My last period was 9 months ago, and I have suffered from hot flushes etc,so have tried vitamin B ,magnesium and I suppose the flushes I can cope with, but the anxiety and brain fog is another matter.
Saw my GP and she prescribed anti depressants but have tried to steer clear of these,but the moment stress hits my life,I totally fall apart !
I am 52 years of age and some would say a successful business woman but I do not recognise the person in the mirror and I am concerned that work will start to see my failings and things will start getting tough for me ?
I cannot remember stuff, get tearful very easily , that in my forties I would have seen as a challenge I just want to hand my notice in at work and stay in bed.
I suppose what I am asking is ...am I alone, will this get better ?
Feel better just writing this down but this is so not me.
Sorry to hear this, you are not alone I am 46 and all these things started back in February and I want to stay in bed all the time also and not work, I too take an anti depressant but does not help they used to help me a lot but since peri menapause nothing seems to help, sorry
Ah but thank you for coming back to me,I really appreciate it. My desire for a magic pill is foolish , but despite working with women I find we do not talk about the menopause, it;s as if it is a secret and by showing our hand we are failing as human beings ?Thank goodness for this website xxxxxx
i am 47 and in the same boat with anxieties i had to stop me nurontin because of how tired i was and i had to stop my hrts because of the bleeding it caused me. While i was bleeding at the end of July i felt weak anxious and tired and not in to it
I am just taking my ativan, up to 3 mgs trazodone 50mgs losartan for blood pressure and i asked my doctor to add amlodipine 2.5mg to help with blood pressure
I am also taking vitamin d3 a multivitamin my levothyroxine and my metformin and my famotidine due to Gerd
Have been having trouble sleeping don't know what to do
I've been posting under knee problems, latest one entitled "and now I'm depressed". I only updated it earlier this evening, so can I suggest you take a look......it takes me ages to type it when I'm using my phone.....I've been a touch typist for 40 years, but have to type with one finger on phone lol! I too am a bit averse to taking antidepressants! Who'd be a woman?
Sorry to hear you feel like this, you are not alone. No i don't think there is a magic pill to take it all away. I have had different menopausal symptoms which come and go. It hasn't been quite what i expected, i thought it would be a walk in the park like my pregnancies were! I was in peri but now in surgical menopause. Everything seemed ok for the first five weeks and they boy did i have raging mood swing, my husband wondered what had hit him! I think this site is great where you can read about otherbwomen
Women going through the same thing. Im going to take myself off swimming tomorrow to hopefully help myself keep calmand relaxed! Yes i had the brain fog, that seemed to come and go. It is hard to have to deal with these symptoms especially if you are juggling it with work x
Hi, yes I used to be on mess of all kinds including nurontin also it was horrible! I only take Cymbalta now for panic and anxiety have been on it for 13 years tried to go off of it several times to switch to something new but nothing has worked I think the Cymbalta has just pooped out but the side effects off tapering off of it are horrendous!!!
Hi, how are you? do hope you're feeling ok. This whole peri business can be so damn rough! I know how you feel...I've had good days where I think "have I finally made it" then all the crappy feelings start again...heady, woozy, BP spikes just feeling really weird n off(I've had a mixed bag of symptoms the last 18mths 😥) my last period was a year ago, I'm 55 & still waiting for normality to come back. I'm not on HRT but take natural herbal menopause tablets which I think are slowly helping but just wish everything would settle. I used to take Bcomplex tabs but stopped them as they'd were aggravating my anxiety...sometimes in some people they can as they can possibly have a stimulatory effect...I now have malt extract with my brekky everyday, is a yummy natural way of getting B's etc.
Take Care, take each day as it comes. Sending hugs xo
Hi Bobbins where do you get malt extract from and what does it do for you I can relate to your symptoms the whoozy head off balance and an overall weired feeling which just comes over you from no where in my arms it's like anxiety rush. I don't know if it's off medication what I take as I now have atrial fribullation. At the moment I'm also suffering bad hayfever which has in turn given me blocked sinuses and ear, sound like a right hypochondiriac but going through bit of a bad spell at moment. I have never put some of these symptoms down to menopause but reading most posts I think this contributes to it.
