Why am I so tired? - Menopause Message Board

BrandyBobs Lady · 01-18-2007, 11:06 AM

I had been taking a supplement starting last week trying to boost my immune system. I felt great this past Sunday and full of energy. Now all of a sudden these past few days I am tired as all get out. Its like someone pulled a plug and sapped all my strength. Today I am just sitting at work and don't feel like doing much of anything at all. I'm tired and just want to lay down and take a nap. My stomach is totally bloated and I feel like I am carrying around one of those darned inner tubes you wear when you can't swim. I always loved being a woman up until now...this royally sucks. I haven't had a period in going on 7 months. The other night though I had a sharp pain in my lower left side....ovulating? At this point I'd take a period just to feel somewhat normal. Right now...I just wanna curl up in a corner and go to sleep. lol

roland92 · 01-18-2007, 04:43 PM

Brandy,
That is how I feel every month right before I get my period. I feel like I could just curl up a fall asleep at any time. I hope for your sake, that you are not beginning your cycles all over again. It sounds like your homones to me. T.

Alabasterlyn · 01-19-2007, 01:45 AM

I think often during the menopause our sleep patterns change dramatically too and that certainly would make anyone more tired during the daytime. I haven't slept through the night for 4yrs now and it's got to the stage where I am used to it, although I do try to get a cat nap during the afternoon. What I find has helped me the most is to start doing some exercise. Even when I am feeling so tired that I just want to go to sleep I will exercise and it's amazing how it can actually give you more energy rather than making you feel more tired.

nero · 01-22-2007, 08:17 PM

I know how you feel. I missed my December cycle and just got it on the timely date it was due but in January. I felt so tired I was napping through the day and laying on my bed at 6:30 p.m. I am a treaddie and walk about 5 - 6 miles a day and I find it hard to continue this. I now have this spare tire and/or handles on my hips in what seems like a matter of weeks. I feel tired, and unable to focus. thank goodness I am at home and the thought of returning to work on any level seems far fetched. I know how you feel about the energy zapped out of you. I am going to try the zinc and magnesium because the sugar cravings and the fatigue I feel like I am constantly premenstrual. Yikes all these years of keeping fit and at 47 I am bottoming out...NO pun intended LOL good luck to you ladies ...nero

BrandyBobs Lady · 01-25-2007, 01:10 PM

Not sure if my cycles are trying to start back up or not. I haven't had a period since June 2006. I have heard when we start into peri-menopause some women continue to get their cycles and some don't. I seem to feel like I'm getting mine on occasion but it never appears. The tiredness comes and goes. Tuesday night I was full of energy and dancing around my bedroom and then *boom* I am tired the next day and am overly tired today. Maybe cuz of an overactive dream I had and my honey had to wake me up from a dead sleep to get ready for work. uck! At least he doesn't shake me awake but kisses me awake which is far more pleasant.

I have the stupid spare tire...just started accumulating on my mid-section over the past couple of years. I feel like I am walking or sitting with a stupid inner tube strapped around my waist like the ones we use for the kids or someone who can't swim. lol It seems to want to get into the way of everything. Pushes up and makes it harder to get a lungful of air. I have terrible indigestion (at least I think that is what it is). I feel like I have a ball sitting in my belly just under the sternum and I get a wicked pressure in my chest from time to time. I get dizzy spells on occasion or just a loss of balance and feel like my entire head is radiating some sort of heat and I get itchy. Today I am just feeling blah and as if I am in a total fog. My eyes especially are extremely tired. I feel like I could easily climb into bed and go fast to sleep. That is probably what I need to do but since I'm working I can't. I've never felt this crappy in my life. Why is it that when we turn of a certain age we seem to just start falling apart? lol I am going to be turning 50 in March and I thought at first that this milestone wouldn't bother me but its starting to. I get the anxiety attacks even when I don't feel like there is anything to be anxious about. Thoughts of death and cancer and all that gobbledy gook and I lay in bed at night and try to use breathing exercises to calm myself down. My heart races or palpitates and I feel like my entire inner body is vibrating. I can't just relax...every single muscle in me is tense. I hate this.