Just been diagnosed at 41!!!
Feel like cr*p and not sure where to start 😞.
The Dr put me in hrt last month and things seemed good, night sweats stopped, the odd flush during the day (i could live with that) and actually started to feel like me again!! Now I feel like I've hit the floor!!! Warm all the time (the girls in the office freeze because I've had the air con on) feel like crying or shouting at someone!! Trying to work two jobs, pay bills and look after my son but this is so bloody hard!!!!
Not sure what to do or where to turn, don't know what to do for the best 😓
Karen46733 when u start feeling bad just go somewhere to yrself.close Yr eyes and breath in and out.this will come u down
I understand completely. The anxiety is killing me. And the crying for no damn reason. I can't take much more of this.
Just hang in there things will get better. It takes time......your on the road now to feeling normal again.
Be kind to yourself that's the best thing at the minute
Debs
You sound like me this morning at 44...I can't even give you any real advice. Since this is the first month I have missed a period other then pregant. And I am just entering into this crazy thing they call perimenopausal. My heat/cold flashes just started and I feel like I can kill someone. BUT these ladies on this site have been wonderful with loads and loads of information. All in one day! If anyone will be able to point you and I on this journey it is these amazing woman. Hang in there..And keep reading and I know we will both be ok!
dear lady. Did you know that the less estrogen your uterus gets, the lower your chances are of Uterine cancer later? Explain to the girls and perhaps they can bring jackets...Anyhow, go back to your dr and tell him, maybe there is some other solution. Hang in there!xx
Hi Karen! May I ask what hrt is? I new here as well
hoping to get some helpful information!
Hi Karen,
You need to go back to your doctor and tell him/her that the HRT stopped working.
HRT is hormone replacement therapy 😃
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is given to some women whose estrogen and progesterone levels drop significantly because of the menopause. Estrogen and progesterone are hormones. HRT tops up a woman's levels of essential hormones.
Hi ladies and thank you 😊
i hate to admit it but my husband may have been right 3-4 years ago when he said I was heading for menopause. I didn't want to admit but maybe he was right, I was in my 30s, this isn't suppose to happen until later in life. I can't remember the last time my periods were regular for any length of time and anti-depressants I used to help combat what I thought was PMS may not have been.
i hate feeling like this I just want it to end but who knows when that will be 😔😔
I can't believe that st 41 you have actually been diagnosed. I've been at my lady doctors over 4 years with anxiety stress . Extreme cold. And lately over few months with pelvic pain . Vaginal burning all apart from last time she gave me something for internal thrush. Dhe just kept telling me oh hormone imbalance . It evil come right . I found this page then ehile googling symptoms and only then realised omg the brain fog , the can't concentrate . The stress etc it is peri menopsuse. Never heard of it. Nor did my doctor even ask me or suggest anything about it. You have brilliant doctors.
Thank you Karen I'm new to this whole menopause
thing! I'll be 49 in October and I just feel miserable most of the time. I feel like I don't get a break between my cycle since I'm still having them. Last
year at my yearly check up the doctor told me she
noticed changes in my Pap smear. I'm sure she was
correct as I'm am here a year later feeling like this.
I completely get where your coming from, it's the most awful feeling in the world, just wish I never felt like this and it's hard for people who aren't going through it to understand--
I had to ask 2 doctors before they agreed to let me have the blood tests. I've only had 1 period this year and after my sterilation (another cr*p dicision) I went back to doctors only to be told I was to young, went back a month or so later saw a different doctor who agreed but when I phoned for the results I was told everything was fine. Finally I decided to go back and get them to start looking at other things only to be told my blood showed menopause.
HRT was prescribed and to start with I started to feel "normal" but now I've hit the floor again!!
I went back on Monday but at the moment they want me to carry on. He kept going on about my bleeds but I kept saying that those I could live with (have done for years) its the headaches and moods that I'm struggling with.
ive googled and googled but I'm not sure if I'm confusing myself even more 😢
Hi Kathryn
I ding know about everyone else but I cut out sugar and choclsted out of my diet and I can't believe the difference it has o n my stress and anxiety, I was so afraid and nervous about every thing and on efgr the whole time, I wouldn't stay home alone ,and if I was alone all day I wouldn't eat, I was afraid to go any were by myself, my life was falling apart, I thought I was losing my mind , but when j cut out the sugar etc, omg I can't believe the stress levels have dropped so much, I don't mi d been alone now, and I go to town alone and I even started back going for walks, now its in built up areas not back roads or any thing, but this is brilliant for me, plus Thr walk gives me more energy , I feel alive again, not just existing which I have been for the last 4 plus years,,, o thank god for this, its worth not putting a chocolate in my mouth ever again,
Hi Michelle
Thank you so much!! I do eat a lot of sugar I think I
will try an cut back. I was so afraid of being home
alone as well for some reason that has gotten better
but the anxiety is terrible!!! I going to start walking in the evening to see if that would help me sleep better
at night.
Oh no. They're suppose to change your dosage. My doctor immediately took me off the hrt that was causing my headaches and put me on a low dose menopausal birth control pill. After trying 2 different pills, I finally was put on one that didn't cause headaches, and it also regulated my hormones.
Reading up on what causes headaches is: Estrogen is causing your blood vessels to dilate, progesterone causes your blood vessels to constrict, as hormones fluctuate, blood vessels are forced to expand and contract causing headaches.
I'd stop the hrt, call the doctor and tell him/her you stopped the pill and want to try a different pill that won't cause you headaches. That's what I'd do.
I second that michelle. I was a real sweet tooth.....i would have 4 coffees a day with sugar and craved lollies. When I hit the wall last October with bad peri symptoms I went caffeine free and cut right back on sugar.
It took about 3 months but it really made a difference. I also eat every couple of hours (esp protein) which helps the spacy feeling.
I still get mild symptoms (sweats anxiety)
But nowhere near as bad.