HI Ladies!

Well, I finally broke down and signed in to post.

I too have the internal tremors. All over my body. Always at 4:30 am, alays worse before my period. ( I'm 38) I too have run from Dr. to Dr. and from Therapist to Therapist..no one knows. They all want to hand me a RX for Xanex if they are an MD and the ND's want to sell me their piles of supplements.

My question here is don't you wonder why we are from all over the world, and we have all been to various Dr's and not one has the answer? Don' t you think this is odd?

If I hear one more person say well you will have to just ride it out, I am going to scream.

Has anyone ever had a Dr. give them a answer exactly what it is? Not a guess, but a real answer? I have read posts saying their Dr. says it is from estrogen, another says progesterone, another stress, another says, MVP, and then now I just read bursitis! ROFL now that one is a good one!

magnesium will take the edge off but mine do not go away. Ever. Is there any inf I am missing here?

Thanks!

If you find the answer I want to be one of the first to hear it.I truly believe it is a drop of estrogen,but who knows-My dr just admitted my symptoms are caused by peri.It is hard to not know,but if we keep trying to care for our bodies we are doing the right thing.Hope you feel better,GOD bless.

The reason I don't necessarily think is it estrogen is because I have had mine tested through bloodwork as well as saliva by various Dr's, some of which were specifically experts in hormone balancing and my estrogen levels are within range.

I swear I think they are just guessing when they come up with these theories just to quiet us and make us go away.

I swear I just can't grasp that no Dr in the world has the answer and not one book addresses this! LOL I have read every women's health, hormone, peri, menopause, book and it is not mentioned once!

I even had a cousultation with the Pharmacists from Bellvue and I said I have internal tremors and the woman said " Oh you mean you can't quiet your mind?" GRRRRRR

NO ONE GETS IT accept us!

HELP !!!!!!

Hi Shaker! As much as I am saddened that you have this symptom I'm also happy. No not really happy, just re-assured to hear that some other woman has this too. I've had it for 2 1/2 years and everyone has acted like I grew an extra head if I mention it. Mostly it is ignored because it doesn't sound very serious. It used to absolutely freak me out, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. It started even before my menopause hit, so it must've been during peri menopause. Then it went away for a while. But it came back after my menopause started off with a BANG! I usually always have it, but notice it most at night when laying in bed and I'm real still. Sometimes I shake so much I feel that I must be shaking the bed. I also get little tiny cramps in the lower legs too. You can actually see the muscles moving. Then this sometimes will go on all night long I'm guessing because in the morning my legs will be sore as though I had Charley Horses. I've always taken Magnesium and that doesn't do anything for me. I have no idea what it is. My thyroid is a bit out of wack, and I'm getting some new meds. It will be interesting to see if that has any affect. How is your thyroid? I had to LOL about the Oh you can't quiet your mind business. Yes, if you don't have this you just don't get it. If your estrogen is within range, are there some of your hormones that are not within range? Some that are changing?

To some Dear Friends! I must call you of you who are experiencing internal tremors my BEST new friends, because you reassure me I am not CRAZY ! My onset started six weeks ago, I was believing I had a persisting flu- feeling like a fever without the temperature---then the shaking would not go away, a simple google search lead me to you all. Thank heaven. Friends understand, as I read all of your shaking woes, I understand. AS you are all basically describing me. I'm 52 and must be in the thick of 'it' now...

I need HELP, this shaking is literally ruining my life. My kids are grown now, so I decided to go back to school, I'm in law school and I've put too much time, energy, money, and prayers into school to let these tremors trash it all for me. But, I'm hanging on in school by a thread because of this....Honestly, my tremors are on and off all day when I am shaking, I'm not thinking very well.

Oh yeah, about what's going on, how would ya explain why you are not able to keep up - with classmates in their 20's and male professor's in their 60's..(obviously I'm not )

I know this is causing stress, feels like stress as one is experiencing this, but I do not believe this is a 'case of stress'.

On your all advice I've been trying magnesium for the last couple of days, ( how long before there might be an improvement?)
I'm going to find try to find some Natural Calm-ASAP.

