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I’ve had a stiff neck and pain in the neck and now shoulder for nearly 5 weeks.

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suzycoon
suzycoon

I was told last year that my hormone levels were extremely high and am now going through Peri M... my joints have been suffering so bad and I know have had a stiff and painful neck and shoulder for over 5 weeks, has anyone else experienced this? beginning to panic now as suffer from anxiety and have already just gotten over a gyny scare!

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  • caroline62395
    caroline62395 suzycoon

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    Hi Suzy

    I have the exact same thing, my neck aches and I have pain at the top of my collar bone, I was scared at first but like all my other symptoms they have been going on for 4-5 years so I have just put them down to peri-menopause .

    I never suffered anxiety before but now have health anxiety, I worry about every single ache and pain, I have had every medical test going, I am reassured for a while but then it starts again.  I am currently feeling a vibration through my feet!! Every week feels like I have a new symptom. x

     

    • amanda59745
      amanda59745 caroline62395

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      Hi Caroline i too have pains in my collar bone, i have had my neck shoulder and back pain since June, GP says it is health anxiety. I just want it to stop. Have you tried any supplements for this as i was told magnesium can help? x
    • caroline62395
      caroline62395 amanda59745

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      Hi Amanda I am trying menopace tablets at the moment, hopefully they will help, I have a new symptom today burning sensation on left hand side of my scalp, I wish I hadn’t googled it now I’m thinking all sorts of things!! When will this ever end x
    • suzycoon
      suzycoon caroline62395

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      Hi Caroline I also get this on and off but it radiates downthe left had side of my face also I always get anxious but after a week or two it seems to subside thank fully... try not to worry I am slowly getting used to all these weired and wonderful ailments x
    • amanda59745
      amanda59745 caroline62395

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      Hi Caroline i have just read your reply and have just bought a pack of Menopace from my local Tesco, i hope they help as i am going to have to go to see my GP again as may pain in my back is also starting further down.
    • juanita93228
      juanita93228 caroline62395

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      Hi Caroline. Don't Google, it will send you over the edge. One lady's doctor told her to stop Googling because it always ends in bad news. In other words it always take you to the worse case scenario. Dr. Google is bad. I had to stop.  And yes it will end. I'm still having some issues, mostly depression and health anxiety, and dry eyes. Something new may appear and of course you think you're dying. But the joint pain is mostly gone, no hot flashes or night sweats. I can't take HRT, so I take a good multivitamin, drink water, pray, joining a gym next month(yoga and weight classes). I also started seeing a therapist. I try to eat reasonably well(that is still a work in progess, Lol). My doctor just started me on Lexapro, and she gave me Valium to take on an as needed basis. We're going to make it, just think, our mothers did it(granted the doctors wanted to put them in the looney bin, and they were constantly told "it's all in your head"wink.  But now we know it's a very real thing. If it were easy men would do it. Men wouldn't make it past the first hot flash.

    • caroline62395
      caroline62395 juanita93228

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      I try so hard to tell myself it’s not a deadly disease I have but it’s like my minds always playing tricks on me, I have had so many tests for different things and have never been told my symptoms could be perimenopause, it wasn’t until I asked for my FSH level checking that my GP told me it was 21 and I was starting peri. My friends and family just think I’m a hypochondriac. I’m so happy I found this group with other women who understand x
    • suzycoon
      suzycoon caroline62395

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      Hi Caroline 

      It’s reassuring hearing that so many others are suffering similar ailments,?ive also had the vibration sensation I thought I was standing near a generator or something as it started in a supermarket, it then went to my lady region which really freaked me! lasted on an off fir a few weeks, comes back every now and then! Our bodies are so strange! ❤️

    • juanita93228
      juanita93228 caroline62395

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      You are not a hypochondriac for sure. My therapist told me in my first session yesterday that women are natural worriers(whether they say they are or not) and perimenopause and menopause just heightens it. You come here anytime and talk. I can remember my sister going through it 12 years ago. I remember her husband driving her from doctor to doctor. She said it was a dark period in her life and she won't even talk about it. I'm also glad I found this forum. it has been a Godsend for me.

    • caroline62395
      caroline62395 juanita93228

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      This group Is proving to be great for me, I don’t feel like a crazy women anymore, I remember my mum going through similar things but sadly she died 5 years ago so I can’t ask her. I think she had finished everything at 48 so I’m living in hope it will be the same for me x
  • amanda59745
    amanda59745 suzycoon

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    Hi Suzycoon, i have had neck pain and shoulder pain mainly on my left and around my shoulder blade for 8 months now. I have had massages, done yoga, and had physio for 3 months with very little help.  I have also started swimming and practicing mindfulness. I am 47 and am peri, periods all over the place then regular for a month or 2. no flushes or sweats  but i do get anxious. My GP says this pain is due to anxiety this was in June last year but, at the same time i was weaning off of Amitriptyline which, was horrendous with lots of nausea etc. I have been off Amitriptyline since December and do not feel as anxious anymore but, my pain persists. I am afraid to go to see my GP as they just think it is due to health anxiety. I have been reading  muscle pains can result from higher levels of estrogen. x  
    • suzycoon
      suzycoon amanda59745

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      Hi Amanda, thank you that has reassured me somewhat as started to think all sorts!  However I’m saddened to hear that you have had it for so long, I so hope it goes soon for you and I so hope that mine will start to go soon too I seem to just ache all over as if I’m so old am 52x
  • Eliaimee1970
    Eliaimee1970 suzycoon

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    I had the same thing ! Neck pain , shoulder pain and it radiates to the front to the breast left side always after MRI  was. Normal and the pain  It subside and now I’m dealing with another symptom it will get better. Hugs
    • suzycoon
      suzycoon Eliaimee1970

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      It’s no joke is it!  We no sooner deal and out our minds at rest with one ailment and as quick as a flash there is another to take its place and so the worrying begins yet again! 

      Wishing you well and ailment free hugs x

    • Eliaimee1970
      Eliaimee1970 suzycoon

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      Indeed yesterday I had to leave work i had frequenzy bathroom trips not pee and nauseated and just unnerving feeling , lower ab pain ! The shoulder pain w neck returned this past week w my period! It is crazy our bodies just going crazy .  
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