All these symptoms on a daily basis now--oh my! - Menopause Message Board

viktik · 05-27-2006, 07:34 AM

Hi everyone,

I have the following symptoms on a daily basis now:

nausea off and on
buzzing in feet, shoulders and neck
blurred vision after lunch
twitching in eyes off and on, all day
afternoon sleepiness (I work full-time!)
frequent urination during the night
funny feelings in my chest--flutters and tightness
constant pulse in right ear
irregular periods
tightness and cramping in legs
sudden fatigue
sweet cravings
intermittent sleep during the night, every night
very sore breasts when my period is coming...

I will be seeing my doctor this coming Thursday. He's really trying to help. I exercise faithfully and try to eat the right foods. Anyone else have a list this long of daily symptoms?? If not, what symptoms are most prominent in your lives these days??

Sorry this is so long--thanks for any responses you might have!

Have a good Saturday...!
viktik

Hopefully · 05-27-2006, 08:53 AM

Viktik, happy Saturday to you also. Several of your symptoms I've dealt with over the course of 4 years since going into perimenopause. It's encouraging to me to looking back at what symptoms I use to experience, but I'm no longer dealing with them. Here is my current list:

Migraines
Joint pains (use to be my knee now it's my right shoulder and right wrist)
Lethargic
Sleepy during the day
Sweating (especially first thing in the morning)
Weight gain (Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!)
Water Retention (I found relief recently by drinking lots of black cherry juice)
Pimples (did not have these when going through puberty...an now they show up!

)
OCD (seems worst during my period)
Irregular Periods (after 4 years of being irregular the last 2 months have been regular)
Weepy (went days feeling like crying for no apparent reason...then my period started)
Dizziness/slight spacey/woosie (haven't had these in this intensity for awhile)
Weird vision (sorta blurred vision at times...might be allergy related)
Frequent Urination
Loss of appetite
Salt craving
Nervous/anxious feeling

Thank God that this will pass

.

shell1 · 05-27-2006, 11:45 AM

I am emotional & I am constantly hot and sweating. My head sweats so much and is so hot my reading glasses fog up. I started to do better and then it seems like I am backsliding. I hate this so much. I just want this to be over. How long does this usually last. I have been going through this for 3 to 4 years now. Uhgggggggggggggggggggggggggg!

rmc12 · 05-28-2006, 01:22 AM

Hi Vitik,

Your list is familiar!!

I am 52 and first noticed peri symptoms in my mid 40s in the way of my periods coming earlier and also had spotting now and then between periods. Then about 2 or 3 years ago more symptoms popped up...and a lot of gastrointestinal ones : gassiness, diahhrea now and then. It was pretty much daily for a few months a couple years ago and with it a LOT of anxiety.

I got a book that was recommended on here and I am sure you have heard of it and perhaps have it : The Pause. It details each symptom. It helped me along with this board to see that I was not alone. All I had heard about before was "hot flashes". Well, you know, not everyone gets those...I really have not at all at least during the day. I did have bouts of night sweats 2 years ago. Do not seem to get those anymore. The palpitations I had in my mid 40s and still at times have fluttering before my period.

Anyway, at this point my list is the following but not every day..it varies and also sometimes I can have none at all and feel great, so it really is unpredictable :

sometimes the afternoon sleepiness
fluttering as you mentioned at times, not often
Irregular periods (got one last in Feb. So this is the longest I have gone without it. Last year went exactly 3 months without it but then got it back every 24 days or 25 days).
Fatigue at times, like a PMS type fatigue
Pms type feelings even though my period is not here
anxiety
harder to lose weight than before even with being good about exercising.
Joint pain at times
Bloating at times like I'd be before my period.

Hang in there..it IS a rollercoaster ride at times, but like Hopefully said, it will pass.

take care,

rmc

rmc12 · 05-28-2006, 01:27 AM

Hopefully,

Good to see your post...I know we both have had a lot of symptoms over the past few years!! Good to hear that you are not dealing with some of them anymore and I am finding that too also. But some do creep back up here and there as I wrote to Vitik above.

I know at one point you had a countdown going of when you last had your period and it sounds like you are now getting it more regular. For me I have not got it since Feb so it is the longest I've gone without it. So we will see. Still get pms symptoms though.

But generally it is better than it was a couple years ago.

Good to know that it is better for you also.

Take care,

rmc