Peri menopause and ibs?

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I'm 46 and seem to be starting peri menopause. A couple of months ago I got painful breasts before and during my period, although I haven't usually had this before, my doctor said it's peri menopause and suggested I take starflower oil. I got a high dose tablet of 1300mg and my symptoms definately were better, but after taking it for 5 weeks I realised it was causing a stomach churning acidy feeling so had to stop taking it. This month I've had wierd symptoms of a very bloated stomach and ibs, but breasts not too bad. I suffer with ibs anyway, but this has been quite bad bloating, I'm day 2 of my period and the bloating is a lot less but still slightly there. Does anyone else get this? Thanks for any input.

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    Hi Anna.  Yes, definitely.  I've had a few months where the bloating was a lot more than I was used to.  It usually goes away and it's not all the time.  The sore breasts happen a lot, but have improved over the past 18 months when I first started all of this.   My breasts were so sore a couple of time I got a lymphatic massage to try to help get fluid moving and maybe help with the pain and swelling.  I haven't had it that bad in a while.  I take 400 mg of vitamin E daily.   I am 45.

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      Thanks so much for your reply, its good to know you have similar problems to me, I've got bad anxiety so it helps to be reassured. I'm going to try some other supplements to help I think, my stomach bloating  has not felt good. 🙄

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    In peri I got random bloating, quite noticable bloating it would literally bloat up and go down
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      I have got it every evening  since Thursday and I started my period yesterday. Been taking colpermin in the evening. Very anxious though so probably making it worse! 😂

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    I will take the physical symptoms over the anxiety any day!!  The mental stuff is torture because it's very hard to control.

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