I've been trying so hard to take care of myself --- I run, never smoked or drank, try to eat healthy,( no sweets, etc. ---So why is this happening now?


I saw that there was a STUDY GROUP by you all on these tremors, is that still proceeding? Is there a survey I can fill out? Has anyone noticed any external commonality between us? I REALLY want to help figure this out, ASAP!

For example, I do use EQUAL in my coffee, despite my hubby's warnings;)? Could this be part of the puzzle?

LOTS of Questions....

Well, friends, I WELCOME all Your Comments, Ideas, Suggestions and PRAYERS...

My internal shaking disappeared when I started using progesterone cream. I use almost 1/4 tsp twice a day of Progest, which can be bought at health food stores. I had almost all of the 34 symptoms of menopause... the worst were constant anxiety and ocasional rapid heartbeat episodes.. with the progesterone cream my anxiety practically disappeared and my palpitations have improved greatly.

Hope this helps,
Happymom

I didn't even know I had the internal tremors, until someone explain it felt like a purring cat. then A LIGHT BULB MOMENT! Sooooo that what that strange feeling is!
I thought it was anxiety related!

The tremors are not high on my peri symptoms list through, I have much worse other symptoms going on!

I give up on doctors, anything I need to know about peri I learn on PS!

I tend to get these too...I describe them as a vibration in my head...I usually havd it after midpoint in my cycle though I do not believe I am ovulating anymore I think my hormones change a bit around that time. Now I just sort of go with it...always before i just wake up aI have this vibrating buzzing kind of head thing going on.....

I also have thyroid problems under control now but you often hear of this problem on the thyroid boards as well.....that is, I think, becasue the female hormones and the thryoid hormones and others as well, are all part of the endocrine system and when one things gets out of whack, it throw the whole system off....I have no idea how to stop it though...just a possible reason....it is not the highest on my list either and I am riding this one out...I think...!

Hi girls welcome to the world of tremors.....horrible things! I thought my body was going nuts, especially when a neurologist couldn't tell me what was going on. I found PS about 6months after seeing the neurologist and I can tell you I was so happy at finding out that I'm not alone. That was just over 2 years ago and I still have tremors. About 20% the strength of what it was when they first started. They are mainly when I go to bed and when i try to go to sleep. Sometimes they become stronger at certain times of the month. I find this quite annoying as I haven't had a period for 8months but still have tremors when I'm supposed to ovulate and the week before a period would be due.

I have only found a couple of doctors have heard of tremors the others have no idea and look at me like I'm nuts!! But my GP at the moment has a bit of an idea which makes it easier. I think it's all to do with our nervous system hence anxiety, panic, tremors, vibrations etc. Obviously the estrogen is going so it's to do with that as well. I have taken magnesium 1000mg a day for nearly 2 years and I don't know if it helps but I'm not stopping to find out otherwise!! Anyway I wanted to say they do get less, believe me mine were as bad as everyone else who's had them. They were so strong I couldn't work out how it couldn't be felt from the outside of my skin!! I remember reading women saying they become less intense over time and thinking "But I'm going through this now and want it to stop!" but i think tremors will stop in their own good time. Read all the info on this site and try the recomended products to see if they work.

Cheers choco

Internal tremors is the exact thing that brought me to Power Surge. And purring is precisely what it feels like. I don't take anything to stop it because it doesn't scare me. That's because it doesn't hurt. But it's still very strange. One day it was so strong that I actually had my mother hug me once to see if she could feel it. I haven't figured out what causes it, but I've started a journal to keep track of my symptoms -- just a week into it right now. If I discover a pattern, I'll be sure and pass it on.

Yeah, it's crazy that this symptom doesn't show up anywhere. You'd think that ONE of us would have a doctor who'd heard of it. But then I haven't asked mine. She is in such a hurry all the time, she pretty much blows off anything I ask her.

Also, it may not be necessarily peri-related, but caused by something else. We may just be noticing it because we are so much more aware of what our bodies are doing anyway. The anxiety of peri causes us to notice things that most people wouldn't. Lots of people may have it and not realize it, or at least not worry about it. My mom knows a guy who has the same thing, and she said his was so strong you could feel it if you held his hand. And he's obviously not in peri. So who knows? Maybe it's a blood sugar thing or a blood pressure thing rather than hormonal.

