What helped me are two books that ladies recommended on this board. The first is, Before the Change: Taking charge of your perimenopause, by Ann Gittleman. She lists symptoms and then tells you what various vitamins, supplements, foods, etc that will help alleviate them. (All items found at your grocery store, or Walgreens) She calls them peri-zappers. Her list worked for me and I did not have to take all of them for each symptom listed. That is what is great about her book. If you are bloated or have anxiety, etc she lists like five different things to try. The first one on the top of the list worked for me.

The next book is by Dr. John Lee called "What your doctor may not tell you about premenopause". I found both of these books at the library.

Some people don't like to read, but these books explain what is happening to you, how you can help yourself and why the doctors don't.

I hope you feel better soon.:)

I have to ditto everything said above. I found both books extremely helpful. Anne Gittlemans gave me a really good idea of all the different herbal remedies and what might help for my various symptoms. I do a bunch of her peri-zappers and they've really helped with my low energy levels.

I also found Dr Lee's book useful since he says a lot about things that your doctor just doesn't associate with menopause.

I have found the meno symptoms come and go. I went through a rough stage last fall where I was barely able to crawl out of bed each morning. I felt like I'd aged 20 years overnight. That symptoms is gone now, replaced with others but it seems like that's what menopause is all about.

Just keep reminding yourself that this stage will end as well and get the books. They'll give you a ton of different options to try.