Struggling to accept these symptoms are all because of menopause

Hi ladies

I hope you are all ok.

Does anyone else struggle to accept that all of these symptoms are caused by menopause? The last 3 months have been the worst of my life. Up until the end of September I was running everyday and had energy and felt good. Almost overnight I woke up with feelings of intense anxiety and constant high heart rate and palpitations. I've been to the drs so many times and had so many tests done and nothing has been found. I ended up in hospital at the end of november with an SVT, my heart rate went to 210BPM for an hour. Was so scary. No damage to the heart thankfully. I have also recently had covid and everything seems to be 100 time worse now.

I keep getting stabbing pains in my stomach/abdomen (had an ultrasound and MRI and all normal), weird head pressure which goes into my ear, jaw and neck. One eye keeps going blurry. Hip and back ache. Reflux. I feel 100 years old and am struggling to walk up the stairs. I look in the mirror and feel like I look haggered. I'm on Beta Blockers at the moment for the high heart rate and this has helped slightly with the anxiety but I still feel so down and have no enthusiasm for anything. The future seems bleak if this is what I'm going to feel like. I've tried body identical HRT (estrogel) but this was at the height of my anxiety and I feel like it made it worse so stopped.

Sorry for the long post. Does anyone have any advice or feel the same? I have to keep reminding myself that if there was anything seriously wrong with me they would've found it by now with the numerous tests and scans I've had. I'm 46.

Thank you x

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