Just another "Am I Dying?" Post Options

[mjbaby]

For the last month or so I've had the "OMG! It's a dread disease" feelings and have been obsessively searching on symptoms (hint: Dr. Google should be outlawed for the overdramatic, sheesh) with the results ranging from "take a tums" to "get your affairs in order" and every stop in between. I swear, it's worse than having no information at all.

I'm 40 (and a half!) and a month ago I went to the ER with what was explained to me as a panic attack. O.K., fine. I could totally buy that because my husband was out of the country on an 11-day business trip, work is NOT going well and I am enduring some family drama. Then my period was super-duper light, although on time, and was followed by three non-consecutive days of spotting. Then! Heavy, longer-than-normal period which came earlier -lately my cycles have been getting shorter and lighter but this was another matter entirely.

When my left knee started to hurt I became convinced I"ve got something awful. Then my knee felt better (because I had been, after all, kneeling on rocky ground in the garden). Now I've got abdominal pain (but! I've got a sinus infection and am coughing near constantly for two weeks now and have pulled muscles in that area before). Oh, and then there are the hot flashes that I JUST STARTED experiencing. At a cocktail party last night I'm talking to this couple and all of a sudden I'm thinking, "Wow, someone just really turned up the heat?"

See? This is how it goes. I have perfectly rational explanations for what I"ve been experiencing that point more to peri than some illness that will leave my children motherless. But it doesn't turn off the anxiety, you know? I've got a doc appt. on Tuesday that I hope will help.

Anyone else been down this road??? Calming words are much appreciated!

[stitchnanny]

Hi Mj:

I am there!!!!!!!!!! For example I was doing ok today until about 2 hours ago and the anxiety feel on me like a brick wall. Now my ears feel full, I am shaky, heart pumping, hot flash, dizzies, (have experienced every bit of this every month for God knows how long) and I am anxious over every one of these.

So yes, you are normal!!!! You are not alone either. I know it is hard but keep telling yourself that this is peri and it will pass.

I am sorry that you are having a bad time. I would not wish this crap on anyone (well except for some doctors I know).

Hugs to you,
Jeaninne

[crazymom18]

I am right there with you!!! Mine is ALWAYS worse right before my period---which is n ow. So my day (72 yrs old ) had a mini stroke last week---now i am onvinced that the new pain in my shoulder is a blod clot headed for my brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, the other day it was in my kidneys! Didnt know they could travel so slowly.
If you are crazy--so am i. Every ache and pain is deadly! a simple headache becomes a brain tumor!
When you figure out how to stop this PLEASE SHARE

[surreallife]

You are not alone in all this. I finally had an anxiety free, shaking free and hot flash free couple of weeks...thinking finally this is over. But no here it all is again. I don't get it I haven't had a period in over 2 years. How long does this stuff go on....

[Shebee]

Anyone else been down this road??? Calming words are much appreciated!

Maybe I have calming words...maybe not!





When I first started experiencing peri-meno symptoms I thought that I was going to die.














Then, unfortunately,

I found out ...

that...

I was going to live!










I don't know which was worse....LOL!





I started on bio identical hormones, and I have my life back now...without symptoms.

I am so sorry that you are having a hard time. I wonder why the older women did not educate us and tell us what to expect? Was it so horrible that they just mind block it or what?

Even my dear mother, my best friend, my mentor, did not warn me. ....and because I thought I was going slightly crazy, with no short-term memory, I did not tell her. Word searching was the worst! I truly thought that I had all sorts of problems. Joint problems, migraines, and etc. and etc. They were all hormonally related. I took lots of vitamins, but to no avail. Soy products made me sick....(adding to the estrogen dominance thing, I suppose.) I was on a vicious cycle of always losing weight. First two weeks after my period I could lose weight if I ate 1000 calories or less. (starvation) Then the next two weeks I would put it back on. After getting balanced out on hormones, I could eat....and I still lost weight.


Calming words? I will look for them. LOL! I am sure that I will find them, but not today.
Our P-S sisters will have to take up the slack.

Shebee

[gazelle]

Maybe I have calming words...maybe not!







Then, unfortunately,

I found out ...

that...

