I've always tested (and still test) in the normal range for my blood glucose levels but since I've been in peri, I noticed that I get hungrier a lot more and when I do, I get dizzy, weak, and sometimes shaky until I get something to eat. Sometimes I really don't feel like eating (maybe tired?) but if it's been several hours since I last ate, my stomach definitely feels it and shows it by making the rest of me weak and dizzy. Has anyone noticed changes with their metabolism, too? It's like my blood sugar drops really low nowadays.
Hi Liggy l have not been hungry either. No appite at all. Just rushing to the loo all the time. Feeling anxious and depressed as well as sore in the breast area. I wish you well, keep your chin up and try to keep calm. Elaine.😊
Hi Liggy - I feel like that alot really really wobbly and light headed, up until recently I was VERY paranoid about it but since being on this site I realise that lots of us get like it. Sometimes I can hardly walk in a straight line and its horrible, like being hit with a hammer - almost stunned, I find it does pass and then some other symptom comes along like nausea, sore boobs, stomach pains uuuggghhh the list goes on, your not alone x
Hi Lou I'm the same sore boobs too. Just got to keep going not good right now tired black shadows under my eyes etc etc. Love to you.xx
Hi liggy
yes i was like that for 10 years in peri and still am post meno ( aged 50)
have to eat little and often whether want to or not otherwise i am wobbly and diizzy, looking for a chair and in early peri i actually had 3 faints ..
horrible isnt it ..
jay x
i went for about 6 weeks with no appetite. sometimes the only reason i was eating was because if i didn't i knew i'd feel the weakness and dizziness. i lost about 9 pounds. in the last few days i've been craving my usual things, so maybe i'm returning to normal...however long that lasts... ?? i just hope i can contain my usual cravings: salt and sugars. i read that if you crave salty things your body NEEDS salt, so have a cup of broth. it works! better than grabbing my favorite bag of Salt and Vinegar chips, lol! not sure how to curb the sugar cravings. any suggestions??
Hi Kirsti I'm the same not hungry at all although I have eaten a little this evening but not at all hungry but you have to eat don't you? Your idea of broth is a good one I had a little soup at lunchtime too. Don't want chocolate which is my absolute fave not at the most though. Got smile and carry on though. All the best to you.
Hi Elaine, I feel for you, up until recently I have been so paranoid about all my symptoms I thought I was dying from some awful disease connected with surgical menopause, but I can honestly say that chatting to others on here has reassured me that I can in time get through this and so can you, there are so many symptoms that we suffer from we can easily become obsessed with things and I still am, maybe not as bad but it's still there trust me! I try not to google everything all the time, it's hard but I try to resist- this is hard for us really hard, at least we all have each other, big hugs to you xx
Hi Lou your right its really hard but like you say you've got to keep going. I just like you find it hard not to google everything all the time and have been so low recently but love and hugs to you too.
Elaine, I am right there with you on this and it really is awful, I have been so stressed over the last two years beyond belief, so stressed I thought at times I would never get through it and I haven't yet by a long way, major surgery and other family things that have been very hard to deal with - it's left me paranoid, stressed and vulnerable and I feel like running away sometimes but I know that I will take my problems with me, so I have to try to deal with it and it's not easy, my husband gets fed up with me but us women are stronger than we think and we will come out the other side one day, be strong Elaine everyone here is there for you including me, xx
Me, too...I get so paranoid about it, though I know what it is because I've had these type of "hypoglycemic" episodes before (like once in a blue moon). And they never caused me to stress out about it. It just bothers me more now I guess because my health anxiety is gone up with perimenopause. Plus I think these dang hormones keep sending the wrong signals to my brain.
I agree, jayneejay. This feeling is horrible. I get to the point I might faint these days and that's what scares me. When I was younger and had these episodes, I could eat something small real quick and they'd go away. No problem. Now I get all paranoid about it.
Hi again Lou I lost both my parents in the last two years mum in January and Dad 2012 its really hard and so missing my Dad he was always there for me whenever I was down. My Mum suffered a set back just before Christmas rushed to Hosp with raging fever she got passed Christmas but died in Jan. So yeah had it tough they were both in a care home and that's where they died. Glad it wasn't in hospital though. Yeah dear hub gets exasperated with me too. I am for you hear too luv and hugs.😄
Health anxiety huh tell me about it !! I have had every disease under the sun in my head and it's awful, googling all night long convincing myself I'm dying, but I'm trying very hard to stop myself, you're right I'm convinced now after talking to others it's all down to wretched hormones, gosh what have we done to deserve this !! X
That's me, too with no appetite. But I don't want to lose any more weight. I might start looking malnourished if I do. Have you tried avocadoes? When I eat an avocado in the morning I don't seem to get hungry as easily. I sometimes add it into a protein shake and drink it for breakfast. Holds me over at least an hour longer than a protein shake without avocado.
Yes its been a tough few years but you gotta keep going though . It the good,bad and the ugly...to coin a phrase and we all sound so sensible and together. Little does everyone know going through hell...but hey ho. Love and hugs to you.😃
Oh my gosh you really have had a rough time of it that's so awful for you, we are similar actually because I found my father 2 years ago after he left me and my mother when I was four, I searched for him for years and finally found him through a detective in the end, he died last May and I found out lots of secrets that almost destroyed me, we sure do get dealt some hard stuff to deal with and life is cruel, I'm so sad for you try to remember all the lovely times you had with your wonderful mum and dad and I'm sure they loved you very very much, xx
Yes its been a cruel hard time over the last few months but poor your finding your dad had died. Lou thank you so much for your very kind thoughts they are well appreciated. Take maybe have a chat tomorrow. I Gunna try and get some sleep now night to you.
Night Hun sleep well, no googling! X
No straight to bed for me.