What are your TOP FIVE WORST PREMENOPAUSAL/MENOPAUSAL symptoms of ALL TIME?

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Hey Ladies..

Regarding premenopause & menopause, please list your top five WORST symptoms of ALL time. Mine are:

  1. Anxiety
  2. Fear Of The Unknown
  3. Insomnia
  4. Intrusive, Recurring Thoughts/Images
  5. Rib Cage Pain

Vivian

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    I feel like there are too many to list, but if I had to choose the top five, I would go with the following, in no particular order...

    1. anger
    2. hopelessness
    3. zinging, numbness, electric shock sensations throughout my body
    4. bloating and GI problems
    5. depression
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    My top 5:

    1. Anxiety
    2. Insomnia/Fatigue/No energy
    3. Pain... joints, ribs, muscle aches
    4. Migraine
    5. Gastritis

    Bonus:

    All of the above leading to that nagging fear I will never get to a "new normal" where I can confidently move through the world.

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    1. Health Anxiety
    2. Hot Flushes
    3. bloating
    4. lower pelvic pain
    5. depression

    My latest symptoms for the last 2 months are dull achey pains predominantly on the lower left side of abdomen. not sure if bowels or ovaries. thought it would settle after long awaited period but still here and daily now. I'm 51 and suffering with many peri symptoms but this one so far is the worst. Still happens even after bowel movement so booking gp this week to hopefully put mind at rest. Seriously the things we women have to endure it's so unfair. I'm hoping to be a male cat next time round.

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    If I had answered it a couple of months back, the list would be different, but right now it is:

    1. Joint pain - especially in smaller joints (fingers, wrists, elbow...)
    2. Insomnia
    3. Anxiety, sense of doom, hopelessness
    4. Chest pain - costochondritis
    5. Zingy, electric shocks (don't know what else to call it) - mainly in the hands
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    They are all horrible, but the worst for me:

    1. Anxiety
    2. Insomnia and/or waking up with a feeling of doom
    3. Aching joints
    4. Vertigo
    5. Nausea

    And always the fear of how I am going to feel from one moment to the next...

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    Just like @Pra_Adoni, mine will change next week, I'm surešŸ„“ But currently:

    1. Anxiety, especially health anxiety
    2. gastrointestinal issues...gassy, bloat, constipation, rumbly gut...
    3. insomnia is awful
    4. achy boobs are a constant
    5. low energy
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    1. Health anxiety
    2. Heart palpitations
    3. Weird aches, pains and zaps in arms and legs
    4. Insomnia
    5. Exhaustion
    6. (I know only 5... Indigestion and reflux)
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    1. health anxiety has to be one of the worst...
    2. weird aches and pains and new symptoms that trigger #1!
    3. digestive issues: bloating, nausea, cramping intestines and IBS
    4. spotting and wonky periods
    5. muscle pain, specifically my back lately which makes sleeping fun

    i think i snuck in a few extra lol

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    mine at the moment are:

    1: Health anxiety

    2: Left sided shoulder pain

    3: Heavy and aching left breast

    4: Rib pain mainly left side

    5: Dark depressing thoughts about all of the above and more that very much make number 1 hell on earth

    I'm so fed up of not feeling like me

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