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Perimenopause/Menopause and shortness of breath/chest tightness/ Belching

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Gypsy014
Gypsy014

Anyone have the symptoms of shortness of breath with chest tightness, (air hunger) with lots of belching after eating? If so please describe... And does it get better? Mine started like 3 weeks ago and it's awful feels like i can't get a deep enough breath.

I'm also experiencing food allergies/sensitivities also to soaps and flowers and different smells, all make me choke/ cough and feels like chest tightness. Never ever have I had asthma in my life but feels like it now! My anxiety/ panic attacks are bad, antibodies are high for rheumatoid arthritis, and hashimotos, just don't know how to deal with all these new symptoms that keep getting thrown at me other than to sit and cry, cry cry! Anyone else having similar issues??? Are these symptoms all consistent with the menopause change??

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  • cheryl48968
    cheryl48968 Gypsy014

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    Hello

    I am glad to have found this page and see I'm not alone. I have been to hospital a few times. Lots of tests and nothing. Shortness of breath...tight chest and throat and chronic panic attacks. This all came on suddenly after missing one period at 52.

    I am suppose to travel overseas in 6 weeks but worried how I will fly. Anyone travelled while this has been happening?

    I feel for you all. It is really hard going through this stuff...trying to go to work and do normal things...

    • michelle97919
      michelle97919 cheryl48968

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      HI HUN

      I travelled to Greece while like it two years ago for my 50th

      I didnt think i would make it but i did

      It wasnt easy but you can do it

      These symptoms are terrifying

      Im post meno by 18 months had a 10 year peri

      Sad to say symptoms are still with me x

    • cheryl48968
      cheryl48968 michelle97919

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      Thank you. That's encouraging plus also scarey how long this can last. I'm suppose to be going to Spain to walk the camino. I don't want to give in to fear but need to be realistic too. The doc prescribed antidepressants to help with panic attacks hope they kick in soon. I can't have HRT because I get blood clots from pills with estrogen.

  • angela29900
    angela29900 Gypsy014

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    I'm 40 and some of the same symptoms just came on me all of a sudden. I get shortness of breathe, night sweats..I can't taste anything..don't know when my cycle is coming. I have tingling and numbness in my feet and hands...also feel tired and weakness sometimes.

    • Hepzee39
      Hepzee39 angela29900

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      hi angela

      how long did it take for your taste to come back. i am currently suffering this and have done for the past week. thanks x

    • shelli18660
      shelli18660 angela29900

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      I am 40 as well and just started really having symptoms about 3 months ago. I have the numbness in my hands and feet and breathlessness too. Have you had a hot flash yet? I don't know what's worse, the night sweats or the hot flashes! Let's hang in there together!!

  • anna79086
    anna79086 Gypsy014

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    Hi,

    I wonder if you ever got any answers about the shortness of breath. I hope you're feeling better. I'm 48 and have very irregular periods now. During the last week or so I've also had this air hunger feeling. It's like I constantly want to yawn and can only do it successfully every once in a while and most of the time I'm generally feeling like I can't take a deep enough breath. I'd be interested to know if you got any more information.

    Thanks

    • lisa43234
      lisa43234 anna79086

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      mine was definitely related to low oestrogen, my HRT had failed. this led to severe anxiety. the air hunger you have mentioned is a common issue with anxiety. hope you feel better soon.

    • lesley55485
      lesley55485 anna79086

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      Hi, I've been experiencing the same symptoms of shortness of breath. I've figured out it's worse at certain times in my cycle. The struggle to try and get air in is scary. That tight feeling like someone's sat on my chest. I'm asthmatic but it doesn't feel like that type of breathlessness. Has anyone had any joy with any type of treatment? Has anyone found HRT has helped? It's also causing my anxiety to worsen, was prescribed propranolol last year after a breakdown, so have taken 1 of those on the occasion when the breathing has been bad. They help, I just don't like the spaced out, tired nausea they cause.

    • margaret92262
      margaret92262 lesley55485

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      Hi, I went on to HRT, 2 tablets, estrogen and progesterone, aged 45, and it seemed to relieve all my symptoms.

      HOWEVER, I have tried to go off the HRT many times and within a couple of weeks the symptoms are back. I have been told the HRT just puts the menopause "on hold" which means that now, at 72, when I go off the HRT the symptoms are back. Currently experiencing 5-15 hot flushes a day after 8 months without HRT and trying to ride it out. Not fun.

    • moira93059
      moira93059 anna79086

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      I think that what some of us have developed is an overreaction to histamine.

      I need this to be confirmed by a specialist but unfortunately this is not the best time to have it done during the current pandemic.

      Whether it is allergies triggering histamine release or the histamine in food, it seems to be histamine related and our inability to clear it up efficiently.

      Progesterone is a good histamine cleaner and this too declines at our age.

      SSRIs seem to work for some people, again they have powerful antihistamine properties.

      Of course there must be more to it, but I noticed that when I eat mature cheese I am at my worst (breathlessness, night sweats, vertigo). Tinned sardines give me severe nausea. These are high histamine foods.

      Last time I took cough syrup with codeine I thought I was dying (histamine liberator).

      I also think I am allergic to my poor cat, whose been my friend for the past ten years.

      I found DAO enzymes seem to help and I am currently sipping fennel seeds tea.

      Not confirmed by a specialist but worth investigating.

      Love to you all xx

  • Panamabuck
    Panamabuck Gypsy014

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    I am so relieved to have stumbled on this forum! I feel as if I have been going crazy this year. Tingling sensations, shortness of breath, chest pains, heartburn, awful muscle tension, night sweats. I have had every test conducted and docs say i am healthy as a horse. How can that be when I feel like Im dying? I turn 50 this Nov, still have periods but they are irregular now. I tried estroven, evening primrose, vitamin D, still no relief. I spent 26 years in the military and I tell you I would rather battle enemy forces then this perimenopause!

    • Gypsy014
      Gypsy014 Panamabuck

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      yes I get all the same symptoms ! we are same age I will be 50 in January no sign of relief yet.. this is a daily battle for sure...

  • margaret92262
    margaret92262 Gypsy014

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    Hi, new to this forum. I am 72 years old and hot flushes and night sweats are still making my life miserable. Hit menopause at 42, put up with it for a few years then went onto HRT. Relieved the symptoms and I was happy for a number of years until the cancer/heart disease scare started. Tried to go off the HRT, life was miserable again so back on it. Tried again a few years later, same result. I have been told the HRT just puts the symptoms "on hold". I went off the HRT again 8 months ago and decided to just see it out, but 5 to 10 hot flushes daily makes me wonder if it is worth the effort.

    Does anyone have any information to disprove this theory, or think that the flushes are not menopausal? Thanks for any advice.

    • Gypsy014
      Gypsy014 margaret92262

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      Hi there are you just able to stay on your hrt then sounds like its helped you all these years I guess why stop a good thing if all is well and working for you.. or I have heard many woman switching over to bio identical hormones and that working just as well.. I was never a candidate for the hrt , maternal grandmother had breast cancer and I had a hysterectomy at 27 for pre cancer cells dysplasia was on cervix but never made it to the uterus,,, so doctors said to risky for me... I am miserable everyday with all my symptoms...they come and go and repeat like groundhogs day..

    • candice49502
      candice49502 margaret92262

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      body identical hrt orstrogel and utrogestin have very low risk look at dr louise newson the menopause doctor loads of really good facts on her web site

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