I was going to live!










I don't know which was worse....LOL!





I started on bio identical hormones, and I have my life back now...without symptoms.

I am so sorry that you are having a hard time. I wonder why the older women did not educate us and tell us what to expect? Was it so horrible that they just mind block it or what?

Even my dear mother, my best friend, my mentor, did not warn me. ....and because I thought I was going slightly crazy, with no short-term memory, I did not tell her. Word searching was the worst! I truly thought that I had all sorts of problems. Joint problems, migraines, and etc. and etc. They were all hormonally related. I took lots of vitamins, but to no avail. Soy products made me sick....(adding to the estrogen dominance thing, I suppose.) I was on a vicious cycle of always losing weight. First two weeks after my period I could lose weight if I ate 1000 calories or less. (starvation) Then the next two weeks I would put it back on. After getting balanced out on hormones, I could eat....and I still lost weight.


Calming words? I will look for them. LOL! I am sure that I will find them, but not today.
Our P-S sisters will have to take up the slack.

Shebee

When I first started experiencing peri-meno symptoms I thought that I was going to die.

How long had you been in peri before you started the hormones Shebee? Had you skipped any periods? Are you cycling your hormones or taking them continuously? I am also wondering if anyone knows how long the irregular period stage can last and whether the symptoms are worse before or after one stops getting periods altogether. I see so many posts describing symptoms on PS and I always wonder what stage of peri the person is at.

Thanks

[Helen48]

Been there! Just the other day I had ovarian cancer. I had terrible cramps and gas and thought it was possibly my firboid, then just KNEW it was ovarian cancer.
then my body started aching and I had the chills ( which were kind of a pleasure, Ill take them over a hot flash any day) So it dawned on me to take my temp and I had a low grade fever and turns out I had the flu I guess. Im feeling much better today.

But those panic attacks can be awful and I highly recommend xanax. Though I havent had very many I know how scary they can be. and xanax is somthing you can just take on a when needed basis and works well for most.

Ill tell you something else, my hubby sometimes has to travel for his job and sometimes he's gone for several weeks and I always feel more unsettled when hes not here so Im sure that definately adds to the problem, BUT sure seems like a normal thing for those of us in "mentalpause" OR "peri-mentalpause" so your in good company sister.

[kenc]

For the last month or so I've had the "OMG! It's a dread disease" feelings and have been obsessively searching on symptoms (hint: Dr. Google should be outlawed for the overdramatic, sheesh) with the results ranging from "take a tums" to "get your affairs in order" and every stop in between. I swear, it's worse than having no information at all.

I'm 40 (and a half!) and a month ago I went to the ER with what was explained to me as a panic attack. O.K., fine. I could totally buy that because my husband was out of the country on an 11-day business trip, work is NOT going well and I am enduring some family drama. Then my period was super-duper light, although on time, and was followed by three non-consecutive days of spotting. Then! Heavy, longer-than-normal period which came earlier -lately my cycles have been getting shorter and lighter but this was another matter entirely.

When my left knee started to hurt I became convinced I"ve got something awful. Then my knee felt better (because I had been, after all, kneeling on rocky ground in the garden). Now I've got abdominal pain (but! I've got a sinus infection and am coughing near constantly for two weeks now and have pulled muscles in that area before). Oh, and then there are the hot flashes that I JUST STARTED experiencing. At a cocktail party last night I'm talking to this couple and all of a sudden I'm thinking, "Wow, someone just really turned up the heat?"

See? This is how it goes. I have perfectly rational explanations for what I"ve been experiencing that point more to peri than some illness that will leave my children motherless. But it doesn't turn off the anxiety, you know? I've got a doc appt. on Tuesday that I hope will help.

Anyone else been down this road??? Calming words are much appreciated!

I know what you mean. For almost a year I had every disease I could imagine, ranging from the mild to the devestating. I went to the doctor numerous times only to be told that I was ok. Finally she realized that I was in perimenopause. When she said that a light bulb went off and it all started to make sense. The racing heart, forgetfulness, sleeplessness etc...I finally had a reason for it. But I still sometimes convince myself that it is something serious.

