I think Im going crazy!
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I am new to this group and I joined because I needed to find a group of people who could hopefully help me. I am 45 years old and I had a partial hystorectomy 10 years ago. Because I have no menstral cycle I cant be sure if and where I would be in perimenopause. For the last eight months or so I have grown increasingly angry, anxious, depressed and generally feel like Im going crazy. My thoughts can often be negitive or scarry, my vision has become very quickly terrible, blurry and myopic. I dont feel like im sleeping well at night, I get AWFUL anxiety all the time and I keep thinking that Im so old and that Im going to die soon. I had an event that I thought was a heart attack and so did the paramedic who took me to the hospital as my EKG showed elevated ST wave ( a heart blockage) but when they ran many many tests to include a nuclear stress test nothing cardiac was found. Also I think every little pimple or headace is the big bad boogieman here to get me. I activly fear going to the doctor because Im terrified they will find something terribly wrong with me. Im exhausted all the time and like one of the othe rladies said, I often feel like running away. Out side of well controlled hypothyroid, a binign kidney cyct and fibromyalgia I dont have any other health issues (that I know of yet). Am I going crazy? or is everything Im feeling common to perimenopause?
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You are not going crazy. It sounds like you are in perimenopause.
I'm 46 and have been going through it the last 4 years but the severe symptoms have been going on about 4 months.
Overnight I seemed to change into a different woman.
Terrible anxiety,panic attacks (about 6 a day)
Depression
Feeling useless
(I think the anxiety and panic has eased slightly since on HRT patches )
Not sleeping,panicky in bed
Hot sweats (these have eased on HRT )
Really bad acid reflux(this is really bad now)
Severe headaches and tinitus
Tingling body
Tight chest and palpitations(very frightening)
There are more.
Everyone on here are lovely. They really help you. They have me.
It is hard to believe hormones can do this to you isn't it.
I don't even want to go out and socialising now,even find it difficult to keep any appointments I've made.
Take care. You will come out of it eventually, that's what I keep telling myself xxx
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