OH ladies, I think I'm going to jump off the nearest bridge! I can't take this! I'm going from one symptom to another, RAPIDLY! I mean, it was lke, all of a sudden my body went nuts! Ok, yes, last May all this insanity started, because I had this UTI from hell, for almost 2 weeks! Then I felt like I'dbeen hit by a truck for about a week after that. But I passed through the summer relativley "ok" (not really, I still had continuous vaginal itiching!), but then about A MONTH AGO the REAL zaniness began. So in about a MONTH, Ive gont through about 4 different REALLY BAD symptoms!

Yesterday I was feeling sort of "ok", so I laid down on my couch around midnight to take a little snooze, I slept for about 4 hrs., great, right? not so...I had this werid horrendous dream (is anyone having terrible dreams?), so I sat up on the couch, reassured myself it was a dream, got up to get some coke in the fridge, and went back to the couch, feeling kind of lightheaded and "off balance". Well, I thought to myself, no biggie, this is just a little off balance (which by the way, I had twice last week) and it'll pass, I'll just go back to sleep. HA HA HA HA HA!
Joke's on me! I woke up about 2 hrs. later, and WOW, dizzy, queasy, lightheaded, WEIRD in the head.
OK, so now, my heart starts poundng, because you're positive you have a brain tumor or something! lOL....but at the time, it's not funny. I stayed awake till my hubby got home, he works the graveyard shift, and gets home about 8:30am, told him all this. He tried to calm me down, butI was a nervous wreck. Remember, I was still feeling off balance and nauseaus, slightly dizzy. Well, when he comes home in the morn. he goes to bed, so I laid down with him, HOPING it would go away. NO SUCH LUCK! Everytime I'd turn from one side to the other, OH BOY, i think its my equilibrium. Now, I'm up and walking around and feeling weird. I'm not as off balance as before, but I feel so darn strange in my head, I feel sinusy too, which I do get. It's like this weird pressure on the left side of my head, sinsus feeling. But, if I move my head in a certain way, OH BOY, off balance and queasy. I called a friend of mine who dealt with this for 5 mos. when she was pregnant years ago, and she was diagnosed at the time, with an inner ear infection, which I kind of wonder if this could be that. I called my GYN, I only got the nurse, but she said this sounded to her, like peri,...and hormones.

DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE THIS, OR SOMETHING SIMILIAR? Hey, as I'm sitting here typing this, I can also feel now that my RIGHT HAND feels weird, and like I can't move it as easily. I mean, obviusly I'm typing, but it feels strange..........UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Mydarling, I'm having those symptoms as well at the moment with an added insecurity on my legs as if theywant to give way. These symptoms just come and go as they please ,I usually have a period of feeling great and then bam!!!! ...I hope you feel better soon, it can only get better for us

hey I will jump off that bridge with you......it seems I go thru the worse times of the month a couple weeks after my period. I have myself diagnosed with all kinds of diseases, feeling woozy and dizzy, having bizarre aches and pains in places I never had them before, strange headaches that I think I have a brain tumor, strange stomach aches that somehow make my jaw and ears hurt, just an unwell feeling I can't put into words -- I just sit and look up symptoms and what I might have and worry myself even more. I never used to be like this, I have turned into a monster and wish I could be my old self again cause I miss that person. I am 49 and wil be the dreaded 5-0 this year and just do not want to think about it as it depresses me even more to think I have been on this earth 1/2 a century and what happened to my youth.....it just goes on and on. I am so glad I found all of you here and can relate to most of you and what you are all going thru at the same time I am.

I just came on the forum to post that my head was feeling really weird today...hoping to find someone to tell me they feel this too. And her you all are. I've had the dizzy, off balance thing...but today it feels like my head is rocking back and forth and if I turn my head too fast it kinda flips inside. My right ear is feeling full, my stomach feels like something is pulling on it. My husband was talking to me this morning and as he was talking I felt like I left my body and mind....like my ability to think and process just stopped...honestly I feel like i could drop to the floor at times. I walked around a corner in my house and it felt like I dropped 3 feet, like on an elevator...that was new and interesting. My days consist of being way too aware of every little feeling in my body and head and trying to convince myself that i don't have a brain tumor or neurological thing going. My shoulder muscles are continuously tensed up around my ears and i am not aware that I'm doing it..then I'll relax them only to find them up again later. I feel like I am living outside my body and at times I feel like I am so super aware of what is going on in my body..that i feel like I am stuck in there. I also have a zapping sensation up the side of my head and pressure on my breastbone that comes and goes. I guess all of it comes and goes....I just want it to go for good. No wonder we are all exhausted...the stress of this stuff takes away your energy. i feel like i can't even think straight today...does anyone else space out big time...like they feel like their brain is seizing or derailing?
Marie

yes, of course! are you kidding?! that's exactly what I was saying, and I STILL get it! isn't this to much? I feel detached, like I'm watching everything on a movie screen! Yes, I feel so weak sometimes, like I could drop to the floor myself. I feel like my legs, are very weak an achy! ESPECIALLY MY THIGHS! I to am now very very aware of every little mark, bruise, twitch, ache, pain...you name it, and then I'm CERTAIN i have some dreaded killer diseaase! LOL oh man , I haven't felt like "me" in MONTHS, and this all just started up SUDDENLY, yeah, about 8 mos . ago, after I had a UTI from hell. I've never been the same.
So, don't feel alone, at least we all here have each other to ease our fears! Thank God!

Mydarling
I am with you my friend. I started skipping periods last March. In September my hot flashes started. Anxiety went through the roof in December. In January the dizziness/nausea/migraines began. The worst of the dizziness occured a few days before my period (after 4 months of not having one) I am still feeling dizzy, and I am getting migraines now. I also experience nightmares like I have never experienced before. I never know what the days and night will bring. I don't have the tingly hands, but I have tingly toes. In one hour I can go from happy to sad, to happy to sad, to happy to sad.......Can we say 'emotional roller coaster'?
I do have low blood pressure and I have always been on the anemic side, and I think Peri has exasperated all my 'minor' conditions.
Don't jump off the bridge......the bridge may be swaying right now, but I feel confident that this too shall pass. In the meantime...Thank Goodness for Power Surge !!
Hugs

Hello Ladies,
I just came to PS because I just started to feel 'off'. Can't really describe it very well, I was feeling quite tired but put it down to 2 late nights & I was just making tea when I suddenly felt as though I was weak & hadn't the strength to stay standing, even though I wasn't physically weak. I went & sat down & just felt anxious & weird, so I tried to relax physically as I didn't want to bring on a panic attack. My head felt a little spacey & then it seemed to go off a bit.

Marie, I can totally relate to your experience. Last night I was driving & I suddenly felt as though my brain just froze up. I couldn't think very well, as though any thought just hit a brick wall. My head felt tight & then I felt a little surge of panic & then it went off. It only lasted a few seconds & I was able to continue to drive throughout but it was really weird & scared me.
I do remember having similar symptoms 2 years ago when peri first started for me & I remember having a few months of mild but weird cognitive problems, then it seemed to just clear.

I feel like my hormones are out of whack this week anyway as my period started on day 17? & I had a day of terrible palpitations that day. I've been feeling hot all the time & a bit revved up so I'm really hoping it's just my weird & not so wonderful hormones!
Really helps to know others are going through this too, although I wish that none of us were!
Thanks for sharing!
Marchgirl xx