Hi Girls,
I am very discouraged right now I have been having a really rough couple of mo. and it seemed to get worse right before Christmas(stress possibly , I don't know).I started to get hot flashes over the summer, including night sweats and dizziness almost everyday. Now I am extremly cold and hot(we are a having a very mild winter)this cold comes and goes throughout the day. I think I may break our thermostat lever off I am playing with it sooo much. with my sudden belching I sound like a sailor, my husband is just looking at me I have been having pvc's nearly every min. for the past 5 days with a respite on Christmas for awhile. this would be the time I would be ovulating and I don't think I did because for 20 yr's I get pain in my side and discharge and I have had niether. I finally called a new gyno who said they would help me with some bio hormones which my usual gyno today would not do instead they said if my symptoms are that bad only HRT would help and my palp's needed to be taken care of by my family DR. cause they couldn't help with that. I want to just crawl in a corner and just bawl...and I did. I don't have a clue how I am going to work tomorrow I feel so needy and then I hear some say they feel this way well after periods stop and I feel even more discouraged.)There is more going on in this world besides ME I know enough of my whinning..thanks for listening Mikki

Ditto, honey,
I have been having crying jags, ups and downs, and flashes that seem to be hourly!
I'm not post YET (7 months, this time, and counting the days) but I have been all over the board with my emotions and my symptoms.
It may very well be related to the season and the stress involved.
I, too, am hoping for a calmer January.
I know the "you're not alone" doesn't aleviate the symptoms, but I find comfort in the knowledge that this is just another @$#ing stage of life that we are all, to varying extents, going through, and this too shall end.
Huggs,
Marilyn

Sunflower, Its not called whinning its just venting and relieving some of the stress, so vent all you want, we are all here for the same reason. I am sorry your are having a hard time but better days are ahead. I hear you about the belching , good grief I cant believe how much I do . I never was like that before this meno crap started. I do get the hot flashes really bad and how I hate them. Every morning when I am going out the door to work I am sweating like a freaking pig.When I get these during the day they are not just flashes they are like hours long . The first time I wanted a really cold winter and we have a mild one .Some times though when I have a really bad flash and it ends I all of a sudden am freezing on the inside , crazy huh? Well hope you are feeling better soon, if you need to talk you can always pm me or email me. Hugs, Cathy

Mikki: Oh, honey, I know just how you feel. The palps, the flashes, the general feeling like crap. I have never liked Christmas, but this one was the worst. I've been so depressed this week...tomorrow I go back to work and I'm dreading it like the plague. Last night I was up until 4:45 with insomnia...I no longer can sleep in the bedroom with my husband because the entire night is a rollercoaster of on-again-off-again with the ceiling fans, windows open/shut, socks on/off, t-shirt, then sweatshirt, then t-shirt. I have very long, thick hair. I start out with it down, but when the flashes start, I pin it up quickly with a clip. Then comes the shivering, so I don the sweatshirt, and let my hair down. Then...well, you get the idea. I'm lucky if I get 2 hours in a row of sleep before my body's thermostat does another cartwheel and I'm wakened up either soaking wet, or shivering and 'buzzing' inside.

This past year I went 4 months, then 5 months with no period. Now I'm bleeding continuously...but not red blood...more like brown/black stuff (sorry to be gross). It's not heavy, and I have no other symptoms, so I'm figuring it's just more crazy peri stuff. I should probably call my doctor, and I will...it's just that I'm so overwhelmed with everything, I just can't bring myself to call her AGAIN (and what would she say...I have no fever, no pain...my last pap was normal, and FSH levels sky high...)...sigh.

You aren't alone. I have cried every single day, multiple times a day, in the past week. Today, even snuggling with my daughter in bed, watching re-runs of House, I was having chest pains and trouble breathing. My poor DD...she is just starting womanhood, and is watching me go through the tail end of my reproductive years with shock and awe.

Don't know what I've done here to help...more like I've contributed to the collective misery...sorry...hope you're spirits pick up soon....here's a hug ((((((sunflower))))))

Robin

Hi again,
You all are so comforting...even if you think your not saying anything that helps...it does more than you know. Got a suprise visitor last night, and it was a suprise, it isn't due for another 12 days or so. I know it has been coming a bit early lately like by 3 or 4 ( I am usually 28 days right on until the past few mo. what it did once it started was another story), but it was only 8 days since my last one ended. Thankyou again Mikki

IT = our wonderful, predictable period