Have any of you ladies experienced feeling like your nose is congested but you can't really blow your nose? I woke up with a stuffy nose and felt like the way it does when you have a cold like you can't fully inhale on one side of your nostrils but when you blow your nose there is no drainage. I realized that this was probably yet another peri symptom because I don't have any other cold symptoms. I started feeling that panicky feeling and had to talk myself down to be calm. These symptoms are annoying. I wish they would just vanish into thin air just as easily as they arrived.
Hi Shar
yes often and sometimes it just streams like a tap out the blue and stops.
( no cold or anything) its quite common in peri
jay x
And continues in post meno, well it has for me ..
jay x
Continued post for me as well - years on. Pain it is. But you just get used to it. At least its not painful girls x
Hi jay,
Yes like you i get the streams like a tap out the blue yet not got a cold and didn't associate it to peri. i can be talking to someone one min then my nose runs the next. (not a good look)
So i've got this for years have i 
x
Yes. In fact I am dealing with that a lot lately.
I know all of you ladies have also dealt with headaches, dizzy spells, and feeling off balance. I am trying to remind myself this is all part of it. The worst of it is. Now my anxiety is so bad. The being off balance is such a scary feeling. I also feel like my eyes are being twisted. If that makes any sense.
It is always a comfort just knowing I can get on here and talk with such a wonderful group of ladies. It does help ease some of the anxiety.
Wishing you all a better year!
Kim
Hi Kim
the dizzy spells and feeling like you may flop on the floor are awful..
( i did have 3 faints in my early onset of peri) that was 10 years ago, but the thought it may happen again is quite scary..
I got to recognise the onset of the faints .. Its like ' Got to sit down right now' where ever i may be at the time.. I look for a chair, bench, anything, I found and still do queuing at a check out the worst thing, start lolling about and need to move my self, cant stand in one place motionless.
i still get the odd day of this post menopause, infact its like a pattern about every 6 or so weeks i get a really weird off balance day..
sucks doesnt, but when i dont have this off day i feel quite good most of the time..
happy 2015 Kim😊
Jay x
Yes, usually mine accompanies a headache, I use vicks vapor rub to make my nose run when it happens. I attribute it to weather and sinus. The dizzy off balance, falling on your face feeling is the WORST for me, triggers anxiety, cannot focus ughhhh! Comes on fast, sometimes lasts all day or days! I also cannot stand still for great length of time, days like that I find myself more horizontal....waiting for it to pass! Anyone every have vision issues, somedays I need to use my reader glasses not just for reading or on the computer, but for anything, and somedays my vision is blurred that all I can do is close them, annoying, other days not as bad. I have a vision check coming up. Love to hear if anyone gets any vision changes with all the other nonsense we endure?
Thanks, Jay. You are always such a comfort. The last 4 days have been really bad days. Find myself being scared and so sad feeling. I know it will pass.
Thanks again for always being there!!
Hi loretta
Yes my eyes have got worse, i wear glasses all the time, vary focal, sometimes contacts, but i found dry eyes an issue and so dont wear contacts much now.
I hear a few menopausal ladies have dry eyes due to hormonal decline.
Also in peri i remember moments of what they describe as kaleidoscope eyes, where patterns whizzing around would happen, use to be in the morning or when going from dark to sunlight .
Use to be dark and white patterns.
Jay x
Hi Kim
The sadness and anxiety and feelings of doom i had that too 😫
It does pass and i found my 150mg B6 helped mine, infact it went .. Yippee.
Mind you i am feeling fed up in a different way right now ' i have to do some ironing' 😣
Jay x
Thank you Jayneejay, yes I have some weird lights flashing, sometimes in one eye, briefly and always coming in from the sun to darker lighting its annoying, going from dark to sunlight, sunglasses a must for me!!!
Anything else our bodies will do to us? Thank you again!
Yes I have had stuffy nose I use Neal med sinus rinse it clears your sinus and stops me getting head aces. You can get it on amazon or at boots . Worth a try. Good luck evan
Hi Kim, i too get the dizziness and feeling off balance and bad, bad headaches that can last for four days, the off balance feeling used to happen to me every day not so long ago and now its just random. I still feel i can't stand for very long or i will tip forward or faint. I'm so glad you mention the feeling of your eyes being twisted cos i get that and as it has never been mentioned before as a symptom of peri i thought it was just me yet i've had two eye tests last year and although i had to have glasses they have made no difference to the twisted feeling i can get and it lasts all day and sometimes makes me feel nauseas, not good when i'm at work on a computer but i've had a new screen, new lights put in the office, given up cheese and only drink decaf coffee & tea, bought new pillows and yet it still happens so must be our hormones playing tricks on us and as you say its scary. I know it makes me anxious too but it will ease Kim and you will get used to it and not so scared. When it happens to me now i just tell myself it will pass and i will be ok tomorow, its just a bad day. 
Never feel alone in this cos your not hun we will get through the bad days and if you knew how poorly i've been since 2012 with this blinking peri i never thought i would of said that so there is light at the end of the tunnel, this forum will see us through. sending you a comforting hug if not slightly off balance xx
I too bought Neal med sinus rinse but i had a funny experience with it . I watched on You Tube what i had to do but when i squirted it up one nostrol it did'nt come out the other so i panic a bit, should this happen?
Hi try tilting your head to one side and persive it does work . I usually do first thing in morning and befor I go to bed . It has stopped the headaches and I leave bedroom window open helps me breath and helps with the hot flushes.
It is the most uneasy feeling!!! I too get the bad headaches. I just keep telling myself it will pass. The feelings of sadness, and impending doom are really haunting me right now. I am going to give the B6 a try that Jaynee mentions.
Thank you so much for all your kind and encouraging words. It is such a comfort to know I can talk freely with you all. It is a true blessing when I'm really feeling down.
Hi Kim
Never feel alone sweetie,
Try 100mg B6 or busy B or Mega B 100 from holland and barret they both contain 100mg of B6 with other B vits in all three which ever you try will help
Jay xx
I will give it a try for sure.
Thank you!!
It's funny. I only mentioned having the stuffy nose this morning but all of the other symptoms you all have mentioned here, I also experienced as the day went on. In addition to having acid reflux today which had me panicking because I kept feeling sensitivity in my left arm, shoulder and chest. I started to get a panic attack but calmed myself down. I kept thinking it was my lung or something because of the stuffy nose.
I also had the dizziness and headache. What a pain all of this is!