I had this REALLY bad in LATE peri, but I also used to notice it sometimes RIGHT before my period, like the day before..I don't know for sure..but I do have a little bit of a theory and it's based on the work of Andrew Herzog (HARVARD) AND Jana Veliskova (ALBERT EINSTEIN)..both psychoneuroendocrinologists. For me these felt like not so little convulsions..so my internet search and book reading led me to Harvard studies using (wait for it...) NATURAL PROGESTERONE for epilepsy. Now I know we're probably not epileptics, but benzodiazepine withdrawal can cause convulsions and we are effectively "withdrawing" from progesterone; the most powerful "benzodiazepine" there is, 200 times more potent than valium (anybody see "Dancing as Fast as I Can" with Jill Clayburgh?). Also, estrogen is somewhat epileptogenic (meaning it causes seizure like activity) although some studies and docs (and I agree) think that estrogen is ALSO an important neuroregulator. In peri, we're getting some wide swings (with estrogen swinging higher than our bodies and brains are used to) withOUT adequate progesterone. So what I think is that we're experiencing some subclinical seizure activity due to hormone withdrawal/fluctuations...If I'm right, then progesterone and/or Klonopin should help on the "milder" end.

Hi There!!
I have had these internal tremors for almost four years now and I really thoght they would be gone by now. I am almost 54 years old and have been in menopause for 6 years. The tremors started two years after my periods stopped completly. It is so strange as I only have the symptons on the left side of my body. I have it from the calf down into the foot and from the shoulder to the base of the neck. Sometimes it is extremly strong and shaking other times quieter. Mostly when I am sleeping or going to sleep or just sitting and relaxing. Very hard to relax with something like this going on. I feel I am plugged into a socket. It is like a humming buszzing vibrating trembling shakey feeling. Have been to numerous docs and they think I am crazy when I expalin this. All they want to do is give you antidepressants or anxiety meds. Well i do believ having this has caused alot of unecessay anxiety. Sometimes if I let my imagination go I can literally panic. I just will be so happy when the day comes that I can feel total peace {but still be aliive of course} Any way would love to chat with you and others who have this. Also do you have it all over or only on one side of the body? Take Care Sincerely, Gemlee53


















Well, I finally broke down and signed in to post.

I too have the internal tremors. All over my body. Always at 4:30 am, alays worse before my period. ( I'm 38) I too have run from Dr. to Dr. and from Therapist to Therapist..no one knows. They all want to hand me a RX for Xanex if they are an MD and the ND's want to sell me their piles of supplements.

My question here is don't you wonder why we are from all over the world, and we have all been to various Dr's and not one has the answer? Don' t you think this is odd?

If I hear one more person say well you will have to just ride it out, I am going to scream.

Has anyone ever had a Dr. give them a answer exactly what it is? Not a guess, but a real answer? I have read posts saying their Dr. says it is from estrogen, another says progesterone, another stress, another says, MVP, and then now I just read bursitis! ROFL now that one is a good one!

magnesium will take the edge off but mine do not go away. Ever. Is there any inf I am missing here?

Thanks!
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Just a thought...I bet if MEN experienced these, it would be an entire Medical Specialty unto itself!!!!!!!!!

I have a thought abou them that I just came up with. How are all of your teeth? Amalgams? I have a mouth full of crowns, amalgams,etc. I have a friend who has internal tremors too, she too has a mouth full of metal.

My problem is that if it is menopause, why are people through it and still having tremors or people are in their early 30's and having them? Do we know for sure it is peri or menopause?

OK ladies, let's hear it. How are your teeth????Amalgams are known to effect the nervous system as well as other organs.

