My panic and anxiety is through the roof the symptoms are horrible!!!! Please help how the heck do you contiune to deal with these without meds. I take nothing and trying to work through this but its been horrible for 4 weeks straight all through the day at least MOST of it! Plus all the other crazy scary meno symptoms! I dont have support or friend can I private my cell phone number to anyone that can be of support or dealing with same things. I'm alone except for my autistic son and special needs daughter!
I'm so sorry you are going through this - it sounds as though you have enough on your plate. I suggest you go and talk to your doctor - anxiety and panic attacks are a symptom but get it checked out - you will feel a lot better for seeing your doctor no matter how hopeless and unhelpful they can be at times. They just don't understand the symptoms hence lots of us venting on this blog which is so helpful and reassuring. I've had the panic attacks but the anxiety has been truly awful visiting the doctor every two weeks for about two years - I can't tell you how awful it was. I just kept seeing the doctor and got tested to the hilt - I refused to take anything - they offered HRT and anti deps - didn't want any of it for various reasons. On the upside this year has been entirely different because I haven't had a period now since the beginning of January - the anxiety has simply gone and I seem to be able to think rationally for a change - I'm certain I'll get another period but at the mo I seem to be fine and normal - the first time in about two years - I don't know if this is helpful but I am really feeling for you. I have chosen to take nothing - that's the way I am but maybe someone on here maybe able to suggest something you can take - let us know how you get on and best of luck to you. It's horrid not having any support. You need a good friend or find a good doctor x
Hi, are you not wanting to try meds HRT? or is it your Dr not wanting you to take anything. I am post menopausal the anxiety is awful i know i am hoping mine will improve shortly. I am on HRT this is my second week some days are better than others. Itook it before but had to come off for 3 months. Symptoms returned after 9 weeks horrible as you know . Are your children grown up? I have a son with special needs 
I can't take hrt drives my already high blood pressure sky hi. they won't give it, Scared to take panic and anxiety meds afraid it will make it even worse plus I have to be alert not like a zombie. BUT I'm at my wits end with this see I have low blood sugar and these symptoms are a lot alike and I'm eating myself to death because I'm afraid my sugar will drop so low like before where I am unable to feed myself!
Have you talked through this blood pressure issue with your Dr ? I take 3 blood pressure Tabs which brings it down very well. Ive been taking them for years now plus my HRT i take, honestly the sweats & anxiety together is just awful i don't know how you are coping ?
I dont take blood pressure pills was trying the magnesium approach. Does the HRT help? Do u take anything for the Panic and Anxiety?
I was afraid to try any meds as well, and I'm very sensitive to meds which makes it worse. BUT, when you are this bad you need to do what you have to to be able to function. Anti anxiety meds will not make you feel like a zombie. I was so scared to take klonopin, I only took a half, (for bad neck pain) and then I took the other half at the urging of my friends. We were playing canasta and I was worried that it would knock me out. I ended up feeling better and played better than I ever had, I was relaxed and happy.
Not a zombie at all. The only thing you have to worry about with anti anxiety meds is the possiblity of addiction, so you won't want to take it for a long duration, but if you are as bad as you say you are, I would not hestitate to take it so you can function again.
XOXO
I had to take blood pressure tabs as it was very high started on 1 tab now on 3 but its controlled now Drs are very happy with me. To be honest without HRT my symptoms are awful. I get the Anxiety when i'm not on HRT, some people take antidepressants. Its up to you as an individual? I said to my Dr i know they are working for me the HRT as feel so much better 
i'm sorry, you have enough to deal with besides this crazy hormones!
i don't take anything also, i use to have so bad panic attacts i will get up in the middle of the night and drive myself to the emergency room!!!
it's been a year stop going to the dr's every couple weeks, tired of all the tests and doctors, over and over!
i feel better these days, still not good as 6 years ago but i'm getting used to all this crazines i guess!
i stopped caffeine and sugar and what a difference, i could feel my body relaxing
God bless you, i don't know how you do it with two children that they need your attention all the time and to deal with this hell on top of it! you are amazing.
my blood pressure was up for a while. i start walking every day and the it gone down since. i'm like you i hate taking madeications. i do take Vitamin D for about a year now and started on Magnesium, they work!
Feel Better!
xxxx
Thank you Sophie. You gave us all hope!
