I was told last year that my hormone levels were extremely high and am now going through Peri M... my joints have been suffering so bad and I know have had a stiff and painful neck and shoulder for over 5 weeks, has anyone else experienced this? beginning to panic now as suffer from anxiety and have already just gotten over a gyny scare!
Hi Suzy
I have the exact same thing, my neck aches and I have pain at the top of my collar bone, I was scared at first but like all my other symptoms they have been going on for 4-5 years so I have just put them down to peri-menopause .
I never suffered anxiety before but now have health anxiety, I worry about every single ache and pain, I have had every medical test going, I am reassured for a while but then it starts again. I am currently feeling a vibration through my feet!! Every week feels like I have a new symptom. x
Hi Suzycoon, i have had neck pain and shoulder pain mainly on my left and around my shoulder blade for 8 months now. I have had massages, done yoga, and had physio for 3 months with very little help. I have also started swimming and practicing mindfulness. I am 47 and am peri, periods all over the place then regular for a month or 2. no flushes or sweats but i do get anxious. My GP says this pain is due to anxiety this was in June last year but, at the same time i was weaning off of Amitriptyline which, was horrendous with lots of nausea etc. I have been off Amitriptyline since December and do not feel as anxious anymore but, my pain persists. I am afraid to go to see my GP as they just think it is due to health anxiety. I have been reading muscle pains can result from higher levels of estrogen. x
Hi Caroline i too have pains in my collar bone, i have had my neck shoulder and back pain since June, GP says it is health anxiety. I just want it to stop. Have you tried any supplements for this as i was told magnesium can help? x
I had the same thing ! Neck pain , shoulder pain and it radiates to the front to the breast left side always after MRI was. Normal and the pain It subside and now I’m dealing with another symptom it will get better. Hugs
Hi Amanda I am trying menopace tablets at the moment, hopefully they will help, I have a new symptom today burning sensation on left hand side of my scalp, I wish I hadn’t googled it now I’m thinking all sorts of things!! When will this ever end x
Hi Caroline I also get this on and off but it radiates downthe left had side of my face also I always get anxious but after a week or two it seems to subside thank fully... try not to worry I am slowly getting used to all these weired and wonderful ailments x
Hi Amanda, thank you that has reassured me somewhat as started to think all sorts! However I’m saddened to hear that you have had it for so long, I so hope it goes soon for you and I so hope that mine will start to go soon too I seem to just ache all over as if I’m so old am 52x
It’s no joke is it! We no sooner deal and out our minds at rest with one ailment and as quick as a flash there is another to take its place and so the worrying begins yet again!
Wishing you well and ailment free hugs x
Indeed yesterday I had to leave work i had frequenzy bathroom trips not pee and nauseated and just unnerving feeling , lower ab pain ! The shoulder pain w neck returned this past week w my period! It is crazy our bodies just going crazy .
Hey suzy, I think that is just what it is a scarey thing happening to you that is out of the ordinary and your anxiety is blowing it up out of proportion. Everything that you have described is common to peri and full meno. Please dont worry it is the bodys' way of getting p****d off at your hormone imbalance. I have been through and still have all the aches and pains. I am sitting thinking about all the ill health I have had in last 20 years or so and I am seriously wondering if some of the so called medical conditions I suffer with are infact down to imbalanced hormones. As I went through very early puberty and first infertility and then 2 really bad pregnancies, sterilised on birth of second son but suffered with polycystic ovaries all my life, I am begining to scratch my head and wonder when exactly I began peri, but I know my ovaries died last December. Massive changes - totally awful. So many symptoms and so severe that although in high risk group, dr put me on hrt without hesitation as he saw for himself how bad I was. Still have to take extra vitamins and diazepam aswell keeping fingers crossed it will all come to an end for all of us soon and we can resume a normal life once more. The ladies on here care and share so much with eachother and this is a massive help during this horrid process. We share allsorts of info but more importantly there is always someone there for you who knows exactly what you are going through because they are there, or have been there and got the t-shirt! Keep calm hun I'm sure what is happening to you is simply what has happened to all of us at some point. Hope this gives you some reassurance hun. Take care XXX
Hi Caroline i have just read your reply and have just bought a pack of Menopace from my local Tesco, i hope they help as i am going to have to go to see my GP again as may pain in my back is also starting further down.
