Why is the morning and nights so hard? There has to be some hormonal connections coinciding with the time of night and day. The morbungs are rough. I'm still tired, nervous, anxious, jittery, feelings of doom and negative thoughts. The evening around 4:00pm and beyond things seem to lift a bit. Turn night is hard, cant sleep, when I do, it's only for a short time, heart racing sometimes, nightmares and vivid dreams. It's not all the time but when it happens boy does it happen.
A mix of hormones, cortisol levels and high and low stress times. Anxiety messes it all up.
Thanks for the reply Lisa. I didn't think of it that way. Those are high stress times and the anxiety can be overwhelming.
I get really bad around 4 pm, knowing I will have to deal with my 9 year old homework issues, etc. I have to take hydroxyzine or Ativan to sleep.
Believe it or not that is the calm time for me. Helping with the homework actually takes my mind off my alien body.
I agree, I find mornings hard and after 4pm onwards I tend to feel better too. Must be a hormone high or low.
Im right here with you. It lifts for me in the early evening. I hope you feel better soon!
That's true it does help do that
Thanks Snowbell,
I've been a little low today. Cycle is due in a few days.
You know, I had the low feeling and nasty anxiety this morning. Rubbed on some estrodial/estriol cream and a teeny tiny bit of progesterone cream, took a tiny sliver of xanax and got some more Rhodiola. Im feeling a bit better now at noon. Appetite has even come back. Check with your doc if you can take the Rhodiola, it may help lift your mood. Hugs, I know how bad things can feel. Let me know if you need anything.
Snowbell how long have you been on HRT? I can't remember how old u r. And if u were still having periods?
My mornings are horrible as well Jamie although sometimes the symptoms can carry on all day
I've always been a positive person. When I woke up I always had plans for the day ahead be it going to work, shopping out socialising with my husband and friends at the weekend. No wonder they call this the change of life, mines has changed dramatically, feels like I'm in prison, I just feel there's no quality of life at the moment
Well don't want to be negative cos I'm still up for the challenge of not focusing on the symptoms, I think so far it's helping a bit
Lots of love
Brenda x
Thank you so much. I'm going to send a message to the docs office to see if I can take the Rhodiola. I need something. Sometimes I don't know which is worse, the physical or mental symptoms.
I agree with you 100% They are both so hard to deal with
CC, I was on bioidentical progesterone only all last year, which I stopped in February because my tests showed too much progesterone to estradiol. I just got some bioidentical estradiol /estriol cream and started it yesterday with just a dab of progesterone. Im hoping to feel better here soon.
Im 41 and periods come monthly anywhere from day 17—25.
I'm glad it's helping but I definitely know what you mean. My life has changed drastically and I don't like it one bit. I'm scared to plan anything because I never know how I will feel. Just stinks. I try to stay positive but even that has become hard work. I was never this person.
Snowbell did you have to go to an integrative or naturopath to get them? My conventional Drs are saying I need to be menopausal. How did you get it done?
Initially, a naturopath gyn started me on progesterone. She did no testing and it really messed me up. After testing, I found out I also needed estrogen. I couldn't get my docs to give me any until I have my surgery next week to remove a cyst on my ovary. I refuse to suffer and after reading Dr. Elizabeth Vliet's book, bought a bioidentical estradiol /estriol cream on Amazon. I started using half a pump of that and a teeny smidge of progesterone cream on days 12-start of period. I take Rhodiola Rosea instead of the antidepressant they offered and a quarter of Xanax occasionally if my anxiety goes through the roof. Im hoping to see some relief soon. Its a shame I had to go behind my doctor's back like this but I refuse to sit by and suffer and be miserable. I have a family to care for and can't be incapacitated day in and out.
I hope the creams work out for you! I know what you mean of going behind the Drs back. I feel that way too but they don't listen to our symptoms and tell us to go get on antidepressants or the pill. I'll have to get that book. I am reading Female Brane Gone Insane about peri and hormone therapy.
Let me know how that book is. And I couldn't agree with you more.