Is there really a beleif or connection that anxiety is caused by starting or being in the peri menopausal stage? Ive always been a bot anxious but this last year its been terrible. I'm 46 and my periods arnt too bad, but there is a shift in the length of time my period lasts now.

What do you Ladies reckon please?

I know my anxiety and depression didnt start til i was in peri then hit meno and really sent me for loop. on paxil now thank goodness and that has helped so i can deal with the other symptoms of meno. before peri i was always the optimist, happy, go lucky nothing brought me down then peri hit and i was just the opposite. i even had several trips to er thinking was having heart attack and it was anxiety. my husband kept telling me it was related to peri and i told him he was crazy i didnt want to believe i was at that stage and it could do all that to my mind. but it did.
we give painful birth to children, then have pms and periods for decades this seems like a cruel joke on women when there at a time they should be enjoying the fruits of there labor everything is going out of whack. thats my opinion of meno anyway.
tami

I don't know for sure, but I never had anxiety or anything until I was almost 43, went away for a few years and now at 47 is back with a vengance.

I am not in menopause per hormone bloodwork and get periods monthly.

I had so many tests first time at 43 and all were mostly normal or something minor that would not cause what I had. Don't know why it went away mostly ( except some internal shaking ), but its back and worse it seems.

I won't post all my symptoms because I have several times, but loss of appetite, daily internal shaking, tired, weak, sleeping by 8pm etc.

I am going to ask for more thyroid tests, as I posted on the thyroid board and some say if your TSH is normal, you still should get antibody tests to see if something is going on.

I used to be relaxed and laid back. I want that person back so badly.