[sadiefred]

You are not alone in all this. I finally had an anxiety free, shaking free and hot flash free couple of weeks...thinking finally this is over. But no here it all is again. I don't get it I haven't had a period in over 2 years. How long does this stuff go on....

I feel the same way, i have no periods for 18months and still have flashes, anxiety, palps and shakes, i thought it would be over or at least better now

Maybe I have calming words...maybe not!





When I first started experiencing peri-meno symptoms I thought that I was going to die.

I am really confused about using the bio identical hormones or the regular hrt as i have read the doctors dont like the bio ones as they havent proven if they are safer than the regular hrt. Its really hard where i live to get a doctor to prescribe the bio ones.












Then, unfortunately,

I found out ...

that...

I was going to live!










I don't know which was worse....LOL!





I started on bio identical hormones, and I have my life back now...without symptoms.

I am so sorry that you are having a hard time. I wonder why the older women did not educate us and tell us what to expect? Was it so horrible that they just mind block it or what?

Even my dear mother, my best friend, my mentor, did not warn me. ....and because I thought I was going slightly crazy, with no short-term memory, I did not tell her. Word searching was the worst! I truly thought that I had all sorts of problems. Joint problems, migraines, and etc. and etc. They were all hormonally related. I took lots of vitamins, but to no avail. Soy products made me sick....(adding to the estrogen dominance thing, I suppose.) I was on a vicious cycle of always losing weight. First two weeks after my period I could lose weight if I ate 1000 calories or less. (starvation) Then the next two weeks I would put it back on. After getting balanced out on hormones, I could eat....and I still lost weight.


Calming words? I will look for them. LOL! I am sure that I will find them, but not today.
Our P-S sisters will have to take up the slack.

Shebee

[michuganna]

All I can say is I too have been "hormonally" challenged if you will, lol. I turned 50 this year and I wasn't prepared for the feelings that brought up. 30 and 40 didn't even hit my radar, but, 50..well that was a whole 'nother ball game. Then my periods started getting erratic, early, late, heavy, light...then the health anxiety kicked in. Had a mammogram and hyperventilated for 2 straight weeks and freaked out when the phone rang sure that it was THE call. I cried when I had it, cried when I left and created a living hell in my brain... everything was fine, but, it was the beginning of the all consuming fears for me. My face started tingling, my arm hurt and I was certain I had MS and arm cancer, forget about the fact that I fell down in October and my arm has been bothering me since then...forget using any kind of rational thought to dial it down...oh no. I ran to the Dr. who said my symptoms did not present as MS or arm cancer and then she gave me a phone number to make and appt for CBT because of my distorted thinking and handed me an RX for Prozac....gee thanks!! I freaked out over blood tests that weren't showing online and ran to the office certain that they had bad news for me....they didn't everything was in the normal range. I have talked myself into a frenzy about this health concern or that health concern. There were a couple of other mini meltdowns but I won't bore you with the details. In the end it was time wasted worrying and kept me from enjoying many days that are truly gifts that should not be wasted. Worrying doesn't accomplish anything and it doesn't magically protect you from anything (which was one of my brainiac theories in keeping the boogy man away, lol)and is actually doing harm to your body being in such a high state of anxiety on a constant basis. Thank the lord for Xanax, it helped me through it. I decided I was staying away from the Dr.'s office for the time being just to get my equalibrium back. I have a friend of mine who found out he had colon cancer and was told he should get his affairs in order, he said, when the Dr. told him, he just kept smiling, the Dr. said Mr. S did you understand what I just told you, he said "Yes, now fix it". He is a fix it kind of guy. I was amazed by his attitude, he didn't fold into himself, he just keeps smiling. Needless to say and not surprisingly, they decided to try and treat his cancer (they weren't going to) and after one treatment his tumor has shrunk dramatically and they can't believe it. I think I can. So, the lesson I learned is sometimes it takes a shift in perception and attitude to weather even the toughest storms. Our hormones may be abandoning ship and the waters are going to be rocky for some of us (I know corny analogy) some of us are gonna get seasick and some of us won't, but all of us will make it to our destination, I just may have to take a lot more dramamine (that means Xanax in my world, lol) than some other people, but, hey whatever works, well that and remembering to be grateful for all the good stuff in my life which there is plenty of. Ok, off my sappy soapbox now.... Hang in there, it's a weird time but you will find many here that will emphasize and cheer you up and on.

