Perimenopause or Anxiety or ???

I too get the lightheadedness. It feels very, very hormone-related as it is just like the lightheadedness I have always gotten starting about two days before my period. The difference is that now it just comes on, even if a period doesn't result. So yes, I think this is a very common thing. I have heard an awful lot of peri women mention it.

But here goes...

I CAN NOT STAND my smell any more. I don't smell "bad", but...I just can't explain it. I smell...different. Yeaughhhhh. I am clean, very clean. It's just almost a foreign or new smell to me. I had something very similar when I was pregnant. I could "smell" myself when nobody else could. I'm talking about my skin, etc., I'm not getting gross here or anything.

For me, I definitely know that's related to hormones, due to my pregnancy experience of it. I know for sure I am not pregnant, by the way.

So just another weirdness...I feel like with peri, I'm having to introduce myself to my body all over again. It's like a warped form of puberty. :p

when one day I started to have this feeling of a lumpy throat, well I then convinced myself that I had the same! so I went to the GP and he checked me over etc and said that it was acid reflux and anxiety. Then in the Jan I missed my period, it was due on the 17th but on the 25th I woke up feeling really low and that morning and when I passed stools I had a bleed. Well I was beside myself with fear that it was cancer, went to the GP and she checked me over and was happy and sent me away.

For the next two weeks I loss my appetite and didn't want to see anyone during this time so I just sat and worried myself sick that there was something more sinister going on so I booked myself a complete health check at a Bupa hospital which covers comprehensive bloods and heart and lungs etc. I was told that all was ok, so started to feel more at ease. My period came on the 7th Feb and my mood lifted and I began to feel back to my normal bubbly confident self. My periods there after came each month and I didn't experience any PMS at any time, until June 10th when I started to feel really low again and the worrying kicked in again, I had this really weird feeling that something inside didn't feel right, and again couldn't see anyone and sat and worried myself, kept crying for feeling this way.

Again once my period finally arrived, I felt my happy self again. Within two weeks this brewed up again. A friend told me about serenity cream that you could buy from wellsprings and it is a natural Progestrone cream which you rub in on fatty and thinned areas morning and bedtime. This has now given me more regular periods and I was fine until Nov when my cycle went slightly out of balance as I came on at 21 days. Since all of the above began my worrying has gone on overdrive and when I feel out of source I seem to fear the worst ie cancer again! I never used to sit and worry about things to this degree prior to Nov 12. I had a mammogram and had my hormone levels checked and even had a blood test re ovarian cancer, all came back as normal.

Why is it that some of us experience such worrying issues and others just do not sit and panic about things but just get on with their lives and believe it will pass? Since last year I some times wake up feeling sick and also my sinus do flare up in the mornings and what with feeling of catarrh in my throat this also makes me feel sick. Recently I do not seem to be able to eat Pork or have things like fish and chips because of thegreasiness (things which I have always enjoyed before) I do not fry any foods and either bake or grill, eatvegetables but not fruit, enjoy a glass of wine and nibbles.

But on the whole I think I eat well, balance between fish and meat. This week I went to the GP because of this feeling of wanting or being sick with pork etc and also mentioned the sinus issue aswell. She said to me that the hormone changes and anxiety and the sinus could cause the nausea feeling and said brought on by acid reflux they were all connected so prescribed me with omeprazole.

I was prescribed with HRT back in Jan which I have bought but not started yet but am seriously thinking of starting them when my period arrives (due today onwards). The GP said that this will balance my hormones and in turn hopefully bring things back to some sort of normality.

On looking back my anxiety blips only seem to occur when either I have missed a period or they become shorter ie 15 days or even 21 day cycles. I have also tried acupuncture to relax me, also reflexology and have even had reiki. I think this particular cycle may even be out of balance as I have started worrying myselfagain about my health. I have always been such a positive and confident person so am really struggling tounderstand these worrying thoughts. How can someone change so much? Thank you for listening to me and most importantly for understanding these strange feelings of worry etc. Have any of you experience these things? I brought a Ladycare magnet to see this would help, not so sure though, but I have started usingcoconut oil for cooking to see if this will help with my tummy issues. I take starflower, Vit B complex, Menapol plus to see if any things will help. I have a lovely hubby who is being supportive and also a lovely friend is going through the peri but not suffering like we all seem to be, but she is really lovely at putting my mind at rest. Joy xxx

And even given how few fibroids turn out to be cancer, it may not even be fibroids.

I am thinking of you! I am happy to send a little prayer your way.

feeling the same now for about 3 years with really bad anxiety aswel as all the other symptoms been back

and forth to the doctors and have been told lots of different things, but am convinced its my hormones

making me feel so unwell daily. i had my hormone levels checked and was told they up and down.

could it be that i'm perimenopausal or just anxiety.

After 2 family members died within months of each other, both from cancer, every single family member, one after the other, became convinced that they had cancer too. I call it hysterical hypochondria - you're more acutely aware of how dangerous and fragile life is, we all get frightened. It will pass. You can focus instead on the remarkable resilience and beauty of life, from every dewdrop filled lupin leaf to the smell of apple blossom in May. Sometimes you face the worst thing you could imagine and find strength.

Bad news finds you quick enough, why waste time worrying?

Stand outside in the rain, close your eyes and feel the sun on your skin, swim in the sea.

Write all your thoughts down, set fire to the paper or throw it away on a wave.

Read.

You've been busy, living your life, and nature is now rudely asserting itself and you're frightened at what's happening to you, and that's complicated by what's happening to your friend. You're going to be ok again one day and throat cancer is survivable - we lost 2 family members to cancer but the one with aggressive throat cancer survived.

I'm really sorry you're in a bad place now but have faith, it will pass.

News will find us soon enough!.

I have just come back from visiting a really lovely friend who I haven't seen in a long while, she asked if I had started taking the HRT and I replied not yet, the reason she asked this was because I looked more like myNormal bubbly self, and in return I said to her it was because of her!! She is a very dear friend in which we both helped each other through our divorces 16 years ago and were each other's rock! What I am trying to say that your friends are the ones who don't judge you and always want you to be really happy and will always be there for you in good and bad times! Tonight I walked into her home and she gave me a lovely big hug and I suddenly felt all of worries lift away.

So my goal to myself is to make more time for my lovely friends, mine was a real tonic to me tonight!! And truly didn't realise how much I had missed seeing her! Thank you once again for all of your support and together we shall beat this and when we believe that we are not a lone fighting this difficult time of lives andthere will be a massive big light at the end of the tunnel for us allXxx