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priya82066
priya82066

Hi all,

I've been going through perimenopause hell for two years now. have a lot of symptoms including the usual anxiety, palpitations, shaking all over, weakness, jelly legs, plus a lot of them that's hard to explain. Have been managing the anxiety and panic attacks with homeopathic medicines. I have some wierd symptoms like tightness around the diaphragm which im so scared of its a multiple sclerosis symptom because I've heard that MS has this symptom. Wierd pulsating/shaking in head as of i can feel the heartbeat in my head!! somedays more somedays less. another wierd feeling is as if something is in my forehead area. I feel like clenching my teeth too. Chest area pains checked out and is told that everything is fine. constant breast pain both sides. numbness, weakness, tingling mainly left side shoulder weakness, cervical issues, feeling a kind of electrical sensation sometimes when I turn neck sometimes narrow of neck. ( I have pinched nerve on xray neck).

all this in 2 years , I feel something is wrong , mainly scared of MS or something serious 😦

ladies if you can please provide some advice or inputs it will be so helpful🙏🙏. thank you so much

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  • bev27429
    bev27429 priya82066

    Posted

    I have had much of what you describe: electricity running through my body, numbness, zinging, pulsing sensations. The list goes on... I have a lot of anxiety mainly focused on the thought about having to do all of this for very much longer. I don't know why, but I have always attributed all of my symptoms to perimenopause and nothing else. Not sure if that's because I've always been a healthy person, so I assume that I don't have anything serious? I know from reading about perimenopause that having health anxiety is extremely common.

    If you've had everything checked out and nothing has been found, I would try to keep telling yourself that the symptoms are perimenopause, and that they will all disappear one day. Hopefully, soon:)

    • priya82066
      priya82066 bev27429

      Posted

      I try to tell myself it's just peri and nothing else but still the anxiety makes me feel the other way 😦 sometimes it's so difficult to explain to the drs all the symptoms. how can peri cause so many symptoms? everyday is something or other and a new symptom!

    • bev27429
      bev27429 priya82066

      Posted

      I totally agree. It really has been a living nightmare. Finally, though, I think that mine is coming to an end after over four years of it! I think I've done my time.

  • sarah13b
    sarah13b priya82066

    Edited

    Hi, You are not alone.

    I also have many of those symptoms and have had many before but only after joining this forum have i pieced things together and realised I'm peri-menopausal.

    I have heart palpitations often in the evening when i sit down after work.

    Breast pain all the time - mostly in the left sometimes in both

    Left sided shoulder pain - this is the one that really gets me down the most

    Sometime an ache in my left upper chest area

    Brain fog

    Pins and needles in my feet and left little finger

    Rib pain - comes and goes

    Tiredness - in bed by 9 most night

    Health anxiety - every symptom i get leads me down a Dr Google rabbit hole

    Its really hard to stay positive some days but i just repeat to myself "its just your hormones you will get through this" I also keep a diary of my symptoms to see if they follow a pattern around my periods (that i don't have due to having a coil)

    I don't really have any advice but just wanted you to know that you are not alone in how you feel xx

    • priya82066
      priya82066 sarah13b

      Posted

      some days are so hard! today I have the jelly legs and hands and feel so clumsy and slowed down totally. so the anxiety kicked in again making me think something is off 😦

  • sandeep08592
    sandeep08592 priya82066

    Edited

    hi Priya

    I've also got the same symptoms

    They disappear and then come back hard!

    My legs feel so heavy I feel 95! Not 44!

    My legs are shaking too. Gastritis, Cervical issues, skin, nail, bones, bowels, piles and so much more

    What is your breast pain like. I've had 2 breast checks 2 years ago. Mines the left feels a burning and stabbing pain(

    At first they used to feel so sore like when I was pregnant or when I was breast feeding. Now it's a burning pain that I have to wear bralettes

    • priya82066
      priya82066 sandeep08592

      Posted

      you said it! I feel like 95 too at 43 😦 my breast pain is constant , there is also a stabbing pain that comes and goes. I got a mammogram done 2 years back. left side hurts more too:(

      my legs especially lower legs feels so weak and so are my arms and hands today, sigh!! have been having cervical issues for some time now too 😦

    • sandeep08592
      sandeep08592 priya82066

      Posted

      priya is it a burning sensation and pain around your boob around the bottom of the boob? when I sleep and turn over my breath tissue is burning especially 2 weeks before period now its a dull ache

  • toria_07298
    toria_07298 priya82066

    Edited

    if it was MS youd know about it, my whole left side of my body went numb, my face drooped, docs thought id had a stroke at first but it was relapsing and remitting MS xx

    • priya82066
      priya82066 toria_07298

      Posted

      sorry to hear that 😦 I've numbness too mostly my left side arms and legs. when google the symptoms (which I mostly refrain from these days) MS symptoms looks much similar especially the rib area tightness!

    • toria_07298
      toria_07298 priya82066

      Posted

      i have relapsing and remitting MS if you had it you would know trust me xx

  • CurlyPretzel
    CurlyPretzel priya82066

    Edited

    I know what you mean. I might have MS (actually might, was diagnosed with "technically had had one episode" ten years ago but nothing since). Now every tingle whatever throws my anxiety into overdrive. I am currently awaiting a neurology appt because an optician saw something he didn't like on my retina which could be caused by MS but doesn't give me symptoms. Everything had been getting nicely along with HRT but since that eye test now I have a persistent paraesthesia on one leg which freaks me out. Still, it's nothing like the "technically first episode" where half my face was paralysed, and I have no loss of control of anything or persistent numbness in one area, so I am taking that as a good sign.

    • CurlyPretzel
      CurlyPretzel

      Posted

      PS palpitations (or ectopics in my case) are the thing that bothers me most but HRT has helped that a lot.

    • toria_07298
      toria_07298 CurlyPretzel

      Posted

      i couldnt walk with my episode my face droop my whole left side was numb, did thry preform a lumbar puncture and mri scan to cofirm? xx

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