Hi, everyone. I am new here. I am 43 and have just been diagnosed with menopause. Anyone else have it that early ? I hope to discuss the subject and add my experience here.
Hi there,
Yep.....me too! I am turning 45 this year and have been experiencing pre-menopause symptoms for about the last 5 years!
Both my mother and her mother began theirs early too...
What type of symptoms (if any) are you finding?
For me it's hot flashes, occasional nausea, debilitating fatigue, no libido, much more intense PMT/depression, hair loss, hip/leg pains (like growing pains), bloating, two weeks of brown spotting before I begin my period properly....then I flood!
(So basically I feel like I spend half my life in "nappies" !!!)
Interestingly enough, I recently had my pap smear, ultrasound and day surgery where they performed a D&C and a hysteroscopy - basically to clean things up in there and make sure there was nothing untoward causing my menstrual flooding.
Apparently, all is AOK *phew* but....the gyno says that I am NOT menopausal (because I'm still bleeding?) and she expects that I will continue to menstruate for another 5 to 6 years - great!
She gave me a short list of options to try and ease the flooding, but said that medically there was nothing else available to assist me with the overall process....
I have just spent a year taking a prescribed herbal hormone balancing formula which unfortunately didn't make a difference.
I do drink herbal teas which seem to help (ie. the red raspberry leaf tea always fixes my nausea - just as it did during my pregnancy (all those years ago!).
The doctor wants me to take The Pill to try and help with the flooding. (and my hubby just had a Vasectomy - typical!)
I think I'm going to try Chinese Herbs and acupuncture next....
I would love to be able to help manage these symptoms for myself rather than give up.
Medically there doesn't seem to be a whole lot on offer - perhaps there is once actual "Menopause" is official?
Good luck on your journey....let us know how you go and what you are experiencing along the way.
I find this forum to be a tremendous help and comfort to know that I am not alone during this very demanding and challenging phase of life.
I just turned 44, and have started perimenopause!
Seemed early too me, until I started reading!!
It sure is tough for us women, uh?
Good Luck,
Geneva
Hi Geneva1 -
Yes. I did a bit of reading before I even thought I may have been changing over and the thing that really made me feel like I was was the hot flashes. That just never happened before.I think I've mentioned, I had very minor infrequent ones, like blushing for a minute.So that wasn't bad.I feel it's a blessing for it to have happened early. I didn't want to have to wait till 50 something !
You're the only one on the board who has thusfar mentioned the nausea. That was my scariest symptom ! Began five years ago. It would sometimes be there and most times not. We are all different, and I just want to share my experience, but what happened to me was so unusual,yet someone else did tell me it happened to her also.
About ten months before I menopaused, for like two months, I was feeling nausea every day.It was more of an uneasy feeling kind of nausea and went away by about 10:00 A.M. But this was every day for like a month or two. I thought the toothpaste was making me feel this way, I thought everything except to correlate it with hormones.Changing hormones at that.
One yucky day, it hit me very strong at the end of this 1-2 months of this feeling.I was so scared.I am usually never nauseas ! I knew it wasn't a virus AND I was spottng - I was supposed to be ovulating, but I wasn't.
Was tested -found to be in peri-menopause. The nausea as it was bad , came back one more time and I hadn't had it since. My greatest advice is this medicine called Emetrol. It's easy to take, over the counter and was prescribed by my gynecologist. The pharmacist couldn't read my gyne's handwriting so my boyfriend brought home an over the counter version and it worked like a charm. I am glad most women don't get this symptom but you must know that you're not imagining things if it happens. So many people were saying, oh, you have a virus, oh what did you eat.It was the hormones a changing over, that's what it was. My gynecologist called it a "phase".The word phase had it's hopes -implying that this would not last.
Thanks for mentioning the nausea. There is like ONE article on the internet about this-that's how uncommon it is.I read that it is when the progesterone decreases that it causes nausea.I did not experience any other bothersome symptoms , none of the stereotyped symptoms, just little odd ones - trouble falling asleep, a bit of ear ringing, carpal tunnel symdrom which is very minor but I better watch it, a phase where more hair than normal fell out when I washed my hair, minor blushing.
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Hi Geneva1 -
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