So so fed up feel helpless

Sorry that should say I'm on antibiotics for a UTI

Hi

Sorry to hear you are feeling bad again. Yes absolutely can relate I am also post meno about a year give or take ( had hysterectomy aged 29 now 51 so guessing from symptoms only). I am fortunate in anxiety seems to have gone now only left with flushes,sweats odd bouts of nausea and headaches and dizziness, I to am sick and tired of this but take heart that symptoms are gone and the remaining ones are no where near as bad. My lovely mum assures me it will get easier it just takes a while, her words it wears you down and gets you down but you come out a better person. I know uti can be a problem for some post meno ladies usually due to drying and weakening muscles but keep drinking shed loads of water and hopefully they will be few and far between .A few years back I suffered terrible breast pain due to cysts the oncologist recommended evening primrose oil, I don't know whether that's any good for you? You have done well to get this far I hope this is just a little wobble for you and nothing else, when I get despondent mainly on a bad sweat day getting so frustrated not really knowing how far into meno I am I think back to this time last year and think yer definitely better than I was,sorry for waffling on take care x

I am about one and a half or two years in menopause (had bouts of bleeding and all the biopsies that come with that). I have for the first time xperienced anxiety, and weird symptoms. ll I ever had were the hot flashes, which are still here, mainly after waking up. I no onger know what is related and what is not. but I totally quit drinking any alcohol, which I probably overdid, perhaps it kept me calmer, but when I stopped anxiety set in. Now I am on a very low dose of xanax once a day (0.5 mg) which my dr promised me is not a lot and not awful at all. I feel horrible that I need to take it but I do and it does help. I am reading a book now on cognitive behavioral therapy, to self help and in a few weeks will go to a therapist. I would like to be "Okay" without taking anything... I was naive because I had no idea that many people take something, thought it was only me. Now I hear differently. I would suggest you speak to a therapist perhaps it will help. Or to your dr as I did. Best wishes.

Good morning Michelle.

my story is a bit different to yours, I had a total hysterectomy at 42 because of Endometriosis and ovarian cysts on both ovaries. Was put on HRT straight away that was 15 years ago. After 10 years I take one every other day. All was fine up until a year ago when health Anxiety kicked, I was crying all the time, palpitations, hot and cold sweats, feeling nauseous and dizzy 24/7 I was put on beta blockers to lower my heart rate but I was passing out because it went to low, so had to come off them. Had full bloods done and 2 came back high, had them done 2 weeks later and they had lowered. I was a complete wreck, I got so low in February that I asked to be put on a low dose of antidepressants because I wanted my mind and body to have a rest from it all, iv been on them 5 months and they have helped me calm down. But this last week iv had loads of headaches, behind my left eye, tummy pains, feeling nauseous tingling sensation in hands and legs, needing to pee a lot, now I'm thinking all sorts again,

but iv got a stressful week coming up nx week, going to see how I feel, if no better it's going to have to be another doctors visit. 

Ano how your feeling, it's not like having a cold and after a few days you feel better, 

im fed up with feeling poorly too, hope you take a bit of comfort that your not on your own x

Thank you to each and every one of you that has replied I appreciate it so very much

I'm praying for myself and all of you x

Hello Michelle,

  I don't know if this will help you or not.  But thought I might pass along some uderstanding that I learned from an endocrinologist who specializes in menopausal issues.  

Our sex steriods are a secondary hormone system, yet they effect all of our major hormomes in the body.  When a women goes into menopause, the loss of these effect every single system in our bodies.  Our adrenal glands jump in, attempting to help with the shortage of these chemicals.  Our insulin is altered because estradiol helps to get insulin in and out of cells.  Our thyroid often goes wacky because of it's relationship with estradiol also. And then of course, there are the organs and tissues in our bodies that use and rely on estrogen and progesterone to keep things moist and functioning well. 

  This is a major change for our bodies, in every way imaginable.  Just as puberty was.  After having this fully running system from our teens to our 50s, the adjustment can be very difficult.  We feel it in every cells of our minds and body.  

   Don't know that this helps you, but sometimes intellectually understanding the issues can, at the very least, help us cope withall the changes.  

Wishing you well, and I'm sorry this change is so darn difficult.   

Hi Michelle

I hope all of these ladies nice responses are making you feel better. I know it did me reading through all of them. This forum has been a life saver for me. And I mean that seriously when I am in the pits of anxiety and depression. I also get so tired of constantly fighting it. I had a bad several months and then I had a couple of good months and now getting bad again. As always the health anxiety is the worst symptom for me. Sore boobs are one for me too. I have only been in Peri maybe a year and a half. I wish I had words of wisdom for you, but all I got is prayers. I'll keep you in mine. ((Hugs))