Hello ladies I have posted on here many times with different symptoms which come and go, I am over a year post menopause but notice I have brief feelings of flu like symptoms, they are breif like shoulders seem to ache a little feeling a bit chilled and nauseous but only briefly, does anyone else experience this post menopause?
Yes. I have experienced the same symptoms. I believe it is yet another symptom of our bodies no longer producing estrogen.
I am not post menopausal but I experience flu-like symptoms periodically when I'm about to come on my period. I am peri menopausal. I have been for about seven years. I think it is because estrogen, which is a key player in the function of our immune system, once it starts to drop will cause our immune system to react like this. I have thought I had a cold or the beginning of the flu and as soon as my period starts the symptoms ease up and go away. Why? Because estrogen starts to rise again at the onset of your period. During the PMS portion of our cycle it dips which is probably when we're having some of the wonkiest of symptoms. Estrogen actually dips twice during our cycle. Even though you may be post menopausal your body still reacts and has symptoms at or around the time you would be getting your period even though yours may have stopped. It takes the body a while to catch up to where our hormones might be especially if it (our body) was used to a certain pattern for thirty or forty or so years depending on how young you were when you got your period. Hope this helps.
Hi, I get those symptoms still late stages of peri and have been for few years now.
Yes I experience this off and on. I've heard it will stop eventually.
Hi I'm feeling that too but in peri-menopause. How long did your menopause last? Did you ever have patches of sore skin or funny sensations on your face. It's all a bit overwhelming at times.
Hi, how do you know you're late peri?
I have definitely had these sypmtoms....a few nights ago I felt like my face around my mouth was going numb! Glad to have this group to fall back on!!
I get that feeling sometimes round my mouths , it feels almost like someone has put an astringent lotion on to numb it . Does that sound really weird ? It's only as you've written that I can recall this sensation . All these symptoms . At the moment my anxiety is up , unsettled feeling , weird stomach , really achy left knee and I'm on . Oh the joys of being a women . Oh yes and my bad head came back , plus my memories terrible .
I know it's great to confirm you are not losing your mind. Have you ever had the sore skin thing? My skin literally feels like it has been badly sunburned on one area of my tummy. Even my clothing hurts it. It's been here about 3 weeks and just starting to face away now.
Thanks for replying.
Memory? What's that? I am frightened about my memory loss at times. It's like someone has erased all the names of people places and things from my mind. I too have weird aches that I never had before. I think exercise helps though.
I would look why your shoulders are painful. Don't put everything to peri. I went to see a Physio and was very surprised what and how we don't look our body.
JUst make your G P to hear you and make him to send you to see a specialist.
Get well soon!
Sometimes I forget words mid sentence . I'm starting to worry about early onset dementia , but I'm hoping it's all to do with peri . These problems seem to go on and on . I would just love to wake up with nothing wrong . It always seems to be a headache , migraine , bad stomach , an ache somewhere or other , anxiety , you name it I have it . Every so often I feel like I'm getting flu as well , but it never develops . Looking back I can remember when I was a teenager before I started my periods that I suffered with a lot of weird , heavy heads , I even passed out at one point , so maybe all this is like I'm reverting back to how I was then . That then was obviously hormonal , so I guess it is now 35 years on
Yes for sure. I thought I had shingles....hope it goes away soon!
Oh thank goodness, I was reading up on Internet and thought I had all manner of auto immune problems. Thank you ladies.
Me too. Really nausea this am and weak legs.....along with terrible anxiety. I always forget my symptoms as they subside. It is always something new...
Yes and a bad taste in mouth. Quite like morning sickness really.
We can't all be imagining these symptoms . That's why this forum is so great , we can all sympathise with each other , give advice , reassurance that we are not dying . I know all too well that any recurring or new symptom frightens the hell out of me . Everything is some terrible terminal illness . I hope at some point I will feel more like my old self , I just wish it would be sooner rather then later , so that I can enjoy life again . It stops me from wanting to do too much or be far from home . Does anyone else feel like this ?
I know how you feel. II'malways thinking something terrible is about to happen to my health. How old are you? I'm 48 in January.
I was 49 in August and all of this started last around the time that my mum died last year , I guess it's all linked . I have heard that a stressful event can cause peri to come on suddenly , I don't know if this is true