dont t hink im coming to the end anytime soon since. Im still getting reguralry my period..its a nightmare!

      My family is tired hear me complain...

    • eleonora0422
      eleonora0422 maria_03422

      Posted

      Hi

      Can u list all your symptoms when u have time and I will too. 59 now and it seems to never end. I don't work but if I had to I don't know how I could. Are u Italian. I am and I get feeling u are too

    • lori93950
      lori93950 maria_03422

      Posted

      I would find a new dr ... you can try a low dose HRT or BHRT that’s too long to be going through so much pain 
    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 eleonora0422

      Posted

      Hi Eleonora

      No, im not Italian but you are close, Im greek? and i have a large number of family members in Melbourne. My husband is Italian!

      My symptoms... where to I begin!! I had symptoms that came and gone and i have some that continuing coming back every few months for the past 8 years.

      In the first year , the most common were: dry mouth, itchy skin, hives. Then start getting stomach issues right after that start feeling sad, moody and anti social!! I didnt feel i wanted to talk or visit with anyone, start gaining some weight!! Then start having anxiety and panic attacts, ear pain, neck and shoulder issues, not sleeping more then 4 hours dry throat, not able too swallow , leg pain, BP all over the place, flu like symptoms.. its been couple of years that the sadness and the mood swings are gone...and i start having issues with my sinus im always cold, vision trouble..some days is fine and others i can't see anything without my glasses..all the symptoms above pretty much gone, right before my period i might get afew popping up but thats it..now the only ones that really bothering me the most are: headaches, frozen shoulders, and getting stressed over every little thing! Also , my heart rate some days is down to 60's and some days can reach 90's!!! I have a drs appt tomorrow to see about this neck and headache..i had a scan done 2 years ago for the same thing, but my health anxiety is so bad, right now thinking the worst! The past year i missed my period twice and i was so happy thinking im done but no!!! Still here like a clock work every 26 days! !!

      I'm hoping, eventually everything will slow down and life become semi normal...also im getting so forgetful!!! I hate it! I see some improvements , my weight went down and start living a bit and being social!! I stopped coffee, sugars and alcohol!! Watch what i eat and i walk every day!!

    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 lori93950

      Posted

      Lori

      Did you suffered from headaches?

      Anything you can recommend?

      Thank you

    • lori93950
      lori93950 maria_03422

      Posted

      I used to get bad menstrual migraines and used to have my mom send MAXALT from UK as they are $50 a pill here . I took half a pill and migraine gone within an hour . Great stuff and always have them on hand .
    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 lori93950

      Posted

      Lucky you☺ im going to my dr tomorrow to see if he can prescribe something because advil does nothing!!
    • lori93950
      lori93950 maria_03422

      Posted

      Those pills do NOTHING  for migraine . Ask for MAXALT they work miracles ! 
    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 lori93950

      Posted

      I should check first with my insurance to make sure they covered, i couldnt effort $ 50 per pill!!
    • eleonora0422
      eleonora0422 maria_03422

      Posted

      Hi maria. I hear u. The only symptom I have not got YET is dry mouth but everything else i have got on and off. Also i have heartbeat in my ear at nite sometimes, flushing red burning feet which is first symptom of menopause that I had at51 and fainting feeling like and pale in the morning which is very debilitating. Panic attacks are awful and mine come with feeling of passing out with paleness. It is very scary at times. To make all worse my son who lives with us and I would not have it any other way, has severe bipolar. We shower etc him. He is 33 and illness started at puberty 16. He was bullied a lot at school and docs sat maybe that was the trauma. Meds don't help much and we have seen best docs but it is trial and error. So yes I didn't need this menopause stuff. I ha e enough. Fortunately I have been married for 40years and hubby is great. Are u married. Do u have kids. Do u work. If I had to work I don't know how I could.

    • eleonora0422
      eleonora0422

      Posted

      Oh yes Maria and severe back pain like I use to get with my periods but no periods for 19 years cause I had fibroids so uterus out at 40.
    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 eleonora0422

      Posted

      Yes, I forgot the back pain ..i dont get it anymore but in the beggining was horrible i couldnt get off the bed!!

      There are so many, you loose track!

      Im sorry to hear about your son! I have 3 children and a year an half grand daughter!! That little girl is my life☺

    • eleonora0422
      eleonora0422 maria_03422

      Posted

      Hi Maria

      I have daughter who has a set of twin boys. They are beautiful. Today feeling like an old woman. So tired and nausea. I don't think I mentioned that from the very beginning of menopause I have had flushing under my feet which is not that common. Have u had this symptom

    • maria_03422
      maria_03422 eleonora0422

      Posted

      No never had that Eleonora..

      Yesterday went to my dr for neck and the headaches. He is sending me to a chiropractor!! I know alots got to do with my period that its do a few days!

      I know what you mean feeling old!! Some days i dont want to look in the mirror, i look so tired! Its funny this lasts for 10 years or so and then we getting to the senior years☺

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