[joyceveronica]

For the last month or so I've had the "OMG! It's a dread disease" feelings and have been obsessively searching on symptoms (hint: Dr. Google should be outlawed for the overdramatic, sheesh) with the results ranging from "take a tums" to "get your affairs in order" and every stop in between. I swear, it's worse than having no information at all.

I'm 40 (and a half!) and a month ago I went to the ER with what was explained to me as a panic attack. O.K., fine. I could totally buy that because my husband was out of the country on an 11-day business trip, work is NOT going well and I am enduring some family drama. Then my period was super-duper light, although on time, and was followed by three non-consecutive days of spotting. Then! Heavy, longer-than-normal period which came earlier -lately my cycles have been getting shorter and lighter but this was another matter entirely.

When my left knee started to hurt I became convinced I"ve got something awful. Then my knee felt better (because I had been, after all, kneeling on rocky ground in the garden). Now I've got abdominal pain (but! I've got a sinus infection and am coughing near constantly for two weeks now and have pulled muscles in that area before). Oh, and then there are the hot flashes that I JUST STARTED experiencing. At a cocktail party last night I'm talking to this couple and all of a sudden I'm thinking, "Wow, someone just really turned up the heat?"

See? This is how it goes. I have perfectly rational explanations for what I"ve been experiencing that point more to peri than some illness that will leave my children motherless. But it doesn't turn off the anxiety, you know? I've got a doc appt. on Tuesday that I hope will help.

Anyone else been down this road??? Calming words are much appreciated!

Dear 'mjbaby'
Walked that road and boy was it a long hot sweaty one.
Sounds you are in the throes of Peri so there will be some symptoms
I see you have the usual wonderful supportive replies from all the fantastic ladies.
So will just add that I have done the HRT route with no regrets but there are plenty of alternative approaches if symptoms do get overwhelming.
Keep posting and remember you are not alone.

All the Best
Elizabeth

[mjbaby]

Thank you all for your reassurance! Between your words and the doc visit on Tuesday I'm sure that I'll be able to calm myself down.

I was talking to a friend the other day and confided in her this madness that I'd been feeling, that I'd been vacillating between diagnosing myself with Cancer X, Cancer Y or Cancer Z on the basis of google searches. She laughed and said that just a few months ago she diagnosed herself with one of the most dread cancers there is, that she woke her husband in the middle of the night to announce to him that she's going to die. She laughed even more as she told me her actual diagnosis: reflux. It was certainly nice to hear that I'm not the only one who is way too intimate with Dr. Google!

Today I'm taking the train to NYC to visit with a friend whom I haven't seen in 12 or so years. I'm hoping that I can take my mind off things for a few hours (although, frankly, I'm kind of expecting to be tired at the end of the day - who wouldn't be - and be all "fatigue! fatigue! another symptom to add to my Dread Disease list", sigh) and I can have some fun. It looks like a lovely day, after all.

Thanks again for your encouragement.

[enough]

Have a wonderful day. What a great day to be in the city. The weather is perfect.

Hang in there, it's going to get better. Not right away, but eventually. I was in the same boat as you and it was awful. I am on bcp's with the occasional xanax for help in between when things get really bad. It took me a while to learn I was not dying. I still have those moments, but they are not as often. The anxiety is the pits. Try really hard not to google. It's not easy, but it is really your worst enemy. It makes your anxiety go up quite a few notches. Good luck Tuesday, keep us posted.

[chaotichar]

You are not alone in all this. I finally had an anxiety free, shaking free and hot flash free couple of weeks...thinking finally this is over. But no here it all is again. I don't get it I haven't had a period in over 2 years. How long does this stuff go on....

That's what happens to me. A couple of great weeks and then out of the blue the anxiety comes back and I'm post 6 years!

[Michah Hadley]

Hi there, yep, sounds like the dreaded peri/meno business! I have had such intense flashes of mortal fear it is almost disabling......

