Nervous about Hormones testing

Anxiety, heart palps, head pressure, hot flashes, bad gas, acid reflux, crawly and dry skin, dry hair, low back ache, trembling and shaky, nausea, internal buzzing and shaking especially when I wake up, doom and gloom, no libido at all. They pretty much come and go. But when it happens, I'm a mess.

Same symptoms for me! Where is you head pressure? Have you had a brain scan? 

Mines is like the top of my head and sometimes feels like I'm under water. I had a head scan and was told all was ok.

Sure sounds like fluctuating hormones to me.

I have two sisters one who's 6 years older than me and one a year younger, I'm 52

My older sister is post meno now and my younger sister is in peri, I don't know where I am lol as I've been on so many different HRTs , long story short I'm now on 3rd day of livial, I was taking these last year for a few months, I've went back on them as I think they are a bit gentler, less side effects than traditional HRTs

Anyway, the point I was going to make is I'm fed up with being judged for saying I feel so ill with all of these symptoms, particularly the balance problem, anxiety, depression and chronic stiff neck

Both my sisters had different symptoms to me and they just don't understand how debilitating some of the symptoms are, they were bothered more with hot flushing and migraine (I have migraine today but don't have them often, thinks it's just the new tablet)

I've read that 25% of woman have virtually no symptoms during this change, 50% have hot flushes and sweating as they're main symptoms and an unfortunate 25% of woman have the full shabang all at once some really bad neurological symptoms I.e the head pressure, off balance etc

Try and console yourself that one day soon this will be over. Anxiety always makes everything worse so try and keep as calm as possible, basically just feel the fear and do it anyway attitude

I hope you find something that eases your symptoms soon Jamie

Keep posting and let us know how your doing

Love

Brenda X

Thank you Brenda. I keep telling myself that. I felt a panic attack coming on today and I tried not to react to it. I came amd laid down to just deal with it and let it pass over. I did check some of the blood work and the cholesterol. All of that was normal. Just waiting for the cortisol, FSH, LSH, and thyroid to come back.

You'll be ok Jamie, we're all in this club together, just console yourself that no matter how bad you feel it will pass just try not to focus on symptoms, I get myself into a state as well phoning everyone looking for reassurance but tbh, my sisters just got fed up with me and stopped answering my calls or returning texts so I've just had to learn to reassure myself

Just give us a shout if you need to

Take care x

That's what I have learned to do. I got tired of telling people how I felt and they were sick of hearing it. So now I just go to myself and deal with it. It passes over, just crazy going through it.

I know how you feel. I'm really tired of going to docs telling my spill only to be looked at like I don't know what I'm talking about. I hope the supplements bring you some relief.

Do the jerking muscles happen when you start to fall asleep? This has been happening to me for a couple of months now, and none of the doctors will even address it. 

i've been getting tht for the last two months.....i thought i was post menopause since i hadnt had a period since sept 2014 but then 10 days ago spotting and now a flow but not enough to cover a pad ...set up appt w/ gyn for next week as i hav not been in 10 years..i know thats bad but i'm very overweight and i hate going..i'm 53 yrs old...i thougth i finished when i was 50 then had the small period in sept 2014 and nothing since...but each time i got it my daughter who is now 21 was on her period..weird.  i am hoping it is just a hormone surge....but i'm scared and i have to QUIT googling this b/c i've already put myself in the grave by doing so...every little pain, ache i attribute to being cancer...i'm phobic right now...glad to have this forum to vent.  hope allgoes well for you and everyone.

Kathleen, I agree with the googling. Scares the pants off me when I read things!

Michelle - That's how I was, had symptoms and just assumed peri and then went to GP with panic and she said yeah, it's probably peri, and that was pretty much it until this year.  I didn't go to a gyn at that point, I just thought they'd say it was all normal and send me home.  Thanks to the ovarian mass, now I've got all kinds of attention, but still no solution for the anxiety.

Yes they do. It's weird.

I can't help on the period subject, since I had an ablation done in 2013, and no periods since. But, I can say, I have always hated going to the gyno too. It is a necessary evil though. Get yourself in there ASAP! I have been having head pressure/ pain up over left eye, down behind ear, and into neck , and I have an MRI scheduled for Monday. I had myself convinced it is a brain tumor, based off google too . After reading these forums, I see others have had this issue also, and their scans came back normal, so I am banking on that! It is scary, but we are all in this together, and share so many symptoms. Please get to the gyno, and save yourself the anxiety! 

I stopped googling. I can't deal with it. I diagnosed myself with everything. It ramped my anxiety through the roof.

Right!? When they told me I had this cyst on my ovary, it all pointed to ovarian cancer. Im still a wreck from reading that and I won't calm down until after the results from that cyst are in and they tell me it isn't cancer. 

At least you got that far. I just keep I'm too young, my cycles are still considered normal, and I'm depressed. I refuse to keep going to docs to keep hearing the same thing. The new doc was pretty ok so far. So I will see how things go after the rest of the test come back.

Hi Kathleen,

I hadn't had one for some time I thought it was all over, my daughter returned home from Canada and I started one a few days after her.

We were always at the same time before she started birth control pill, it's called menstrual synchrony.

hi zigangie, thanks for the reply.  my daughter is on birth control and was having her period....the time before in sept 2014 she had just ended her period.  i have heard of menstrual synchrony i'm wondering if her being with me for most of that week and near me had something to do with it ...lol..it is a weird phenomenon (sp?).....i'm going to stay away from her for a while...lol...its good to know other women experience the same thing but i'm getting myself to the gyn next week...on thurs is my appt ...my hubby says no excuses b/c i'm driving him nuts with the worry.....crying last night and just feeling every pain in the body there is .....nutcase!

Aww Snowbell, I know it's nerve wrecking waiting on results. It causes much anxiety. I'm thinking positive that all will be fine and its not cancerous.