If men went through this then they would have huge medical centers that treat this! You know that for sure

Hi eveyone! All I can say is this site has been a God-send!! I started having peri symptoms 9 months ago (a panic attack and dizziness on while on vacation. At this point, I had never heard of perimenopause. Since then, I have been to all kinds of doctors to check out dizziness, anxiety, heart palps, clogginess in ears, like I'm under water(no help from ear, nose throat doc at all),mood swings, and lately I have just started experiencing the night sweats and the trembling. It definately feels like there is a vibrator inside my body. This last symptom really threw me for a loop, and scared me to death. The only help I have received is from an alternative doctor, who started me on the progesterone cream, as well as a few other supplements. Sometimes I feel like I have some disease that is just slowly manifesting its symptoms! Oh yes, the muscle twitching started up too, at that is very worrisome to me at times. I am 36 yrs. old , and I really don't talk about my symptoms anymore to anyone-they either say I am too young for this or are just tired of me talking about it. Anyway, I get much reassurance from this site. This is the first time I have posted anything, but I read other messages often. Good Luck to everyone else out there going through this-it sounds like it does get better!

HI Ohio Girl,

I TOTALLY understand what you're going through...I'm 36 too and into perimenopause. I have all the same symptons you do...internal shaking/tremors at night, muscle twitches, tingling...etc...mine started with an anxiety attack and I have gotten worse from there and of course every doctor wants to put me on an anti-anxiety drug, (which I finally agreed to take Lexapro), only 5 mg, which is the half recommended dose, but it hasn't done anything for me. I don't feel anxious...I just want to know what is going on with my body, why do I have this? What is it? Is it related to perimenopause...which of course my regular doesn't believe I have because I'm too young, so he wouldn't even test my hormones...Thank goodness I made an appt w/ my OB, and she did the hormone test, which DID show I was perimenopause, but she has never heard of the internal shaking/vibrating either...Now, sometimes during the day, I have vibrations in my chest for only a few seconds and then they go away...I have been to a cardiologist, and again, normal...Sometimes my legs, from my pelvis down, feels like its buzzing??? Weird??? Have you gone back to your doctor?

Hi Yak, welcome to PS and the tremors section. Read all the information around here and the message boards and you will feel relief when you find that you are "normal" whatever that means during peri You will find tremors move around your body stopping and starting all the time.....sometimes they can buzz for a long time in the one spot though. Just make sure you have a check up with your Doctor and rule anything else out. Then just get on with living with tremors coz they stay around for awhile!!

Cheers choco

Hi Choco,

Thanks for getting back to me and giving me the information...it makes me feel better that there are people out there with the same thing. I've gone to I don't know how many book stores looking for perimenopause ~ internal/tremor/buzzing, and nothing!!! It just makes me mad! And why the doctors don't know and just want to put you on Meds!!! AHHH...sorry, just venting...I've been going to doctors for 2 years now and have how many medical bills...when the shaking/tremors/buzzing are all apart of perimenopause. Goodness!!! I know I'm young at 36, but I wish some doctor would have figured it out by now....thanks soooo much for getting back to me, you made my day.

Thanks again.

I mentioned this to several docs and two finally said it was hormonal. My regular MD even said it was the most common problem for women is internal shaking. try magnesium, it helped me. its an awful feeling, like the blood sugar is dropping and you missed a meal. goodluck!!!

So, I'm at a new job and sitting in a meeting with one other person going over a few things and I had to stop and ask him if the floor was shaking as I felt this funny vibration in my butt. Well, the floor was not shaking it was my insides.....of course I didn't tell him that. This was awhile back but I had to post it and, hopefully, give you all and myself a giggle..hahahahahahaha.....it's funny now but it wasn't funny then.

Every morning, just before I wake up, but am aware, my head is vibrating....REALLY buzzing and vibrating inside...just the head.....EVERY MORNING...what is this! I at 47 I am still having a scant period regularly every month and myovarian hormones by blood show all ok.....EVERY MORNING bzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!

I think I had it today. It feels like my blood sugar drops and I get really tired and my body just is shaky. It happened the other day too when I had my 17 month old nephew and mother out in my car. I was just so hot and thought I might faint. I got nervous because my mother doesn't drive.
I take magnesium but I guess I will have to up the dosage.

