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Nina Bellanti

Nov 6 2002, 09:38 AM

for the last few months i have been experienceing terrible mucsle and joint paint and stiffness during day 3-16 of my cyle. do any of you women experience this. i dont know why it would be so bad at this time. Can water retention make your muscles and joints sore? Help im going absolutley crazy with the pain and the wondering. Im only 38 and i feel like im 70.

Dec 3 2002, 09:08 PM

Angela--9 days of bleeding? Can't this be regulated with progesterone?

I am 48, started to have continuous bleeding, sometimes over 14 days. My dr. now has me on prometrium, 200 mg for days 7-21 of my cycle. it stops the bleeding. I am also taking 2 soy tablets a day, plus other phytoestrogens from my soy-laden diet. I have stopped night sweats. I also stopped getting terrible headaches, which I had prior to taking the prometrium.

I have just started to notice achiness, (day 17 of cycle). It seems to be helped with 1 gram of vitamin c, 150 MG B-complex, 1000 MG of MSM. Exercise also helps it. Am doing gyrotonics, yoga-like weight-bearing gentle exercise. very pleasant.

anyway, there is hope, it is just terribly frustrating to find the right "fix" for one's complex system. and drs. are rarely interested in helping with this detective work. but it is possible. you don't have to live with the discomfort. but it does take time to figure it out.

Best,

Karen E.

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Quote: from AngelaS on 3:50 am on Dec. 1, 2002[br]I've been dealing with this since I was 38; I am going to be 50 in 3 weeks. So, this is almost 12 years of perimenopausal symptoms. My muscle and joint aches as well as headaches usually start the 3rd day of my period and last about 1 to 1 1/2 weeks. This month has been a record for me in every way: 9 days of bleeding, 8 days of headaches, muscle and joint aches except for 3 days, and I am about to start my period again any day now. Life can't get much "better" than this ):I hope this isn't too discouraging?

tmm

Jan 5 2003, 07:04 PM

My body was aching so bad (to the extent it will wake me up in the middle of the night) and I even started to think I had fibromyalgia, but once I started on bio-identical biest, it has helped me a *lot* and some days I have no pain at all. I am still tweaking the estrogen dosage to see if I can eliminate it all together throughout the cycle.

tmm

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