Hi, I am 49 and perimenopausal. I am still having periods but a shorter cycle of 23 days. My latest symptom is this feeling like I am coming down with the flu all the time - that slightly achey and yuck feeling you get and total exhaustion. It is like having a comstant virus, but I don't. All of my blood work is fine. This on top of all the other usual symptoms is really getting to me. Has anyone else had this and if so do you have any advice for me? Thanks
Yes, I had that 2 years ago. Every month before my period I had exactly the same symptoms. It was so awful. I think I had those symptoms almost for a year then they suddenly stopped, thank goodness. I am nearly 50 now. I don't know what to suggest. Perhaps rest in those times so that your body doesn't get too worn out. One day it will be over. All the best
YES! In fact I was just googling 'malaise for years'. I've been feeling poorly now for over 2 1/2 years. That flu feeling is my number 1 worse symptom out of all of them. Have they checked you for reactivated Epstein Barre?
I'm glad it went for you. That gives me hope!
Out of all the symptoms I have had it has been the worst. I thought there was a pattern to it with my cycle, but this month it has been almost constant. I had Epstein Barr in my early 20's and have tested for it in my blood ever since so not sure if it is that flared up again. The symptoms seem different, just this constant coming down with flu, but without a fever.
yes im same age as you and sometimes i feel like that doesnt make sense even last fee days been feeling that way plus being anxious too ughh! on too if that i did 2 24 hour urine tests and bloodwork and waiting for results still and my anxiety is high that im starting to fear there is sinething wrongbwith me lol!! seriously though its just crazy these symptoms i was fine on saturday and by sunday i was in a rolllercoaster and it was 6 th day of cycle just doesnt make sense!
It will pass. Same here and I am also 50. Almost 2 years post meno. Still battling, but it's much better! My hot flashes have even stopped almost. Hang in there!
Yes, never a fever. I took my temp every day for probably a whole year and it was usually 96! So lower than average. I couldn't accept that I could feel so rotten and NOT have a fever! I used to track it on my calendar and found I'd feel better around ovulation time, but now my periods are coming sporadically and I no longer know when and if I'm ovulating. The past week I have felt really bad and bam, yesterday I started to spot. I had severe mono when I was a teen and then again reactivated when i was about 25 (main symptom was flu feeling malaise and wrist pain - lasted 6 months and didnt know what was wrong with me, was sure I was dying). This time was so sick and lasting years now, but there are tests which can show an active EbV, and I did test positive for reactivation. I had to find it out on my own though. So frustrating. When our hormones drop it causes our immune systems to weaken thus leaving old dormant viruses to resurface. Think that's why some of us get so sick!
Thanks for the information. I hope thats what it is, because my mind has been going overdrive. I have been feeling so awful.
Yes I can't believe I can feel so ill and this all be my hormones. Its very reassuring that others feel like this. I also get anxiety and feeling so ill doesn't help it at all.
I got hit hard with perimenopause 8 months ago. It all started with a migraine aura. Although, the writing has been on the wall for some time. I was very ill and I described it as feeling like I had the flu. It was day after day of just feeling lousy. I was tired, achy, headache, no appetite, etc..
Well I've had every test imaginable from bloodwork to MRI's and nothing showed up. Except the EBV. And anyone who has had a reactivation describe it as feeling like they were dying. I still have bad days, but not as near as severe as it was two years ago. All these symptoms hit me just as my periods started getting wonky. So really believe it's perimeno. I know, hard to accept that hormones can cause all this havoc in our bodies. I'm 54 now, and so far my 50s have been a bust. Sometimes I just sit here and wonder how long someone can feel absolutely dreadful? BUT, if it were something more ominous I guess it would've reared it's ugly head by now. I still google from time to time which I shouldn't do because it starts me back on my anxiety hamster wheel. Can't wait for the day I wake up and everything feels normal again. My current symptoms: flu feeling, frozen shoulder in my left (was right for two years), burning feet, occasional burning elsewhere, joint pains, teeth pain. I think that's it. A huge improvement over where I was two years ago when I could barely function! What are your symptoms?
This is me through and through.... achy all the time. I was worse a few years ago when I had my son (older mum) and would literally have trouble walking. My feet were so sore. I would walk like I was 80. Now I have general aching all the time. My cycle is also 23 days now and only goes for 3 days. I just wish it would all end now.
iv also had this now for 5 months and iam peri wake up every morning like iv not slept aching like an old woman and have extreme sinus problems just feel total crap all the time and along with peri anxiety hot sweats and all the rest of the symptoms menopause brings this is not a fun time of life but were all on here to support each other and hopefully one day we wake up feeling like new women so big hugs to all xx
I had the migraine auras at least once a month last year fortunately that has eased now
Thanks - I feel like I am losing the plot here!
My current symptoms are - overwhelming fatigue, flu feeling, frozen left shoulder, burning in my left upper back, joint pains, feel like I am living in and looking through a fog and anxiety. This all started just after my 44th birthday with vertigo, but it has been the last year that has been the worst. I will be 50 in July.
In some ways it feels like a permanent migraine aura and having been run over by a truck all at the same time.
Yes my cycle is exactly the same as yours and I struggle to walk around and even being in bed seems to exhausting at times.
I hope so - I question what is wrong with me so much of the time and struggle to get out of bed xx