Perimenopause or Anxiety or ???

Lol 2am haha xxx

Campervanqueen,

How long did it last for you?

Hi kim and campervanqueen, you have described the off balance exactly how i feel it is. when i walk out i feel i'm walking on marshmallows and feel i veer off to one side. I also feel i cant see properly, things are a little blurred but perhaps that's something to do with being anxious cos i'm out there alone. The head pressure and floating sensation yes i get that. its very strange ans unnerving. I hate it when i'm stood in a shop waiting to be served I feel i will tip forward on someone and jut want to get out. It just spoils any shopping or walking experience and i just don't tend to go so often now. Oh dear what next, at least we'v got each other to support and have a good moan to. Take care ladies hope you get a good nights sleep at least i'm not off balance in my sleep. x

Kim,

It changes, sometimes it can last days, sometimes a couple of weeks... Gets worse as I'm counting down to the dreaded period so will probably be on its way soon... My old friend vertigo!!! I wouldn't mind if I was drinking and feeling tipsy but I don't really drink!

Sharon xx

Campervanqueen

i have had insomia all the time, i go to bed about midnight then watch TV until 2 am .... i am the worst sleeper anyway... and I still have it now, its worse during peri and almost in year 9 of that... ( nightmare) I havent had a period since Aug 13 but feel like i may have one coming... get all the symptoms and nothing... in a way i hope it doesnt as then it will be yet another year ( 12 months of none they say full meno reached) but then I feel if I did I may feel better at the moment... I accept peri etc, its all normal but its been so long... my mum started hers at age 42 and was done and dusted 2 years later at age 44.. me i just dont get a break... 😞 but I am okay with it, just try and take the vits we need and no HRT ... just natural stuff, i have managed this far...

my old Doc said okay ... and that HRT its there if required, but I am abit high risk with family history... but he did say Calcium and Vit D a must... for bones etc, so I take Natecal and its has both... and the Estroven Max and the Maca, and B1 etc and the B6 to get... blimey...

as for sleep well terrible... this sounds crazy but I dont like the dark, i have a touch lamp and have it on the first setting at night in bedroom, just hate the pitch dark, especially when you need to get up for a peri wee.

😏 i know TV is bad at bedtime and light etc, but if I dont, i will just get up, and its worse to get up.. jayx

Hey anxiousface,

I know what you're saying with being in shops etc., makes me wary about going out sometimes. I work in a new building with three floors and when it's bad I'm like, oh no, gotta walk up the stairs (I'd rather fall down then than risk getting stuck in the lift - such a chicken).

I think it makes the anxiety worse too... When it's bad and I feel "off" it's almost like it heightens it... Does that make sense?

I'm starting to feel a little more normal reading the posts on here though... It's true, being able to talk to people about it makes all the difference xxx

Hugs to you xx

Sharon 😊

Thanks, ladies for the responses. Makes me feel a little less anxious knowing others feel this crazy dizziness sensation. It is so unsettling. Makes me fear something awful is going on inside my head.

Hugs to all

Jay,

It's funny how we differ from our parents - my mum passed away 17 months ago, just when I started having issues with my periods, unexpected bleed! It's gradually gone downhill from there but I just don't know when mum went through peri or meno. Thing is, I was suffering with fuzzy head etc a few months before the bleed happened.

I too would want to be natural. My mum and sister both had treatment for cervical cancer and mum passed of lung. I've never smoked and try and stay as healthy as possible so I've said to a nurse (a few weeks ago when she tried to put me on the pill) that I want to be as natural as possible. I don't want HRT because I know there are risks there somewhere. It's great to have an idea of what others experience and take as supplements though.

As for night light... I don't blame you. If it makes you more comfortable then do it. I find it difficult to sleep and have to be at the point of dropping off on the settee before I go to bed xxx not good with working 8 hours a day . I don't like the silence so sleep with a fan, which at the moment isn't a bad thing (woke up with night sweats last night - bed was soaked) but if the power goes out and the fan goes off, bang, awake! silence at night is not good.

Thanks for sharing with me... It is really helping me work out what I want to say to my doctor.

Sharon xxx

Kim,

Exactly how it makes me feel too.... Makes anxiety worse and with that it gives you headaches and makes you think... Oh goodness, what is wrong with me... You think you're seriously ill xxx

Hugs to you xxx

campervanqueen..

bless you...

re: night sweats... i got those very early on in peri, they were my first clue... ( along with 21 months of continuous bleeding, flooding, spotting with out much if a break in between) I use to wake wet through, I lay on my sise and my leg use to slip off the other with sweat... but they pass, i also got the hot flush sometimes during day, and still get the odd one, more so when I have the period symptoms now and no period, i tend to get a couple, but then I am okay again for 2 or 3 weeks, I never have night sweats now.. but have more headaches than i would like, and dizzy, wobbly fog head days, sometimes people talk to me and i have to look like i am listening hahahaha 😃 cant concentrate on their conversation, I think peri makes you less interested in alot of things, seems to take my brain longer to process things these days... soon get in a fuddle ... Jayx

Jay,

The night sweats are starting to become more apparent and I do get the flushes during the day too booooo!,,

I know exactly what you're saying about the fuzzy heads.. It's almost like being in a daydream and you go through the day not really knowing what you're doing xxx I sometimes find it difficult to get my words out.. They are on the tip of my tongue and I know what I want to say but they won't come out... Very peculiar. I think people have got used to me looking at them in a way which says 'huh, I'm not with it today' hehe xxx

I am just the same..... i pause alot before getting words out.... 😃 and say ' oh now let me think ' so it doesnt look that obvious 😃 Jay x

Ah, I will have to remember that one lol. I've been suffering with that for a long time, then the issues with periods, then the night sweats and gradually feeling like poo leading up to periods... So much nausea

yep thats the one, i never used to feel sick when younger, the last period i had last Aug I was awful, I had 4 days of migraine, would not go, thumping head day and night, felt as sick as a pig, appetite zilch, as felt so sick, keep taking deep breaths sighing all the time, mind you i do that now 😏 ... your not alone... its all part of it ..

Jay x

For anyone having issues with insomnia, try 1oz of concentrated tart cherry juice a half an hour before bedtime. All natural and is a natural source of melatonin. Also is a natural anti inflammatory. Also black cohosh is great for hot flashes and night sweats. There are different kinds out there for different body types, is: thick or thin. Evening primrose oil also may be helpful. Hope this helps someone.