Thank god for all these posts, I posted in probably the wrong section earlier, as I was in a mass panic. I had this experience earlier whilst I was in a shop, my head and neck started to vibrate like it was on spin or that someone had put a vibrator in my head, it freaked me out I was holding onto the counter!!! It propbably lasted about 5 seconds but felt like it was ages. Interestingly someone said that this can occur with Thyroid issues, does anyone kow if this is for under / over or both?

Is this normal though? and why do none of the doctors know or understand it? I am only 32

Hi AAngels, actually from what you described with your head and neck sounds like what I get and my DD she is 32 and it's what we call "A head spin". You get this massive buzz through the head and neck, doesn't last very long, thank goodness!! It hits out of the blue, not like normal head spins when you get up from sitting and you go dizzy, usually when the blood pressure drops. I forget about it then this one happens, it can be very scarey. I've felt the same and I just shut my eyes for the time it buzzes then go on with whatever I'm doing. I must ask the GP next time I go what it is, maybe to do with the nerves in our necks because they can buzz and carry on. It's not tremors that we talk about here that is an entirely different feeling and happens all over the body and for a length of time.

Just make sure for your peace of mind go and see you GP for a check up. I think you'll find nothing is wrong. If they do tell you what causes this I would like to know.

Cheers choco

Hi Choco

Thanks for this, I am in treatment with a chiro whom I saw last week as well, he had to adjust my neck so I will ask him as well.

Not sure what its like in Australia but i sometimes lose faith in the GP's, half the time they dont have a clue and the decent ones you can never get to see!

If you get to the GP before I do, let me know what they have said.

All I know was that I wasnt sure if I was about to pass out, but didnt, it freaked me out and was just really strange.

Thanks for the reassurance though x

Hi Dearest and all

New to your site today 14th oct

Greetings from UK

Cold and Grey!

In the last two weeks I have suffered from what I think might be these internal tremors you are all communicating about. I am 46 and along with these tremors actually felt very dizzy and like I was going to faint. Unfortunately I work in an enviroment where fainting could be very dangerous and was sent home to visit doc. Doctor took bloods, results negative, but still feeling really weird. Are you all experiencing periods of tremors and not a constant feeling of shaking/buzzing/loss of equilibrium or like me is it fairly constant on attempting activity, even just getting up from sofa and walking around?Not sdure whether I have a virus as doctor suggested or if in fact is more likely am experiencing what you all describe. Have just had a funny month to 8wks of spotting inbetween periods and period/spotting every two weeks, whereas previously I have always been regular as clockwork since age of 10..... would really VALUE any comments/replies Angel14

Hi Shaker and all with internal tremors,
My name is Mary1 and I just joined. I have been reading for awhile and decided it was time to help some of you. It sounds like some don't want to hear that these internal tremors are from menopause. THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!1
I have been suffering from these for about 1 year. They are a nightmare for me. Heavy trembles all over inside my body. First I thought I must be going crazy and worked myself into high anxiety and then panic attacks. It mostly happens at night when I go to bed. But if I get overly stressed it will come on quickly. It is menopause, and can be aggrivated by stress, some foods, ex:caffine, etc.
I have had the blood tests done for my FSH and am considered post menapause. All that means is that you would not have had a period for 12 consecutive months. The symptoms can last for years. MD will want you to take anti-depressents and relaxers. That is fine if you choose, I would never put you down. Basically if it is bad as I have it you have to do what ever you can to live. Before I researched much I did let them put me on effexor and clonopin. I don't like taking drugs, Rx or not. So I weaned off and have been working with an educated herbalist. Now remember herbs are drugs to, so if you choose that route you have to go to someone who knows what they are doing.
Get a magnesium powder. Health food stores will have it. I drink 1 c in the am and pm. AFter you body gets settled down you can do 1 c at bedtime. It really depends on your body, you may need more or less.
Also, calcium, soy milk, ice water. Most of all learn some relaxing techniques so you don't work yourself into a panic.
I am only 48 and started this about 1/2 years ago, but hind sight being what it is, I think I started much younger. They say the average age in this country is 48-52 and getting younger all the time. Most likely the chemicals and processed foods. We all know they are killing us, so look at your diet. Exercise. This is all sounding easy, I am the first one to tell you I faulter every day.
I do wish I would have found this page a year ago, I was ready to have them drug me to the point that could not function. It shouldn't be like that. This is a natural phase and we can get thorugh it. (I will have to remember that statement at 11pm tonight)


Hope all gets better.
Mary520

This is patty. Glad to "hear" from you.