In saying that, get yourself checked out......I was put on thyroxine for goiter and became thyrotoxic. I had about 3 weeks of feeling really unwell and eneded up in the ER because I could not stand it anymore and my mortal fear nasties were going off like frogs in socks! I spent about 3 seconds in triage before I was whisked off the a bed and strapped to an EKG and 1 litre of fluid, 2mg of diazepam was injected into my veins. I had no idea what was going on. I had sinus tachycardia. I thought I was having a panic attack! It took 6 hours to bring my heart rate down to 100 bpm, where they released me and put me on beta blockers. All I am saying is that if you get mortal fear that is longer than normal and will not abate, don't suffer it. Get some help from your doc. There is nothing wrong with my heart physically but heart stuff associated to hormones can make you feel really unwell.

My opinion, if your not sure why you feel so horrible and you cannot think of an explanation, don't leave it go. Appease yourself however possible. We have to entertain the idea that sometimes mortal fear or "instincts" are telling us that something is wrong. We just have to know when to listen or give it a pat on the head and ignore it.

Good luck, sweetie.......since I have started on HRT for peri, it has been a little better on the fear stakes......

[sandyln1]

I am where you are, too. I've had a lot of deadly diseases and cancers in the last couple weeks, and I'm still not convinced I don't have one! I have a doctor's appointment on Tuesday, too, for a complete physical, so I'm hoping she can relieve my fears then! I was doing well, with no symptoms, for several days, then I woke up this morning and it's been a doozy of a day so far! Ugh!!!

[Shebee]

When I first started experiencing peri-meno symptoms I thought that I was going to die.

How long had you been in peri before you started the hormones Shebee? Had you skipped any periods? Are you cycling your hormones or taking them continuously? I am also wondering if anyone knows how long the irregular period stage can last and whether the symptoms are worse before or after one stops getting periods altogether. I see so many posts describing symptoms on PS and I always wonder what stage of peri the person is at.

Thanks

Hi there...I am 53 now. I started experiencing symptoms when I was around 47, but I did not relate them to hormonal decline. I suffered a lot. At 53, I just started skipping a few periods. My test show that I am still fertile and could make twins. LOL!

I have been on BHRT for about 5-6 months now. I am doing the continuous method, and NOT cycling. I think that if I cycled at this point (which most recommend because I was still having periods,) I would be a mess.


My hormones were like a roller-coaster. By doing continuous BHRT, I believe that it keeps my hormone levels even. That is why I feel so good all of the time. ???

Shebee

[DebraD]

For the last month or so I've had the "OMG! It's a dread disease" feelings and have been obsessively searching on symptoms (hint: Dr. Google should be outlawed for the overdramatic, sheesh) with the results ranging from "take a tums" to "get your affairs in order" and every stop in between. I swear, it's worse than having no information at all.

I'm 40 (and a half!) and a month ago I went to the ER with what was explained to me as a panic attack. O.K., fine. I could totally buy that because my husband was out of the country on an 11-day business trip, work is NOT going well and I am enduring some family drama. Then my period was super-duper light, although on time, and was followed by three non-consecutive days of spotting. Then! Heavy, longer-than-normal period which came earlier -lately my cycles have been getting shorter and lighter but this was another matter entirely.

When my left knee started to hurt I became convinced I"ve got something awful. Then my knee felt better (because I had been, after all, kneeling on rocky ground in the garden). Now I've got abdominal pain (but! I've got a sinus infection and am coughing near constantly for two weeks now and have pulled muscles in that area before). Oh, and then there are the hot flashes that I JUST STARTED experiencing. At a cocktail party last night I'm talking to this couple and all of a sudden I'm thinking, "Wow, someone just really turned up the heat?"

See? This is how it goes. I have perfectly rational explanations for what I"ve been experiencing that point more to peri than some illness that will leave my children motherless. But it doesn't turn off the anxiety, you know? I've got a doc appt. on Tuesday that I hope will help.

