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Wake up sick most mornings, feel like I'm dying...

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quenby25609
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My periods went all irregular about 2 1/2 years ago, after I had my last baby. I was 38 at the time and the very week my first period came back, I woke up feeling sick, with diarrhea, nausea, etc. I didn't connect it to hormones at the time and thought it was food poisoning or a bug. But it kept coming back over and over, always worse at certain times in my cycle.

I still deal with it now, waking up every morning early, about 4am with gas, a sudden need to use the bathroom (it's usually only diarrhea at certain points in my cycle) anxious and with my abdomen so tense with nerves it almost hurts. I pace around with freezing cold hands, worrying about everything, sometimes dizzy and shivering, and then it fades out through the morning, and by evening I'm almost always feeling nearly normal again. And I go through it day after day. Some days I'm almost fine when I wake up, and always - again - at the same points in my cycle. So I know it's hormonal, and I know it's connected to my period since I never had this problem until my cycle went all screwy. My ob/gyn said it's perimenopause and that my progesterone is almost nonexistent (she said that's the first hormone to tank, usually) and I just... Is this ever going to stop? I never was like this before. Never had PMS. Never had digestive issues. And now it's ruling my life and I can't see the end of it. Please tell me I'm not the only one.

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  • toria_07298
    toria_07298 quenby25609

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    you arent the only one, i have all that plus, your gyn makes sense, im going to try the mini pill, my periods are crippling me and i no longer have any better days! 18 days apart they are. my chest is constantly sore along with everything else, ive had 4 hours sleep a night for the past 8 days, im getting really bad night sweats, restless legs and hot flushes, my breasts are extremely sore, i can literally feel my fibroids growing, every bone in my body feels broken, migraines off the chart, histamine and food allergies, keep randomly choking....... so bloody fed up x

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