I dont think so. Doubt the writers of this program want that but maybe.
I think this keeps it small and not so opened to the public. On Facebook, it would be crazy trying to answer everyone when over a billion people are on it too. So, no I'm happy it's close knit like this.
hi patra,i was hoping for a closed group...but then its nice and cozy here too....no worries
Jamie, if you can find Magnesium with Calcium it will work better. Magnesium works better when it's balanced with Calcium. They're finding that as Estrogen decreases our calcium is less absorbed....which causes a lot of the symptoms. If your magnesium is low then your calcium most likely is too! It may give you a lot of relief from all your symptoms!! Hope it works!!
Hi gentleballads, I have to agree that this forum has been a comfort. I think maybe 4 months ago I came across it but decided not to join, because it says UK. My thoughts were how can I relate to a bunch of women on another continent when we don't share the same medicines, and who knows maybe not even the same symptoms, but of course, those were my hormones talking. So happy I joined now, because no one else I know is going through the same experience, no one in my family, no one around me, they get a few get hot flashes but that's about it. All the other 2000 symptoms we're talking about here most women I know never experience it. My mom never got it either. But now I feel I'm not alone knowing that all this time, it was no my imagination, it was not mind going crazy, the memory issues are real, etc. Plus the fact that we can vent without judgement. Thank you all lovely ladies for being here in sharing your experiences and making me feel normal!
As i enetered meno i had the blurred vision and light sensitivity it was really bad, i'm glad tobsay the light sensitivity isnt as bad now x
Thanks Pat,
I will check the stores today to see if I can get calcium. I need all th suggestions I can get.
How long did you have badly focused eyes and light sensitity for as I feel like it's going on forever also did you take anything for it
I also hate being alone and I used to love my own company
Thanks for the reply Gentleballads,
I am taking in these suggestions. Anything at this point is worth a shot. It's only been three months for me and this stuff is really working on me. I dread knowing that this could last for years. I'm trying to be strong but it is rough. It's starting to cost me my job. I need my job, so I have to find some sort of relief. I'm at the point where all I want to do is stay home. I stopped going to the ER as they were starting to not take me seriously so I felt. I get in my bed on days that I can't deal and just lye down. Prayer and this forum has helped me a lot. The experiences shared here helps me to know that I am not alone and someone else really does understand and know what I'm talking about. Until this forum, I never knew that women went through any of this related to the change. People around me always only spoke of the hot flushes. These symptoms were really scary when they first started. I couldn't explain them. The inside tremors were really scary. I woke up one morning and literally felt like my insides and bed wouldn't stop shaking. I tried to explain it but everyone was looking at me crazy. When I found this forum I couldn't believe my eyes. Since then there has been a host of this happening, the itchy skin, the weird head feelings, body zap sensations, tingling fingers and toes, heart palps, nervous and jittery, dizziness, off balance, crying for no reason, anxiety through the roof, feeling like food stuck in my chest, feeling like I can't get enough air to breathe, and tons more. Some I am learning to let just let it be as sometimes it subsides and others freak me out. Some days I feel ok and other days I can't shake the gloom and doom. I'm almost ready to try any and everything.
Me too. I was always considered the strong one who had it all together. I feel like I'm coming apart at the seams now. I have become so distant and changed so much and didn't realize it. I guess I just felt like none of my girl friends was going through this so they would have no clue. So I keep away from outings now scared that I will panic in front of them. I stay in or only go out with my immediate family or go to work and take my kid to school. I've become such and introvert. I've lost a ton of weight which I needed to do anyway, but I've had to change my diet so that I could cope with some of the symptoms. The feeling like food is stuck or can't get enough air just turns me off from eating. I just want some relief so something can still feel normal.
I was doing well with hardly any hot flushes and now I've got the ice pack on my back and I'm still sweating as if I ran in a marathon. My neck is soaking wet my back is a hot oven. Anyone have any suggestions for this awful symmptom?
Nevermind it was short lived, and I forgot that after preaching about flax seed, and my hot flah pills, that that's what I should be taking.
Hi Jamie! I think we're all done the same thing with running to the hospital. I know I have!!! Menopause is such a change on the highest cellular level that it puts our bodies thru havoc. With no information available for women trying to go thru natural menopause I find it actually "hurts" in more ways then none. Our nerves, anxiety, temperature, balance, everything is affected. Ugh!!! It does change, but very,
very slowly. Think of the caterpillar melting down like green slime going into the cocoon to turn into the butterfly. She has to change on her own terms, we cannot help her cut thru the crystallis to emerge, she has to do it on her own. With that said, I hate it, but love life and hope it ends for us soon and we can finally spread our wings and fly.
Thinking of you!!
Thank you for the reply. You put it in a way that I would have never imagined. The part that keeps me holding in is knowing that this phase will eventually be gone. I just never imagined that these were some of the things women had to go through. It is sad that there is little knowledge about it. If it wasn't for my aunt bringing it to my attention during one of my many trips to the ER I would still be going to the ER every other day. Now I have to get up and try to go to work today and work without freaking out when one of these symtpoms start. Again thanks for the kind words and take care...
That's so beautiful joanne. Every growth is painful. But I can't certify its growth or metamorphosis because I'm not sure I'm not gonna die in the process. But it's too late now. The metamorphosis has been initiated.
Today I saw a whole bunch of elderly women who have traveled to our city by bus for an outing. They were so happy and full off joy. I felt ashamed of my lot.
You couldn't have described me better when I first read your post! Can I ask what you do for work? Any quiet time at your job?
I'm a Realtor Associate so I always have to be "on" to other people. It's excruciatingly painful at times that I try to hide.
Here's to you and I getting our wings soon!! <3
Don't be ashamed! You are strong, passionate, wonderful. Those women are butterfly's, you're a baby cocoon like me, hiding, until our transformation happens. Never thought it was so hard and so long to get those darn wings!!!!!!
Thanks Joanne,
I am a customer service rep and it's been so hard lately. I used to love interacting with people. Now my work is suffering. I can barely sit still all day, and then I put the customers on hold unecessicarily because I feel an anxiety attack coming on. It's just so scary. When I finally do get home, I jump straight in the bed and stay there all night. That's the only time I seem to comfort for the crazy day. I go to sleep to try to get through until the symtpoms wake me up. I'm in the U.S. I fell asleep at about 10:30 and woke up at 3:45am. I been up ever since and it is now 7:21am. I seem to get about 5 to 6 hours of sleep. I'm so on edge sometimes I can't get a nap in. I just pray that I am ok today.
hi. your descriptions are amazing! You're a poet. So well put. I will keep this in mind for the remainder of my 'transition' thanks to you!