I wonder if any of you have external twitching as well as the internal stuff?? My internal stuff feels like a vibration/ buzzing most of the time and is worse at night but I also feel it during the day when I'm stressed. I also have muscle fatigue and stiffness.

I can't believe how long this persists in some people and it is depressing to think it can go on for a while.

I tried magnesium but had diarrhea but I may try a different formulation.

Thanks for the advice!

Hi,
I had terrible buzzing and stomach problems that arose after taking an antibiotic for a sinus infection in the Spring of 2005. Then I was put on a benzodiazepine called ativan. It made me very addicted and I was extremely ill from it. I am a special education teacher and I actually had to stop teaching in my 25th year because of benzodiazepines. I was given further medications to treat the side effects of these potent drugs and then eventually I went off them all in Jan of 06. I was incredibly ill and missed a year of school. Tranquilizers were orginially created to anethsetize animals at the circus to make them more compliant. They suppress the central nervous system and gradually the cns rebels, so to speak, and like a big spring being pushed down it begins to push back in many ways. The cns regulates everything from breathing to motility of the gut and when benzodiazepines like klonipin, ativan and diazepam (valium) target the neurotransmitters in your body that regulate all activities, they cause havoc, if not in the short term, certainly in the long term. Your body goes into something called tolerance where the drug isn't working anymore and then you need more and more to attain the same effect.
I had over a hundred symptoms, but the worst one was internal buzzing, like I was plugged into an outlet. I dropped to 112 lbs from my usual 140lbs at 5'6" and my cns was incredibly raw. So why did this all happen to me?
My symptoms were misdiagnosed. Now I know that I was going through pari-menopause and subsequently menopause. I can't even tell you how sick I was but that is why this site is such a Godsend in allowing women to see that these symptoms are sensations that are a natural part of estrogen withdrawal or diminishing levels, if that sounds more acceptable.
I was a healthy, happy teacher with three wonderful children of my own, two at university and one in high school and I went through an awful time. My family was convinced that I was dying. I truly was that sick. I was pacing in circles due to SSRI induced akathisia at one point.
Now I am back teaching special education as a spec. ed specialist and working with children with severe difficulties. I am busy and happy. I am home today with a bad head cold but basically I've been very, very well, because I stay away from medications and products that are touted as natural. Natural to me only means something that is naturally grown in the ground. I only eat steamed veggies, organic chicken and natural foods and I drink a ton of water with lemon squeezed in it for vitamin C. This is the first cold I've had in two years and I expect it to clear up pretty quickly, with no help except from my own immune system.
My point is this: I am still buzzing at times, when I'm tired or today with this cold, but for the most part, it has gone away, after two years of steady buzzing and a host of other far worse symptoms. But what I've learned is that we try to treat everything with quick fixes and if we recognize that things take time to heal, take time to go away, take time to change, then we do ourselves the biggest favour there is...we give ourselves TIME. The other thing I've learned is that if we just treat symptoms as sensations, as something to not fear but to accept and observe, we allow ourselves to move forward inspite of them. And gradually, they really do dissappear. If I had found this site and known that menopause and fluxuating estrogen can cause a host of sensations, I wouldn't have gone through benzodiazepine addiction (and anyone using them is likely an iatrogenic addict) and withdrawal worse than heroin withdrawal.
I applaud the people here who are coming up with natural ways and coping strategies to address these disturbing but harmless sensations. Eat well, exercise and know that they do diminish with time.
BuzzingSoMuch

And by the way, I chose my name many months ago when my buzzing was considerably greater than it is now. :
Love and hugs

I was wondering if anyone has muscle stiffness along with the twitches and tremors?? This really freaks me out. I sometimes have trouble walking due to the stiffness and I feel like I am walking like Frankenstein! My muscles get tired very easily as well.

