Hi ladies, hope everyone is doing ok & managing to get through the day/night. I'm here again to vent, this scary woozy sensation along with other seemingly unrelenting peri crap is really getting to me, will it all end? feels like it's here to stay gggrrrr 
last couple of mornings I've woken early with some sort of horrible anxiety feelings OMG! am I going to die.....silently yelling "I've had enough!" I won't include the expletives I ranted LoL just want to be normal again. Ok, vent over...take care ladies & keep well.
I hear ya im right where ur at( Been in perimenopause eight years im now 48. Like you im screaming inside when will it end!!!! Some days it seems to much to bear.
I just read an online article in the daily mail about a woman who quit work nearly got divorced and thought she was bipolar. Turns out it was menopause! !!
She also talked about the palpitations and shortness of breath which I get a lot and thought I was dying.
Hope ur day gets better
Hang on in there xx
Hi, Bobbins: I was born with anxiety problems and as I got older it seemed to get a little better. I had to have an emergency hysterectomy in 2001, and my doctor immediately placed a Vivelle Dot on my arm. I felt great for many years, until my insurance co. told me they would no longer help pay for them. They are very expensive here in America, somewhere around 200.00 a month. She put me on Esterdoil, and things have gotten worse ever since. Yesterday, I got off of every estrogen, and I feel like you today...swollen and sore breast area, anxiety, fuzzy brain...I really don't know what to do....You ask if it will ever end..I'm 67 yrs. old, and I'm still struggling with hormones...Please get on the right meds while you are young enough to enjoy life.....Good luck!!
Morning Bobbins, me too ! Been awake since around half two this morning with anxiety ( surgical menopause no HRT) and it drives me mad, good days and bad days, I have to go to work soon and feel like a flipping spaced out zombie, sick of it, take care yourself x
Hi Lou, thinking of you, hope your day gets better. Is horrible feeling like you're 'not really here' vague & not right. Do take care.
Hi, that's no good you're not able to get your medication, is there no medical compensation in America? I'm in Oz, we have government paid bulk billing for some medical prescriptions etc, do hope you're ok & that you can get the medication you need. All the best, take care.
Hi! .... Sorry you feel so awful .... I too use to wake up feeling deeply anxious all I can say is it will pass I promise you. These feelings and many many more will take their course and settle, we are all different but I have had every symptom known to womankind a truly terrible time but it does pass so stay strong and tell yourself it will pass. Big hugs to you xx
Hi, hope you're doing ok. I've had Dr's wanting to put me on antidepressants but I've been there done that, no benefit. My marriage is a bit strained at the moment because of all this but I do have a great hubby...or is it tolerance, he doesn't want to upset this menopausal beast LoL I often rely on my warped humour to get me through. Take Care
Hi Bobbins059
We are all behind you with these horrible feelings that most of us endure during Peri.. I have been in Peri for quite some time and i will be 60 in October! I cannot sleep, my stomach is constantly playing me up! My memory is dreadful amongst other things.. my concentration is bad..
I am terrified that I am going to die! It's also very costly as I cannot go out without protection on because of the un predictable bleeding or lack of bladder control.. I never know what's going to happen next!!!
Keep fighting it can only get better.. Can't it???
Not all AD's are addictive ... There are three types that are licenced for prescription for menopaus for those that are unable to take HRT. I am on 50 mg Sertraline and it really has helped with my anxiety I would have been lost without it. Prescribed for 2 years to get me through a really bad anxiety which will be up in October and then take it from there xx
I'm 3yrs post menopause and still this causes me great distress the anxiety and panics which absorb my whole body while I'm in bed. I am taking a small amount of diazepam at night and it really has been helping me.
Awwwww
I felt like that on Monday n Tuesday it's horrendous isn't it
I put Tuesdays anxiety duwn to going into hospital fir procedure on my knee had a GA n felt ok after it's like it's rebooted my settings lol hobbling around but still got anxiety but not as bad n the muzzy head has subsided I'm hoping the op has sorted my aches n pains out no doubt I'll soon know
Me to the diazepam does help I was given Zoplicone 7.5mg but my god I was spaced out n like a zombie I've not taken it now for about 4-5 days n feel bit better
I feel exactly the same bobbins, I've woke up & anxiety is already flowing through me along with all the negative thinking & fear that I'm going to be left like this. Also how really bad headache this morning.
We'll need to tell ourselves this is temporary & will be over soon. It's good to be able to vent our frustrations on here though knowing other ladies understand.
Hope you've managed to get a sleep & the symptoms you described sound like the hormones are causing chemicals such as adrenaline to rush through you... Don't worry about it.. I've had all the symptoms you describe.
Take care x
This group definitely helps as you know your not alone and not seriously ill and its all normal to how our bodies are changing again 😢 Men do certainly get it easy compared to what stages us ladies go thru in our lives xx
Hi to all you lovely menopausal ladies 😃, I would like to add a comment or two, since starting my monthly salary at the age of about 13 I have struggled, the worst two weeks out of every four, and it's carried on I am now 51, don't have bleeds and haven't for about 3 years now, I have been told that I suffer with anxiety, depression, bi polar, social anxiety, been on about 20 different anti depressants throughout my life, CBT help groups psychiatrist, psychologist, hospital, non have worked, developed hypothyroidisum at the same time as starting meno, 3stone weight gain came off hrt was not doing me any favours in fact it made things worse, and lost 4 stone, people say I look good, but all I see is a flushed middle aged can't say woman because I can't remember ever feeling like a woman, I take sertraline at night 100mcg, and diazepam as and when needed, I hope this all stops soon, I want my life and me back.
have a lovely day ladies, and if in UK the sun is shining lots of vit d. 😃☀️
Hi Bobbins
I feel the same as you...its never ending..you have your good days an your bad...I have my occasional rants as u do lol..but im trying to accept it as its only our bodily sensations doin the wild thing...we are perfect in every way....I dont take no medications wat so ever I refuse to as I dont want my mind being ne more loopy then it already is...I pray an take one day at a time... just letting it subside in its own way... but you have a good sense of humour an you will beat this😊😊😊 we all will...... these ladies on here are awsum for support an advice...😊😊😊😊 take care ...ps just to let u know im from aussie too😊😊😊😊
Luvly way to put things. Have a sense of humour if you can. Although some days thats hard lol
Hoping all you ladies have a better day today
God bless you all xx
Hi cazjaz, I feel very low mood today, overwhelmed, can't seem to shake feelings of despair off, keep crying. I know this will lift, but I fear I'm going to be left with this dizziness and lose my job, mind etc....
Look forward to the good old days when I woke up feeling normal and got on with the day ahead. I don't even recognise myself anymore.
Sorry for being so negative, hope it hasen't affected how your feeling.
Have a nice weekend xx
Hugs to you. I know exactly how you feel. I've been in perimenopause for eight years now 48. On a low dose AD but not helping right now . Praying for you.
Xx