yeah, it's mydarling again..lol.. geez, I can't get through ONE day now without smething else happening.....and that's really my question - from what I've read, between my own posts, and everyone elses, I get the impression that these "symptoms" we're all dealing with seem to JUST START UP ONE DAY, out of the blue ..... and then, once that's happened, POW!!!!!!! then you're IN FOR IT! It seems from everyones posts, ESPECIALLY MINE...that yeah, once this STARTS, it's like an AVALANCHE, RATHER QUICKLY too, doesn't it seem likethat.

I mean, I always had the impression that with meno or even peri, that these "symptoms" come on you SLOWLY over time....HA HA HA...i know...silly me! But, seriously, since I didn't really know UNTIL NOW, I had that impression. I can remember my own mother, (she died in 1988 of ovarian cancer), having hot flashes, pains and aches...but she kind of made light of it, at least to ME, yhou know, probably not to worry me. But, I don't remember her having an AVALANCHE of symptoms ALL OF A SUDDEN, VERY QUICKLY, like myself and a lot of other women here seem to be experienceing. So I ended up with the impression that this happens over time......well, that's not the case here it seems, right?

IS THAT REALLY NORMAL? I have an appt. today with an endocrenologist, once again, because my right leg still aches, this is day two (no wait, three, I think), and the ache ws so bad last night, I had to take 2 tylenol PM's just to sleep, this is bad.

anyway girls, that's my big question: IS IT REALLY NORMAL FOR THIS TO SUDDENLY COME ON US OUT OF NOWHERE? AND THEN TO LITERALLY GO FULL SWING INTO AN AVALANCHE OF SYMPTOMS ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER, WITH NO BREATHING ROOM?

my darling: I owe you an email!!!! Can you forgive me? I've been going through my own mini avalanche lately. Yes, I think what you said hit the nail on the head. It all seemed to happend at once. It's overwhelming..

With me, also - "happened overnight." Can't stick with ONE symptom per day - have to run through a few at a time and when I get used to them, another set rears it's ugly head. I am post seven years.

Back on Jan. 4th 2003 I wake up one hour after falling to sleep> sweating and my heart pounding! (my first)
I really thought I was having a heart attack! I went to the ER, shorty after arriving I was shivering!
Few more attack and another trip to the ER I saw my pcm, he may had been a man but knew what was going on.
He gave me ativan TG!!!!!!
Then it's like everything snowball! I still had a few good days back then, where now there are none.
I hope this is a sign the end is near!
I'm 50 & exhausted! These are lost years!

If I look back, knowing what I know now, I can see peri symptoms 4-5 years back, but I had no idea that's what they were.

It wasn't until the hot flashes started that I was awakened. And they came on strong all of the sudden ! I had the first one and for 9 days after they hit me more than once an hour.

I absolutely agree. I think when peri first begins, the signs are subtle. Know what I mean? The muscles aches, or headaches or feelings of light headedness....we all put it down to something else. It never stays long, so therefore, an 'episode' of being dizzy is caused by stuffed ears, or a headache is from sleeping wrong or...I'm sure you get the idea. Then, by the later phase of peri, all hell breaks loose. Suddenly all the 'signs' descend at once and it's like a tidalwave we didn't see coming. Unfortunately (for myself anyway), I have few 'signs' that come and go. Most came and never left. Granted, the ones that are still there, do have days when they're less problematic, but their still there nonetheless.

So yeah...boy do I agree....For at least the last year and a half, my body has felt it's been in all out hormonal warfare with no let up. No chance to have a little R&R...just a constant barrage. You're right, it is exhausting and disheartening. We feel our lives have been stolen and we just want it back. Honestly, I would give everything just to have inner peace again...

I think I would have to agree...there were slight signs over the last few years and then it did seem like all of a sudden within a short amount of time all kinds of wierd symptoms came. It feels like a constant flow of symptoms...but always cycling. I think I'll get a blank calendar and start jotting down what I feel each day and see if there is anything familiar with my cycle and symptoms.

This site makes all of it easier to deal with...to know everyone else feels this craziness in our mood and body makes it easier to keep moving. There are days when it feels like it would be just fine to lay down and be done....but that drive to go on keeps us trudging on. I just want to know what it's like to feel calm and peaceful again....to be relaxed and not in emotional or physical pain.

Marie

I agree with you, Tay--peri does seem to sneak up on you and we do tend to brush the symptoms off like they're nothing. Menopause? It's probably not on most people's minds at that time. And then . . . one day, out of the blue: Kapow! And life as we knew it is over. This last year has been a rollercoaster of symptoms and emotions for me--mostly not positive ones. I can only hope that once this is all over, I'll be normal again--whatever that was. These stupid little hormones sure have made my life--and all of ours on here--a pain in the buns.