Yes Glitter babe, I have recently developed allergies (horrendous), I had to go home from work last week, eyes streaming, nose and ears and head blocked, I felt just awful. My eyes swell up and I look like a piggy
But tonight I have one of the old symtoms (returned) it's too wierd, like a creeping sensation under my skin, under the skin on my arms and my head feels light, it comes in waves, I know this is meno, I am such a postive person but I have to say that this has been the worst time in my life (really)
I mean just how is a person supposed to continue working with all these things going on
and I feel like such a hypochondriac talking with GP's and others who may not have experienced the worst symtoms of the change themselves
I've had !. the fog, 2. hot flushes 3. allergies 4. exhaustion 5. thinning hair 6. weight gain, 7. wierd sensations (creeping under skin 8. pruritus and dry skin, 9.insomnia 10. over emotional tearful and others I may have forgotten because the effect has gone away for a bit
I UNDERSTAND AND CAN ONLY SAY HOW SORRY I FEEL IF YOU are experiencing the menopause like this
I agree with you i have had allergies, colds, nose bleeds, tiredness, dry skin, feeling hot, insomnia at times, emotional crying, yelling, foggy head, feeling off balance, being hot than cold, anxieties, blood pressure issues,
I just want it to go away so i can be normal again
Hi Glitzy, do hope you're doing ok. I live in Oz & buy my malt(1kg tin) at the local supermarket, health shops might also sell it. Is made from malted barley, a good source of B vitamins & is a general pick-me-up tonic. Malt can be added to cereal...stirred through porridge/oatmeal... milk, icecream etc & used in baking or just eaten as is from the tin 😛 & tastes great, it's a thick consistency similar to honey. Hope you can buy it where you are.
Take Care & hope you're feeling better. Sending hugs
Crikey Pinkcatfairy....I am 5 weeks post hyster, and just having the sweats....so hope more isn't just around the corner. Was hoping to fly under the meno radar! All the best to you. x
I am 51, and have been peri for a few years, I think. Hard to tell, as I had a Merina coil in, so no periods for 5 years!
But my brain fog is getting worse - that's the thing that scares me, wondering if its early Altz! I forget names of people, places, things....and that thing that upset me most, names of 80's bands that I loved to listen to back in the day! Sounds silly, but they were my passion - knew loads of statistics about the pop music of my youth, and now it is all sifting away.
I had a hysterectomy 5 weeks ago, so flushes and sweats are getting me - but hoping I can escape any meds, as everything seems to have a side effect!
Don't give up. Think that would be the worst thing you can do for your brain. Keep fighting, and try to find other ways to get round the forgetfulness. I have lists for everything now, and reminder alarms on my phone.
You are definitly not alone, as you can see from the replies here - and I think the symptoms of meno come and go like the tides (but sadly not as quick as the tides!).
Keep on at your Doc to try and find something that works for you. Lay it on thick with the GP, as I think they become a little desensitised working for the public.
you are most def not alone...it feels like it doesnt it..i totally understand....thats why i joined this page i had to write it down it does help...someone at work may i ad a male said i was slowing down due to my menopause...i could have hit him...like we ask to be like this and yes cried for hours the other day..dont know why!!! i have been given betablockers from doc to help with my anxiety and diazapan ...like youself i really have tried to not take any sedative or anti depress but i had to the other day so upset...im going to try and just take them when i need them....would rather have a glass of wine to be honest...but again you arent alone .x
Yes I feel your pain I have had anxiety disorder since I was 12 but since peri menapause it has been way worse and I can't stay sedated all day at work, so I don't know what else to do, my anxiety is so bad I haven't even driven myself anywhere for 4 months or so
