Is it Perimenopause????

you have similar symptoms to me, my doc wont do bloods for perimenopause because hormones change minute/hourly & you dont get a true result? it would be so much better for our mental health if someone could come up with a test!!!!!!! ive woke feeling awful this morning had a night sweat & anxiety so now feel exhausted & dont want to move from my bed ive had enough of all this now too its no way to live im just struggling through each day with no end in sight sending a hug xx

the 40s by far worst years of my life! really can't tell perimenopause at all by tests.. can only go by symptoms, and sounds like to me you have all the symptoms all of us other woman on this site have,,. if all your tests come back negative I would be at ease and chalk it up as perimenopause.. your periods will change just give it time.. this is a SLOW process everything from heavy periods to non existent they will go all over the place , and all the other symptoms will follow for days weeks months and years everyone is different some suffer more than others., its very hard to go thru this change you can feel like you are dying its scary as hell and feel all alone.. in not sure the end result because in not there myself yet still going thru bad symptoms also.. but have read it gets better after all hormones settle and that can take years I'm afraid.. you can do things to help such as try your best to eat right exercise yoga meditation hot baths massage anything that helps you to cope and only you can figure that out.. maybe some supplements.. lots of things can aggravate the symptoms causing you to feel worse so trying to make yourself as comfortable as possible is key.. these doctors are clueless to this maybe she will go thru herself one day then truly understand.. in the meantime maybe look for another doctor,( who is more understanding and sympathetic) I picked one who was in her 50s thought to myself oh shell be perfect, couldn't have been more wrong .. all though looking back I think she may have been going thru it herself and didn't even realize it by her demeanor.. she was in plain term a bit nutty.. and was clearly frustrated and even talked under her breath.. I did not stay around to be treated like that..but this has been the worst time of my life these past 5 years and even longer looking back now..I still don't know myself if all this is perimenopause because I had hysterectomy when I was 27 but ovaries were left in me to go thru a natural menopause ha nothing natural about this at all.. but because I have no idea where id be in this process ( no periods to go by) I just gave to go by my age and symptoms and I have a bunch of recurring symptoms that I write everyday they just keep repeating..keep in mind when you are losing your hormones more and more during this process your body is ran by these hormones that are leaving you therefore only thing that will help is replacing these hormones so that everything can function again.. brain thyroid ECT...and for many woman they can't take hrt for many reasons me being one of them., so antidepressants things like that is not replacing the hormones that you are missing.. also I hear you can't stay on hrt forever and when you come off you start the process all over again.. no way around it just have to go thru it..be strong hope you find some relief for yourself , its a very very hard time in life it really is..

im 45 and my symptoms all started at 43, fatigue to begin with, then anxiety, shaking, rapid heart rate, heavy limbs, brain fog, pins n needles, breathlessness, could go on, 20 months now suffering since dec 2018, my period has only changed this year to longer and shorter cycles, i had hormones checked twice which say im not??? had every test under the sun, seen cardioligist and endocrinologist nothing coming back, im so over it, recently felt good for 3 weeks then bang 2 days before period all started again, if i find any solution or help ill let you know.

sooooooo now i have a new symptom!!!! SMH!! This tingling/burning sensation at the top of my head!!!! like all the others it comes and goes!!! SMH! i was even thinking i may have EHS! caused by EMF radiation or 5g radiation. it all presents the same symptoms!!! SMH!!!! i dont know what it is!!!! i am praying that it goes away!!!!!!! and i so wish i knew for SURE it was peri!!! that would at least calm my anxiety!!!

Just playing devil's advocate here, but if you have been told that the symptoms may be caused by a psychiatric condition is it not worth at least looking into the possibility? Psychogenic illness can cause all sort of horrible and widespread symptoms?