patty

I have it all: buzzing, stiff mucles, pinched nerves, muscle cramps ( Charlie horse like pain) in my hips, thighs, lower back, upper back, you name it. It is worse during suppose "ovulation" time and week before period.
I resorted to Xanax after my mother death, and now I feel like it is not working anymore. I been taking 0.5 mg before bed and now I have to add another 0.25 midafternoon or I get bad axniety. I compared some of the symptoms like buzzing, internal tremors, shakes, and muscle cramps with Xanax side effects on the web, and I am positive, it is overlapping my perimenopausal symptoms. Xanax works pretty fast and but wears out even faster.
I get internal tremors and buzzing mostly around bed time and sometimes, even I take Xanax, I wake up few times a night with racing heart ( or what it feels like racing), sweaty, and scared. I believe it is nocturnal panic attacks, and it happens mostly days 9-14 and then close to my period. At this point, I feel like I need to get off Xanax, but I need to find out how to taper off safely, even my dose was very low it still get accumulated in tissues.
I strongly believe that most symptoms caused by constant estrogen fluxes that pure autonomic system in constant state of alert and "fight" response. It is exhausting and energy draining and I am not sure what to do at this point. My major fear of getting off xanax - ability to sleep, I am afraid to go to bed and lay there, not being able to sleep, or waking up with jolts.
Buzzingsomuch,
I can relate with the benzos experience, I had some buzzing before but not as much since I started to use xanax. I do eat clean and try most organic too, although I think organic is mostly gimmick in this country, but still eat very clean and natural diet and exercise, although feel slightly better than at the beginning of the periomenopause, but still far from being normal.
I wonder if you could share experience how to safely tapper off Xanax if I am at low dose.
Thanks,
I.

Thanks for the response!

Sorry you're having such troubles with the Xanax. My GYN wants me to take an anti-depressant and I'm not keen on starting anything but I do have trouble sometimes just getting through the day. This site is a MAJOR help. Have you tried melatonin for sleep? I found it helpful and without the hangover effect that I had with advil pm.

I'm glad to hear that someone else has this annoying stiffness though I certainly don't wish it on any one!!

patty

Patty
I have tried every supplement on earth before resorting to Xanax including Melatonin. I started xanax as you said it, to get through the day and keep my job, marriage, etc. It helped me to start driving on freeway again, before I had bad panic attacks while driving and almost crushed my car.
I am afraid of all OTC pain medications more than anything else, better sleeping pills.
The stiffness is typical symptoms of low estrogen, it hurts badly, but stretching helps to certain degree. Some days I am completely normal, some days- train wreck, and I feel like 90 yo lady, even I am only 50.
it gets better in a sense, so may be BuzzingSoMuch is right, it takes time to start seeing light at the end of the tunnel. But I have days when I start thinking of HRT when I am feeling not well, like today. Overall, it is either AD and benzos, or HRT and other things to deal with.
HTH,
I.

I know what you mean about just trying to get throught the day-that's me right now. I'm glad this "stuff" gets better. I just feel so jittery all of the time and wonder if I'll ever feel "right" again. This stiffness doesn't really hurt-which is a blessing- but it does make me feel like an old lady at 48!

You should be proud of yourself for trying to get off meds that aren't helping you any more. I agree with you, by the way, about the " organic" stuff-just a gimmick that they can charge more for!

patty

I feel like my life is ruined too with this vibrating (internal) - is yours internal and like a buzzing? I've had this over 2 yrs. and come to the conclusion: 1. It is generalized anxiety disorder and vibrating is a part of that (or) 2. I have some start of a neurological disease (or) 3. It is from hormone loss or imbalance. I'm 56 so certainly in menopause. I don't smoke or live bad either. I've learned to use relaxation tapes while laying down to calm down. I take ativan only when necessary. I think I am going to do the saliva test to see how hormones look. I won't necessarily take anything but just curious what that looks like. I may go to a neurologist and I may try lexipro. When I have more stress in my life, the shaking is worse and causes anxiety thinking, resulting in a continual cycle. I go for massages once every 2 weeks and I take many hot showers to relax. I think hormones- depleting, changing, etc. can have a terrible effect in the body and if this is the case, I'd feel more relieved than to think it's a terrible disease.