Anyone else been down this road??? Calming words are much appreciated!

mjbaby, I could have written your post. I am constantly dealing with the symptom surfing mind game that has become an uncomfortable daily habit. My new quest is to now freak out that I have silicone poisoning from my textured saline breast implants. I have had them for almost 10 years. Gee, the exact same time I turned 40 and my hormones flipped inside out. I am having the damn implants removed on June 16th. I am sick and tired of second guessing myself. I joined PS back in 2005, before I had any suspicioun about implants and this site has been a GODSEND for me. I find it amusing how my symptoms are exactly the same as all the women here on PS. Yet, if you go to the support breast implant site, they are all the same symptoms for silicone poisoning. It's so pathetic that I have to shake my head and chuckle. Most of the women on that site are 38-55 so I am wondering if they are having hormone issues. I am praying that my issues are strickly from hormones. I know this much, when I get on this site and read all of the wonderful posts I realize that I am certainly not alone and that all of us ladies here have an unnatural fear response to what is going on. Most of us here are having Panic attacks, Brain Fog, joint aches, muscle pain, clotting, spotting, severe PMS, weakness, night sweats, day sweats, chills, depression and all of the other unname symptoms. Especially the HYPOCHONDRIACAL tendencies that run away with us and reduce us into a paniced mess. Google is not always our friends, sometimes it simply can scare the crud out of our already exhausted minds. Your not alone!!! Debra

[gazelle]

Hi there...I am 53 now. I started experiencing symptoms when I was around 47, but I did not relate them to hormonal decline. I suffered a lot. At 53, I just started skipping a few periods. My test show that I am still fertile and could make twins. LOL!

I have been on BHRT for about 5-6 months now. I am doing the continuous method, and NOT cycling. I think that if I cycled at this point (which most recommend because I was still having periods,) I would be a mess.


My hormones were like a roller-coaster. By doing continuous BHRT, I believe that it keeps my hormone levels even. That is why I feel so good all of the time. ???

Shebee

Thanks for responding Shebee. Did taking the continuous hormones stop your periods or do you still get them?

[mjbaby]

Thank you all again for your compassion! It is helpful to me to hear your experiences. It'll be a long wait until my doc appt. tomorrow but I'm sure I can slog through with at least some sanity intact now!

[dawn]

Oh, and then there are the hot flashes that I JUST STARTED experiencing. At a cocktail party last night I'm talking to this couple and all of a sudden I'm thinking, "Wow, someone just really turned up the heat?"

You have got to read Gayle Sands', "Is It Hot in Here or Is It Just Me." She has an experience in that book where she goes to a cocktail party (equipped with blow dryer in her purse to try to dry herself off...in the restroom...if she starts to sweat from a hot flash.) I laughed so hard, I cried (actually the entire book had me in stitches.

[Shebee]

Thanks for responding Shebee. Did taking the continuous hormones stop your periods or do you still get them?

I am still having small periods....possibly break-thur bleeding.??? However, I do not have the horrible cramps for 2-3 days, and the heavy periods are non-existent. Two days before my period, I use to cramp so bad that I lcurled up in my bed. It was just like labor pains...no kidding! Then when my period started, I would have to limit my actives for the next 2 days or the bleeding would increase even more.

....now I just live my life, like a normal person. LOL! NORMAL...ah, what a lovely word.

I think that the hormones will eventually shut down my periods. Each month the spotting has been lighter. After peri, I might consider cycling, but for right now...no way. I can't afford to waste another day of my life laying in bed!

Shebee

[OverIT]

Hi Mj,
Just have to say I am really glad to hear I'm not the only one on this roller coaster ride. I have felt awful on and off for years and not known what was wrong. Now they tell me I'm in menopause and even though I'm only 41 when they say it usually doesn't start until your 51, I still think its something else dreadful! I haven't had a period in almost three years now after having a procedure called "novasure" done three years ago to stop the uncontrollable periods that were almost two and half weeks each month and so heavy I thought I would need a blood transfusion! Since then I haven't had any periods which they told me could happen with some people or i could just have a lighter or shorter one so I just though it was from the novasure. After spending the entire weekend in bed because i felt so weak and nervous and sick to my stomach i just made another doctor appt. for tomorrow to see if there is anything they can do for all this besides the HRT which i think intensified some of these ridiculous symptoms! Thats how i decided on my silly online name because i wish i was Over IT already. I wish i knew when the light at the end of this long tunnel was coming, it feels like never..

