Sick of feeling rubbish every month

I am so sorry to hear all this. But must say I am the same (47) and hoping one day this will all be behind! It is very hard to cope! All the best.

Have you had an Ultrasound to check there's nothing going on down below?

i had a lot of your symptoms before they found my ovarian cyst 

Hi Foxy,  crazy isn't it.  While lab work often isn't much help in this stage, women know things are changing.  And you are at that perfect age for perimenopause, which is that 10 year period before menopause actually occurs.  Things geared up slowly coming into puberty, and they do the same slow unwind on the way out.

As we age, we often lose lose more of our progesterone production than any other hormone to start.  And this is why many women have found some help with progesterone for the last 14 days of the cycle in this stage.  However, some don't.  The best things you can do is get plenty of rest, eliminate stress where possible, eat a really healthy diet, take a good multi vitamin, drink water, a little exercise, and get to bed by 10pm.  Your body is under stress as these changes occur and anything you can do to help it out is important.     

Hi Foxy..they're all very typical Peri symptoms. I started BHRT 12 weeks ago and its helped me a lot but even with that it's still super important to eat as clean as you can and drink plenty of water. Do some exercise, I love my weight training. Put my earplugs in, lift weights and forget about the outside world for a while. Getting enough sleep is incredibly important too. Your body needs to rest and recover with everything its going through. Peri usually isn't a quick process so take one day at a time. I found it very easy to get completely overwhelmed by things. Sometimes its one hour at a time. Don't be too hard on yourself either, everything you go through is very norminal.

GOODLUCK.

Yes thats how the menpause makes you feel, have you been given a blood test to see where your hormone levels are @ ?

Oh I hear ya! I'm not and will never be the same person I used to be. I told my husband it's like I'm living with a chronic illness. Wish I could tell you it gets better but I don't know that yet.

Wow. This sounds exactly like one of my discussions I posted late last year. I mean almost word for word. Its just crazy how this peri nonsense makes us women feel.

Dear foxy polly

I started peri about 51, sorry you have started going through it at 41. Firstly my periods started changing, heavy floods then endless spotting. Headaches and migraine auras and the dreaded gastitis which gave me no appetite and I lost weight. The health anxiety was awful and some days I didnt want to get out of bed. I'm now 53 and feel better in myself, I still get the anxiety and panic feelings at times but I did have an anxiety disorder before all this but I can say generally overall I do feel better than I did and I hope you reach the end soon x

Hello my dear I hear you. I have everything you do I'm 49 and if it's not enough to struggle with anxiety and panic.We need this like a hole in the head.I have a small lump in my neck it's called a goitre of the thyroid I have had blood tests three monthly since and the results do change BUT stay within what is called the normal range I get a photo copy of the results every time.But because it's hormones the slightest move affects me in so many ways.And again Menapause is the same fluctuations in hormone levels some women can tolerate hormone fluctuations.But others like us can't tolerate the slightest in fluctuations.you are not going Mad everything you feel is very real.What the doctors call normal range is not for everyone.We are all different people make me so mad how you are made to feel.Hang in there!💐