Hi darl Im going through the same. Dealing with health anxiety for nearly a year as well as menapause. On no meds for anxiety but on hrt patches for menapause. It's a nightmare darl. But there is light at the end of all this. Coming on here and talking helps me a lot and deep breathing exacisey x
Hi Karen yes it does help coming on here !
It sure does. I've been coming on now about 4 monthes and it sure does help knowing your not alone x
I didn't have to take anything until I was four years post menopausal. I can't take HRT because I have fibroids. I was really going nuts and didn't feel like myself, always having these doom and gloom thoughts. My doctor put me on trazodone 100mg daily at bedtime. Trazodone is an old school antidepressant, with very few side effects. I also take Valium for the occasional anxiety attack. I'm a heavyweight when it comes to meds so this combination isn't for everyone, some say they couldn't function with this combination. I've had to take the Valium less lately, only about twice a week and I've been breaking them in half. You have to find out what works for you. It's hit and miss, but eventually you'll work through it. In the meantime you have us!!!!
I just seen my online doctor he said that he does NOT like patients on HRT. I told him everything. He says Lexapro sp? would help with the hot flashes and all the panic and anxiety that i'm having and can barely make it through the day! . ANYONE on the list taking this? He is sending me a app for cognitive stuff called companion sp? he said would hep. He said he was NOT worried about the blood pressure he said monitor it at home but he said that he had patients with blood pressur 250/140 and said that it would have to be high like that for many many years to do any damage to the heart. He's calling in the Lexapro and bactrim for my DD. BUT I'm so scare to take it I'm wrestling with it. I told him I didnt want anything long term but he said this would be the best for all i'm suffering. PLEASE someone on this here please let me know what you think please. He spent a long time seeing me online through viideo and looked things up read them to me and looked up what helps with menopause. He is an older MD for adult medicine and such. I barely could getb through it I was in tears before I could finish seeing him. He said you have trouble going out anywhere and I said I do NOT go anywhere been homebound a long time due to these attacks.
Suzanne, are you still on it and did you take it daily and for how long. You never suffered the panic and anxiety?
Lexapro is an antidepressant and Bactrim is an antibiotic. If you are suffereing with anxiety and panic I don't see how either of these will help you. If you don't want to take an anti anxiety like Valium or klonopin I'd suggest trying meditation, there's a good site online that will help, yoga breathing, and research vitamins and supplements that are calming, like Mary suggested with the magnesium.
I would take the HRT rather than Lexapro. The reason why is that if the HRT does not work you can safely stop taking it. If the Lexapro does not work you are already addicted, and for some people withdrawal from it is very painful and bad. But, this is only what I would do.
I had very bad health anxiety when all my crazy symptoms appeared this year. I couldn't sleep and spent countless hours googling and going to doctors for tests. It's so hard when you feel so awful and doctors tell you there is nothing wrong. I had a prescription for Valium, I really hesitated taking it because my mother has been addicted to it for 40 something years. But I got so bad I started taking one at night to help with sleep and upper back pain. I was desperate. I never took it during the day because I felt like I'd be too drowsy. Later on the doc gave me klonopin instead. I've only taken a few of those because now I take natural oral progesterone to help with sleep. But I did take that klonopin the one evening, playing cards, and I wasn't drowsy at all, I felt pretty good actually. I felt that taking Valium at night made me kind of spacey in the morning, but the klonopin was good. Seriously, if I had full blown anxiety like you say you have, and you can't function or leave the house because of it, I'd say it's worth it. And that's coming from me who is totally drug phobic. I now have more compassion towards my mother too, you never know what it's like until you walk it the shoes of that person!
I'm now taking bioidentical hormones, week 5, the progesterone is calming but I still have the occasional tight stomach and shakes. I keep the klonopin handy just in case. I had acupuncture this morning for my frozen shoulder and the doc said it's going to be a while for my neurotransmitters in my brain to let go and start accepting the hormones, he thinks I still have anxiety even though I thought I didn't. He said he could just tell by looking at me. This meno thing just rots, I want Ro be 30 again please!!!!
The antibotic is for my diverticulsis. The Lexpro he said is for panic and anxiety if NOT then I'm not taking it. I ask for something to calm the nerves and the attacks and he stuck with the lexapro. Maybe I should see a different doctor. I do take Magnesium two a day that has b6 in it.