Perimenopause and SEVERE joint pain - any one else??

It looks like the story of my life, lol down to the awful taste in your mouth at times,, Im so stiff at times that its hard to get around,,it looks like your post was 5 years ago, did you get any help from this? as i am still having these issues..

Hi Lesley hope you are ok .

I'm Vanessa by the way haha and yes after having to have a hysterectomy several years ago I had to go on HRT but I seem to be experiencing all the symptoms you have and my GP has said it's because I am anxious all the time and can't settle so my body's not resting when I am sleeping but I just can't except this .

Have you seen anybody yet about what's happening to you it's horrible isn't it .

Thank you look forward to hearing from you x

I started with knee pain when I stopped the HRT6 yrs. ago.  Two yrs. ago I began the cortisone shots in the knees 6 MThs. apart.  Three times than I looked up anything at all that is inflammatory that we eat.  I stopped Grapeseed oil that I used occasionally for cooking, cut out Anything with Soy.  Soy is in many things.  Stopped red meat, maybe once a mth. I like red meat.  Does anyone know if Pork is still considered Red Meat?  Pain in joints is gone, no more shots, x-rays of knee are great.  Still with swelling maybe from something else?  Did I get better suddenly from nothing or did the reduction in inflammatory foods help?  Don't know.  I am going to ask  Dr. on soon to be appointment about HRT again due to other symptoms could be related to no estrogen, I have no health issues related to use of HRT doing harm.  Glad all of you are in here, it helps.  Kathy

Hi Lesley 

I was so relieved  when I fell upon this site as I felt like many of you that I was going crazy with the muscle pains and symptoms I have been feeling ! It all started about 6 months ago at 49 when the perimenapause kicked in with hot flushes dry skin dry eyes etc. after a bad cold and cough I suddenly got right sided chest pain and after a visit to A&E and many tests ( gladly not heart attack!) found to have deep thoracic muscle tear. OMG the pain it caused !  

That then led to arm pain , currently I'm seeing physio's for arms and shoulder pains now which are so bad that I cannot reach over my head and working  12 hr shifts is really getting me tired and low.

But on a possative note I'm now on HRT so watch this space as I'm feeling so confident through what I've read on this forum that my pains will go xxxx heres hoping anyway! 

Hi Lesley you could have been writing about me! I have had very similar symptoms as yourself although my joint pain is not as painful as yours. I am wondering how you are doing 5 years later? I have not gone to a dr yet as we have just moved and I am on a wait list. 

Hope I hear that u r problem free!

I'm sooo glad I've come across this post! I think I may have made an appointment with the wrong doctor. I'm reading these replies and I'm a bit younger; 44. However, I have all those symptoms. I made an appointment with my GP and it seems like I need to cancel and make an appointment with my Gynecologist instead. I got a little emotional reading these as well because now I have a strong clue on what's going on with my body. All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Hello from the US and thank you all for posting! I started estrogen replacement two weeks ago and it has been awesome - no more hot flashes, more energy, better focus - except the joint and muscle pain is awful! I really don't want to stop HRT because it has been so beneficial, but I can't get through the day without taking NSAIDS, and I know that can't go on forever. It is the worst in the morning,and I have to take ibuprofen or naproxen as soon as I wake up, and it takes at least an hour before I can really move and start my day. Has anyone else found relief from the pain without stopping the estrogen?

Thank you for sharing. I am 50 years old, work out and am relatively a healthy person. In the last few weeks I have been experiences horrible lower back pain, throbbing in my joints on my hands and a limited ability to be flexible, as I have always been. What is going on?! I know I am getting up there in age ; however, doesn't my working out and health conscious diet help. If it doesn't and this is how I am to feel going forward- F-it and I will go back to crazy college days and not feel AWFUL.  Am I really going through menopause???? How terribly eye opening and just plain eewww.... thanks to all ??

Hi Lesley, 

I have many of your symptoms and my GP sent me to a Rheumatolgist. After blood work was done, they ruled out Rheumatoid arthritis or Lupus but she did say she believed it was Fibromyalgia. My body takes turns with where it decides to hurt for the day, often being several places. I have terrible trouble with stairs and stiffness when getting up from any seated position. Sometimes the pain radiates or feels sharp. Mostly though it is a dull painful ache that keeps me from doing what I need to do- be active.

I was prescribed a medication called Gabapentin, brand name Neurontin. It made me sleepy for the first few days but now it is a great help.  I hope you find some relief!

Hi all, 

I'm 49 1/2 , oveweight UK teacher.

Just left a very stressful job. 

Started with daytime hot flushes age 44, not nightime sweats thank goodness - just feel too hot most of the time

mild vaginal dryness, itchyness. Felt a riht  insult after years of epensive and failed  IVF left us without children 

At 48 periods on and off, never heavy , just got lighter. They stopped for 4 months and I noticed severe joint stiffness, but didnt connect the dots. Where periods started again, joint stiffness went. 

This year periods stopped in April and almost immediately I started with severe joint pain again. Even sitting down for ten mins means I cant walk or get up, I am like a 100 year old woman, my 70 year old mother has much better mobility than me - she didnt hit memo until 55.  This has combined with what I think is a torn cartlige in left knee.  Over the summer joint stiffness was so bad, despite me not being at work, that husband had to put my shoes on, I cant walk in the mornings, in fact I cant really walk at all. I can cycle.

Pain is in  Shoulders, Jaw,  lower and upper back, hips, knees and feet. 

Friends have suggested Fibro  or Lupus as well as peri/meno

If I wake in the night I literally cannot to our loo downstairs. My jaw is so bad I have to wear a um guard at night as I have started 'chomping' in my sleep.

in the last few days i noticed  renewed  vaginal dischage ( been dry for a few months) and with that ( with the exception of bad knee) my joints feel less stiff ( though its hard to tell when i'm hobbling with bad knee) 

i am sure this is a temp 'up' in oestrogen and totally proves to me that it is hormone related.

Im taking

multi vit

chondroitin and lucosamine

vegan omega 3

hylauronic acid

devils claw

probiotics

but i think i need HRT. 

Can anyone recommend low dose HRT that I could take for ten year, that is not animal based. 

I am overweight and I have a very large bust ( 38 J) which means I would find it hard to feel any lumps at an early point. 

~i cant see how I can carry on teaching for another 17 years feeling like this when every day is a struggle. 

help ladies :-)

 

Wow this was posted 5 years ago hope you get this and can still answer me lol...well I was wanting to ask if u can have hrt because I was on the depo prevera injection for 7 years and had to come off it due to been in the menapourse. I came off it in December 2016 and April could not get out of bed with pain , my pain is more in my neck and I have tingly feelings down my arm and hands very stiff in mornings ...my neurologist said i have osteoarthritis in the neck and I was wondering if hrt tablets would help with this pain ..as I can not go on like this it goes right up its my head .I was wondering if hrt is the answer as my estrogen is low .

Thank you for your post. I have been dealing with all of the same thing with the exception of the bad taste. Did the doctor suggest progesterone cream to help with the estrogen levels?