Such fascinating and helpful posts. I hadn't had the internal shaking until a few weeks ago. Some, symptoms have gone completely..for three or four years.. eg..'twitchy' legs at night, insomnia ( chronic !), tingling in fingers,feeling of having an obstacle in throat ( hospital thorough check up ..It was caused by..anxiety) palpitations and severe, panic attacks. Left are..anxiety attacks with dizziness and recently, the delight of internal shakes. Weird. I'm 57 and five, years post menopause. I am almost cheered up by having a new symptom because hopefully it means that at least things are changing and perhaps there'll be some more improvement ! I mean..four years ago it would have been a knock down drag out panic attack. Things are looking up !

I am older than you and I started the shakes around 43 and they lasted for years. I have it all documented. They would usually last for a week or two and then stop. Sometimes I would have 2 bouts of it in a month and sometimes only one and then sometimes I would skip months. It always came on in the evening and during those days I would often feel sick and have a terrible headache that would not quit... ever. I was wondering if anyone else would experience it like waves of tremors? My whole body would tighten up trying to deal with each wave through my body. It kind of reminded me of the way contractions during child birth would come on but there was less time between. You know this was even worse than those contractions because at least that was over in a few hours and then I felt great!

I have also tested positive for Lyme and they are trying to figure out if I really do have it or not. If I really do have it then I have had it for 8 years! There are often false positives with this. I thought maybe the tremors could have been the Lyme virus too. For me is was very distinctive with this wave type feeling where I would tremor for a few seconds then stop for a few seconds and then tremor again. It was not one long tremor. I don't know how I ever fell asleep during that time. I am 52 now and I all my symptoms are significantly less. Amazing I made it through my 40's without hormones. Had I been working I am sure I would have had to go on them. I was so miserably hot all the time. I was hot flashing for years and summers were particularly bad. I think the tremors came and went for 2-3 years! It was bad.

I have just joined power surge & am finding people's comments so interesting. I am 49 in August & apparently the only one of my friends going through perimenopause. I have miserable hot flashes & have had no period for 6 months. After the hot flashes I get a total chill down, & at night shake uncontrollably. I thought it was nerves, but reading these quotes, I feel a bit better that I'm not having seizures. I started taking black cohosh just yesterday because I'm running out of steam. I had the 1st of 3 fsh blood tests to determine my level of menopause, & I can't wait to get the results. I have a much clearer understanding of what my mother was going through @ this same age. I too stick my head my head in the freezer, then put on a fleece because I'm freezing. My boyfriend is a little scared I think. My flashes are worse at work. They seem to occur every 1 1/2 hours on the dot. I can feel when they are about to happen, too. So I have a little fan w/a belt clip hooked onto my belt loop for a little relief. The other day I got my hair caught in it. Anyway I am
happy I found this website, & I'm going to share it with my sister!!!!

I have had internal 'purring' - I have described it as that for years- since aged 25 and am now 51. I have chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia, but the whole thing got much worse at peri, ten years back. I added the awful burning, hypersensitive skin to the muscle twitches. My purring moves around! I even get it in my spine!

I have suffered with the internal shaking for almost 10 years. It is just terrible, and I sympathize with all of you who have gone through all the nonsense with the doctors. I tried everything, spent countless hours and dollars on doctors, medicine and natural products and nothing helped. For a time, I had to quit work, I was shaking so bad. For the last six months, I have used the NuvaRing. My doctor gave it to me for hyperplasia. Well, guess what? The shaking is totally gone. When I stop using the NuvaRing for one week out of the month, the shaking comes back. This tells me the shaking has to be hormonal, probably due to loss of estrogen, as many have suspected. BTW, I feel so much better with the NuvaRing. I tried to go through this naturally, but it was a nightmare. I am so glad I have my life back. Now, I am wondering now how long I can stay on the NuvaRing. No shaking, WHOOPEE!!!