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Is this Peri? I feel like im slowly dying.

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lorin2362
lorin2362

So Im turning 47 in october and for about the last two years I have been seing my doctor for increase in symptoms that dont make sence. I have had a partial historectomy but kept my overies so no periods. It started a few years ago when my hair started falling out then I developed migraines that i had never had before. The next year I had the continued hair falling out and migrains but then it was shortly followed by bouts of feeling dizzy a few days at a time. Then came the stomach problems recently. I have started having nausea and an uncomfortable dull ache in my stomach. This is accompanied by reflux and feeling like it takes all day or all night for food to digest. My doctor checked my hormones about a year ago and said they were all in normal range but I fell like I have gone very downhill since then. Along with the dizziness, migrains, nausea, and stomach discomfort i have occassional hot flashes, anxiety, depression, sleep issues, ringing in my ears sometimes, breast pain, nipple tenderness, alternating constipation and loose movements, new allergies, gallbladder symptoms even though Ive had it removed, occassional cardiac issues that dont corrispond with a cardiac problem, and chills. My newest and scarriest concern right now is the stomach problems. They started a few weeks ago now and im nausious all the time and the reflux along with feeling like food is not moving along and that gross not quite painful but very uncompfortable feeling in my stomach with burping has got me really worried. I just took a nausea pill witha few swallows of milk and I feel bloated and burping. I have had so many tests over the last few years with having my gallbladder out and I really am hoping that this sounds familiar to some of you ladies so I can relax about it a little while waiting to get in with my doctor again. (who by the way thinks im over reacting). Thank you in advance.

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  • karen1550
    karen1550 lorin2362

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    PLEASE tell me there was a cream or a pill? SOMETHING? I have exact symptoms, gallbladder removed, partial hysterectomy 3 years ago, im now 55 , I have been sooooo sick for 8 months, getting my hormones checked in 2 weeks. please tell me there is a happy ending to your story, because I seriously feel like im slowly dying and its a miserable death.

  • katy16511
    katy16511 lorin2362

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    hi, i have so many symptoms of perimenopause even though my dr says my levels look fine. she prescribed me birth control to see if that would help and it did for a little while . now im back to feeling like crap off and on. i feel crazy as hell. then i swing back to feeling happy and fine. my gp prescribed me antidepressants and that made me feel even worse and suicidal. i dont know what the solution is. i want help i feel like im trapped in my body sometimes i used to have so much energy and now i dont im tired and i honestly just dont care. mine started a few years ago im 38 now. i started feeling anxious and completely overwhelmed by life i thought it was add. i had been prescribed adderall a long time ago in my early 20's bit didnt take it bc i didnt feel like i really needed it. around 35-36 yo i have 3 small kids, a business, a husband and a mortgage with all the things that go along with it. i got on adderall and it helped. i felt like i could see the world around me for the first time and i didnt feel overwhelmed. a couple of years later my hair started thinning bit before that happened i noticed that it got so unruly and frizzy. my periods became super heavy during this time too. the next symptoms were fatigue gall bladder issues then acne . sleep was weird i would feel tired but wired sometimes then other times i would feel so so tired . then my period was so light for almost a year. when the pandemic hit my stress level went up and my acne got horrible. thats when i got on the pill. let me mention too that all the years before all this started happening i could never take the pill because it made me feel crazy . it made me feel normal again when i forst started on it . the other big thing was sex drive. i had zero and still dont have much of one. i realize i have small kids and maybe i am in a season of life where that ebbs and flows and thats fine. but if i can be frank here, i have always been a complete hornball prior to all this.

    i just feel like whats the point? i feel like all my symptoms are screaming there is something obviously off but my numbers are okay so now what. if there is any dogging involved im certain it wont be discovered. i have always had tummy issues but the bloating has gotten worse. i am sure a good bit of that is my crap diet and lack of exercise but i am hanging on by a thread here and i eat when im hungry and whats available bc im a)too damn tired and b)too damn tired. i dont have the energy to think of something to make to eat. and the grocery store....i just cant. i used to love that place now i go in with high hopes only to fond the veggies brown and leaky a few weeks later in the fridge. im just un freaking done ladies. i dont know what will be the next thing.

    • Salesmanswidow
      Salesmanswidow katy16511

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      katy its all just too much isnt it im completely exhausted by it all, im dizzy, jelly legs, bloated, running to the loo on waking, no appetite, aching joints/muscles, back & pelvic pain on going for 7 months now motivation is zero oh yes & tired tired tired! i had bloods done & all find too but still question can our hormones really make us feel so ill its crazy! simple tasks like laundry or washing up are such an effort xxx

  • d60828
    d60828 lorin2362

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    OMG! This and the responses sound so familiar. I feel like I'm reading my own story. I'm 46 and fie about the last 6 months or so I've been feeling like crap! Anxiety, stomach issues, heart palpitations, body aches and pain and tired and low energy. Been back and forth to the doctor for all kinds of scans and blood work and everything keeps coming back normal. My periods gave started getting irregular, I'm really thinking its perimenopause. I feel horrible and I am praying that this doesn't last too much longer. It seems to be worse around a week or so before my period. Reading these stories helps me feel more normal. Thank you

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