Suzycoon, if I'm reading this right, you are 52 years old, but still having periods. There is no doubt in my mind that the pain you are experiencing is related to your hormones. I had the same thing. The closer I got to that final period, the more the pain persisted. Originally, I got frozen shoulder. Then lower back, hip, and leg pain. For me it was all the ligaments and muscles in my body. I saw a dozen doctors, including a rheumatologist. Not one ever asked me about menopause status. Four years after my final period, then the vaginal atrophy, painful sex, and dryness set in. I can more than relate to what you're feeling. It's sure not easy.
I can't help but be curious. A year ago you were told your hormones were high? Do you know what was tested, and how high? Are you saying they tested your FSH? Or are you saying that your estrogen/progesterone was tested?
Yup this is me. Soreness in my neck that goes up to the base of head and then every now and then it feels warm like it's almost inflammation and then sometimes it goes slightly into my shoulder. This just started for me about 2 weeks ago. It comes and goes. I really think that it's the stress and aniexty that causes this and then add mixed up hormones and it's not the perfect cocktail. It's like one or two issues end and then another one comes along. Ugh. I cant wait till all this is over with. I really wish that there was a cheat chart that showed once you get this symptom then this is how far along you are. Hugs to everyone.
Hi Caroline. Don't Google, it will send you over the edge. One lady's doctor told her to stop Googling because it always ends in bad news. In other words it always take you to the worse case scenario. Dr. Google is bad. I had to stop. And yes it will end. I'm still having some issues, mostly depression and health anxiety, and dry eyes. Something new may appear and of course you think you're dying. But the joint pain is mostly gone, no hot flashes or night sweats. I can't take HRT, so I take a good multivitamin, drink water, pray, joining a gym next month(yoga and weight classes). I also started seeing a therapist. I try to eat reasonably well(that is still a work in progess, Lol). My doctor just started me on Lexapro, and she gave me Valium to take on an as needed basis. We're going to make it, just think, our mothers did it(granted the doctors wanted to put them in the looney bin, and they were constantly told "it's all in your head"
. But now we know it's a very real thing. If it were easy men would do it. Men wouldn't make it past the first hot flash.
I try so hard to tell myself it’s not a deadly disease I have but it’s like my minds always playing tricks on me, I have had so many tests for different things and have never been told my symptoms could be perimenopause, it wasn’t until I asked for my FSH level checking that my GP told me it was 21 and I was starting peri. My friends and family just think I’m a hypochondriac. I’m so happy I found this group with other women who understand x
Hi Caroline
It’s reassuring hearing that so many others are suffering similar ailments,?ive also had the vibration sensation I thought I was standing near a generator or something as it started in a supermarket, it then went to my lady region which really freaked me! lasted on an off fir a few weeks, comes back every now and then! Our bodies are so strange! ❤️
Thanks for your reassurance, anxiety is a dreadful illness in itself!... trying to steer away from ani anxiety pills and HRT because I’m worried of the potential risks associated with them have tried menopace, but I’m dreadful for taking pills and often forget so not really noticing any change... I have arthritis in my back from my last pregnancy as I was 43 and an older Mum, I too had poly cystic ovaries and struggled to conceive, I managed to have my daughter when I was 31 then followed by a couple of miss carriages and then a ruptured ectopic where I lost my tube and ovary, I went on to Adopt my son and miraculously fell pregnant again at 43... I’m surprised I wasn’t thrown into an early menopause having half a hysterectomy! My periods are erratic regular as clock work fir awhile then 2/3 months with nothing then back to normal but much heavier than I ever was, oh the joy! ❤️
Hi, yes she specifically tested me to see if I was menopausal, I don’t know the exact levels tbh she just asked me there and then if I wanted to go on HRT but I declined because of the potential risks associated with them, just trying to keep going and ignore the allover pain I have every day and the struggle to get out of bed, once I’m on the move I’m ok 🙂 Thanks for your reassurance this forum so helps to ease the anxieties.❤️
Oh yes what joy! As if the ovary disease then pregnancies and childbirth is not enough, we have to tolerate this aswell! I wonder whether this is really where the saying hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! I am begining to think that there has been a mistranslation and the word scorned should be replaced with menopausing. Do try to remember to take your vits regularly as otherwise you wont see any benefits and you are wasting your money. Dont forget if things get too much for you you can always go and see your dr and talk about hrt. It depends on what you feel about taking meds but there is no shame on needing help at this awful time. XXX