Any 40 year olds been through Perimenopause?

singer1

Gees....,menopause stinks!!!!

ainfante

Boomeru,

So you wound up having a thyroid problem? My thyroid tests were normal although I would call them on the low normal side. Hmmm! We can go on and on about this, can't we?

ainfante

Boomeru, remember meno plays on the thyroid. Even if you don't have a thyroid problem it will still pull on it giving you symptoms of hell either too fast or too slow. I'm feeling like you and I'm only 45. But you can tell it's hormonal, you just can tell and it's happening in you and everyone else thinks your fine except the ones you are close to and they think you're a big B or going nuts, even though you're not. Yes, I get the ***** brain, the forgetfullness, the muscle weakness, the tremors in my hands, the anxiety, the muscle cramps and you name it, I have it.

Boomerue

lol We all sound like we are one foot in the grave, I had to go back to work today, and my head, thought that I would have to go home, and then just before I went home at 2 00 this afternoon, I got the bigest headache, I seem to be having a lo tof those just lately.
The last few nights, when I have gone to bed, and rolled over from my right side to my left, I get the most worse kind of vertigo, and have to hang on to the side of the bed, make s you feel very sick.
I seem to have slowed down as well, must be the ears telling the brian something, I know that I feel so yuk, wish that we could be like other people, and be normal, with out the funny ears, the clogged head, and noises in the ears.
boomerue

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Valerie

singer1

then we would be men!

ainfante

Boomerue, LOL I began to get the headaches after the period. It' s just a never ending war, hormone against hormone, LOL And the mind is the audience! I found out by going to the anxiety board here is helping me too. You know to have anxiety with hormonal changes is so completely normal and here we are thinking we are so not-completely normal. I know anxiety can be a whole seperate thing, but look how many people have it? So we learn from the ones dealing with anxiety and we learn from the ones dealing with meno and we put them all together and HEAL!

Boomerue

today is my 8 day from the dizzes, and feeling worse each day,is there any more out there with the osclolarouies in the ears, and thinning of the ear drums.
I have heard of people having opps on the ears, but dont think there is much of a suscess rate.
it is a very hard thing to live with, and a lot of people dont understand when you ger moody, and cranky,you wake up every morning with neck aches, back ache, and my legs ache as if I have been in a race, when you feel a bit better, you think thank goodness for that, untill it comes around again, and then you feel as if you cant put up with it any more.
boomerue

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Valerie

Boomerue

I forgot to ask, do you get a racing feeling in your heart, and your tummy feels like it is full of butter flies, your legs are weak, and you feel like you cant stand up.
I find I am forgetting things, and I have never done that before, I feel so tired in the mornings when I get up, i tis like you have not been to sleep.I often wonder, if doctors, and specilists had what some of us have got, how would they put up with it, mor eso if they ar e men.
boomerue

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Valerie

Moxie75

Boomerue,

take magnesium for those feelings in your stomach and the palps in your throat..it stopped mine completely...Lisa

ainfante

Hi Valerie! Oh I sure do get the racing in the heart and the palpitatons. Although my palpitations are a bit better now due to having my period 6 days ago, and the progesterone creme did help alot, I'm on day 6 after my period and I'm bouncing around again. I forget things, can't remember where I put something, can't remember names, etc. like Alzheimers's LOL, and this morning I woke up at 5Am with racing heart and sweating, thought I was going to get my period, AGAIN! I"m always shakey, weak arms, exhausted by later, still could sleep better and I think that's going to hit me again where I keep waking up cause it's already begun. Use to have two good weeks out of the month, now it's 3-3 1/2 weeks of HELL! When I wake up in the morning, my hormones are raging and I have to get up. I feel like my adrenalin (butterflies) are soaring! What you are feeling is anxiety. It is a real good symptom of perimenopause, trust me! It is during PMS too! My hands tremble all the time and my thyroid is normal. Gyne said it was estrogen, needed more estrogen but have to take another mammogram due to some findings before she can give me anything. She took a biopsy too for uterine cancer, just in case cause of the frequent bleeding and spotting. Was so nice of her to prepare me this, I would have brought a pad and some tylenol, but I'm okay now. She said the trembling and shakey feeling is the estrogen beginning to decline. She ran tests today, UA, estradiol, progesterone, testerone and dheas. We will see, but she said I was very perimopausal. She's a gyne/endocrinoligist, specializes in infertility and low thyroid. She's good, I'm glad I have her again cause she jumped in my insurance companies network. I'll tell you, it's hell this anxiety! Hope you feel better, vent anytime to me. And trust me, I know about the man thing with them just pushing our hormonal limits!

ainfante

Hi Lisa. The magnesium does work. I think I need to take more, taking 250mg a day, split between morning and evening. If I take more, I get diarrhea pretty good. But I'm still feeling like I'm with anxiety and maybe another period on it's way.

Boomerue

Thanks for that, will try that , and see if it makes any diffrence.
It is such a nasty feeling, and sometimes I feel as if my brain is racing, like when you go to read a book, it feels like my eyes are scanning the pages to quick.
boomerue

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Valerie

Moxie75

Ainfante,

I know what u mean about the bathroom situation. I take a heaping tablespoon of Natural Calm Magnesium before bedtime. It puts me to sleep and in the morning I'm regular..I can't beat that..Teehee..have a good one girls, Lisa

ainfante

That's anxiety. Been there. You can do some meditation for that and tell yourself to slow down. If you happen to have a panic attack, you will survive it, and tell yourself that.