Perimenopause and SEVERE joint pain - any one else??

Try progesterone cream I have and omg the benefits are actually amazing. I started the hot flush a year ago and within months of the first was a walking fountain if I didn't work from home I would have had to have stopped working. I then progressed to the joint pain all over body including the jaw, sit down for a few mins and struggle to move felt like a 90year old. My neck still clicks loudly at times and my hands can hurt like hell but the cream I use seriously it is remarkable the difference it has made to me is fantastic its expensive from my point of view and I was a sceptic till I was so at the point of despair I just went for it. Progesterone cream is brilliant go for a good quality one and try it for yourself.

I brought 1 jar out of desperation I now buy packs of 4. My peri came in like a steam train and now its like a fiat 500.

I was so glad to stumble upon your post. I have been experiencing joint pain which came on literally overnight. Like you visited a young female GP and was told ‘old age’  (I’m 54) and prior to joint problems , exercised regularly and I am on HRT but doesn’t appear to be helping to alleviate my symptoms. I was wondering what treatment you have since received?

Hi Lesley. Sorry, I know that your post was a long time ago now, but it was very interesting and the only thing I've managed to find which describes some of my symptoms, so I was wondering how you are now.

My story so far. 3 years ago I started having a strange taste in my mouth and some dryness. Nothing improved it and I couldn't work out what was causing it. I went to the hospital to have it checked and they just said that it was dryness and it happens some times. It's still there - sometimes it's worse, but it never goes away.

I had 3 Mirena coils one after the other - a total of 16 years and never really had periods over that time. I had it taken out in May this year (when I was 51). I had a period in Sept and one 3 weeks later, but nothing since.

I've had aches in one of my sacroilliac joints for a few years - gardening/running caused the problem, but it would always go away if I rested it. Over the last year, it's got worse and never really settled totally, but wasn't at all bad. I can't quite remember when, but probably in August or Sept of this year my spine started cracking. It was worse in the lumbar area, but would go up the spine to. It seemed to be worse when a bent towards the side of my bad SI joint. About 6 weeks ago I started getting cracking in other joints too - ankes, wrists, knees, shoulders, neck. So I decided to go to a chiropractor. He said that my SI joint was pretty immobile and so the rest of my spine was hypermobile. I went to see him 3 times and each time he tried to crack the SI joint. On the last visit it made a real cracking sound and was pretty painful afterwards. That was about 3 weeks ago. I went back to see him to say it was all getting worse - more painful and that the lumbar spine was now starting to hurt and I could feel the vertebrae catching on each other. He sent me for an xray and it seems that I have a slipped L5 vertebrae - called splondylothesis. He said to go back and see him in the new year to discuss the options for treatment.

Anyway, every day it seems to be getting worse and I can't sit down without the lumbar spine feeling painful.

I'm due to see a female GP on 28th.

So, I realise I have a mechanical problem in my spine, but I'm also very concerned about quickly this has all happened and I'm wondering if the hormone changes have caused the joint cracking. I haven't had any other menu symptoms e.g. hot flushes/mood swings.

What I really would like to know from you is whether going on HRT helped with your joint cracking/pain and how you are now.

Sorry for such a long message, but I thought it best to give you the history!

Many thanks.

Judy.

Hi Lesley. It's very reassuring what you have written. I have noticed stiffness in my ankles and fingers but for the last couple of days my right wrist is so painful. I already have sciatica in my back but that seems worse some mornings too. I have been having really heavy periods for about two years now where I just flood through everything with no warning. I have now been started on medication for this so see what happens this month when I start taking it. No joke this menopause is it with all the feelings we experience. 

Hi Lesley

I am 51 and so grateful for your post. At last someone with the same symptoms.

Mine started in my neck and lower legs/feet. It takes a number of steps to 'warm up'/walk flat feet in the mornings. I've been for physio and seen my GP but it was diagnosed as inflamation from running.

In August it started in my right hand pinkie and later spread to the entire right hand. It's worse while Im sleeping but gets better during the day when I start using the hand. I even struggle to lift the kettle. Recently my left hand joined in and my elbows. Besides the pain and discomfort it feels like my hands are swollen but its not.

I thought it might be due to knitting and crocheting and even stopped that for a few weeks but nothing changed.

Now I realise its all connected and thanks to you what the cause might be.

Waiting for my estrogen results...

Thanks a mil.

Any remedy suggestions?

I see that nobody has commented on this thread for a couple of years now. I'm just at the beginning (peri) of my menopausal journey. I was wondering how the women who had complained of symptoms 2-5 years ago are feeling now? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? HRT or no HRT? That is the question! Anyone out there willing to give us an update please 🙏?? I'm 50 in November and current symptoms are elbow and foot arch pain though I fed there are many more to come....

I’ve been reading your post and all of the comments and I’ve got to say it’s really interesting. 

I’m 39 and I have been put through the menopause in a brutal way with no help, basically, I went In for a fibroid removal ( but opted for the hysterectomy and to leave my ovaries) and the results came back as I had uterine cancer. 

Luckily they managed to get it all so didn’t need chemotherapy but this meant I had to go back In a few weeks later and have my ovaries removed. 

I have a 15yr old a 12yr old and a 3 yr old and I’m struggling to cope, my husband works away all week so I’m on my own. 

The tiredness is awful but the pain is unbearable.

My knees and In my neck and fingers especially. I can’t wash and dry my hair properly because my arms ache so badly, I can’t get comfortable at night as everything aches. 

My tumour tested positive to hormone treatments so they’ve said it’s not wise for me to have it. 

I’m at the point that I’d rather have it and risk getting cancer eventually than to carry on suffering like this. 

Can anyone please help?