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Is this peri?

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tracey73517
tracey73517

hi everyone,

so i think im perimenopause. i have tried to speak to GP but says im too young!! im 43 ! i think i have been for a while. how do i actually find out if i am if the GP wont listen? so i have noticed my periods have been really heavy for the first couple of days and then barely anything for a few more and thats it, this month however, been in for 8 days but barely anything for last 4 but instead of brown as usual its still red? i find every month after a period i feel ill. cant explain it but no energy, low mood, bloating, indigestion bad most of time but flares up. eyes dry and seem strange but been to optician and they say fine. headaches! aching muscles? feel about 60!! no sex drive what so ever ! i get really bloated before and quite low mood and when i actually have my period i have gas that just escapes all the time ! i feel like i have baby brain and forgets simple words i want to say and struggle to get the right words out sometimes but no one else notices ?? any advice ??

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  • aliseanya
    aliseanya tracey73517

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    That is peri! I was 44 when it started. You are not too young. I don't know what is wrong with some doctor's that keep saying you are too young. In medical books it says quite clearly peri starts in your 40's & 50's! That your body even starts transitioning in your late thirties. It become full blown in your 40's.

    The scratching thing that was mentioned- I was setting here typing this and kept scratching my leg. I have hives on my arms. The first peri symptom of women in my family is the itching skin. I remember being a little girl and all the middle age women in my family would set at the table visiting and they would all be scratching. Fast forward over thirty years later I was talking to my husband and I was just setting there scratching just like my family members. It was such a shock, lol. Those women have scars from scratching. I am getting them too. My Mom spent thousands trying to fix her skin.

    • toria_07298
      toria_07298 aliseanya

      Posted

      try a low histamine diet histamine increases estrogen and vice versa xx

    • aliseanya
      aliseanya sandeep08592

      Posted

      I am using aloe vera gel. Anything I am putting on my skin is causing a reaction. Aloe works really well for me.

  • tracey73517
    tracey73517

    Posted

    thanks all, nice to feel not alone but sad so many of us are going through this ! As if going through labour and periods is not enough, we have to go through this as well !! its proper poop ! anyone had any luck with anything that helps? works? and has anyone had theirs diagnosed properly by a GP? any tests to prove it? wondering if there is anything i can ask the doctor for or they will just say it sounds like it now just get on with it !! hope all you lovely lot can some sort of relief ! i just get days where i just dont know what to do with myself x

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