Please help is this perimenopause ?

Hi, Marcia: Sounds like peri to me. It hit me at 48. That's a good number for it too for when it hits. Hit my mom at 48 also. I didn't know what peri was. It first started with me with shoulder pain. Which I ignored for several months and powered through. Then one day I was home and in the middle of the day. I had to lay down and sleep. I was extremely tired like never before and I've never had to lie down during the day due to that happening. Couple days later I collapsed at home. Started with extreme anxiety and panic attacks. I had burred vision, extreme vertigo and when I walked it was like I was drunk. I had a lot of neck, arm and leg pain. All I can say is that I was told it couldn't be meno because I hadn't stopped my cycle. That's not true. Peri is real and seems not many doctors acknowledge it and diagnose you with anxiety and depression instead like mine had at first. You will know if you need help. I didn't want to take meds but, I had to. I was a crying mess. I tried 2 meds and they didn't work. Tried without meds for 6 months and my symptoms got worse. I'm on my 3rd now and I just have to wait for a few months to see if this works. You have the option for HRT too but, for me that wasn't an option. Walking has improved my physical symptoms 100 percent. It was so freakin hard some days to get out of bed but, you have to. This site is great for info and the ladies are so caring. They have all really helped me since this transition hit. I wish you all the best. Hang in there. You are not alone. xo

I have these very same sort of symptoms. What I find scary is that I do get cold icy hands and feet, I sometimes look pale with it as well, like my circulation is poor. It is worse around my periods and ovulation. I used to get really badly shaky and weak with it too. That is easing off most of the time but I still get the heart jumping around like a fish in my chest, heat is central to the body when I have the icy hands and feet and I do get short of breath sometimes. I sometimes feel I may pass out as well. I haven't though. I also get chills after as well. I am 46 years old, these particular symptoms have been with me for about 2.5 years now. So over this 😦 Kind of think I would prefer hot flashes

Hi Marcia... your symptoms sound prefectly normal to me, well as normal as can be. Definitely sounds like peri to me.

Mine started around 3 years ago at the age of 41. Lovely... not!! I too had absolutely no idea what was going on and had never even heard of Perimenopause.

It hit me really hard and made me feel scared and alone at times. It's awful.

The worse thing is the lack of support out there, because it seems there is definitely a lack of knowledge and information.

If it wasn't for this forum it would be unbearable and even more frightening.

Hi Marcia, sounds similiar, I am going to be 46 this year and I have had these same things for a few years and more as well. my main complaint is muscular and nerve pain throughout my body, nausea, headaches, the nerve pain can at times I feel in my teeth and even my belly button...everything comes and goes, sometimes it goes for a month or so and returns, over the last few years I have been to the doctors having many tests and everything seems normal aside from slightly high inflammation in blood test. I actually decided to take a break from my business as I just have lost motivation when dealing with this on a regular basis.