[kath S]

Count me in ladies ANXIETY is my new worst enemy, ive just returned home after a fabulous weeks holiday feeling great.... got out of the shower last night and my legs (shins) are covered in little red flat spots(like blood blisters) freaked out could hardly sleep last night my lovely holiday a complete distant memory now as i,m consumed with anxiety.
Was going to make an appointment with Dr about my arms going numb and tingly through the night (wakes me up) now i need to make one for these spots also

I feel like i,m dropping to pieces

Everything is a MAJOR i cannot think oh its just......

Can,t bare this could SCream Aaaaaaaaaaagh

[joyceveronica]

You have got to read Gayle Sands', "Is It Hot in Here or Is It Just Me." She has an experience in that book where she goes to a cocktail party (equipped with blow dryer in her purse to try to dry herself off...in the restroom...if she starts to sweat from a hot flash.) I laughed so hard, I cried (actually the entire book had me in stitches.

Dear'dawn'
Sounds like my kind of book.will try to get it!
Love the idea of blow dryers for the sweats
Thanks for sharing
Warm Wishes
Elizabeth

[Sue LI]

Earlier tonight I was convinced I had asthma because of the tickly, coughing feeling in my throat. Now I am convinced that I have a problem with one of the arteries to my brain because my neck aches...but not just all the time, only when I breath.

I am on Lexapro 10mg which has helped considerably with my heath anxiety. I am just a little off because of a brain zap (who knew!) this weekend.

Is the fun ever going to stop???

Right there with you.

Sue

[gazelle]

I am still having small periods....possibly break-thur bleeding.??? However, I do not have the horrible cramps for 2-3 days, and the heavy periods are non-existent. Two days before my period, I use to cramp so bad that I lcurled up in my bed. It was just like labor pains...no kidding! Then when my period started, I would have to limit my actives for the next 2 days or the bleeding would increase even more.

....now I just live my life, like a normal person. LOL! NORMAL...ah, what a lovely word.

I think that the hormones will eventually shut down my periods. Each month the spotting has been lighter. After peri, I might consider cycling, but for right now...no way. I can't afford to waste another day of my life laying in bed!

Shebee

Thanks Shebee

I haven't had the bad period problems you have (although I have had every other symptom in the book!) so I would like to keep mine for as long as I can (which is not much longer since I have been in the irregular phase for more than 2 years and I am afraid that every period I get is the last.) If the hormones eventually shut down your period how will you know when you are post?

[Shebee]

Count me in ladies ANXIETY is my new worst enemy, ive just returned home after a fabulous weeks holiday feeling great.... got out of the shower last night and my legs (shins) are covered in little red flat spots(like blood blisters) freaked out could hardly sleep last night my lovely holiday a complete distant memory now as i,m consumed with anxiety.
Was going to make an appointment with Dr about my arms going numb and tingly through the night (wakes me up) now i need to make one for these spots also

I feel like i,m dropping to pieces

Everything is a MAJOR i cannot think oh its just......

Can,t bare this could SCream Aaaaaaaaaaagh

You mentioned red flat spots....and holiday...you might have Folliculitis...an infection of
hair follicles — the tiny pockets from which each hair grows. Most infections are superficial, and they may itch, but on occasion they're painful. Superficial folliculitis often clears by itself in 7-10 days. Google it and check it out

...and ask for bio identicals.
Shebee

[kath S]

Thankyou Shebee wow this site is just brimming with so much great info,it never ceases to amaze me.

Thankyou so much for that i,ve googled it sounds like you are spot (excuse the pun) on Shebee

[Webalina]

This is hilarious! Not because I am making fun, but because I have SO been there (and still visit occasionally)...

I have had more diseases -- in my head -- than I can count. Cancer (of the EVERYTHING), fibromyalgia, heart disease, flesh-eating bacteria, glaucoma, stroke, bipolar disorder, rheumatoid arthritis...you name it, I've found some way to diagnose myself with it. About the only thing I haven't had is prostate cancer -- I'm not THAT far gone...yet.