Dear friends,
I am so stiff and sore anymore. It just seems to get worse. I am wondering if anyone has noticed the pain and stiffness and soreness worsens before and during your period. Does it get somewhat better after your period is over. Does this go away after menopause? I can't handle this anymore. I hurt from the waist down and can hardly walk anymore. I find myself very exhausted at the end of the day trying to hold in the pain. Does anyone have any good suggestions for pain and soreness in the bones and joints? Thanks

Pain and soreness and sore joints can be heightened by hormonal deficiencies....and right before, and during the first couple of days of your period is when your hormone levels are at their lowest, so there sure could be a correlation there.

As for how do deal with the pain, I don't know that I can help a whole lot. Make sure you magnesium levels are high enough....constant pain will use up magnesium like crazy which can increase pain....which deplete mag even more...which makes pain increase more....well you get the picture!!!

Floater, thanks for the tip. I have Natural Calm, a magnesium supplement sitting in my cupboard. I hadn't given it a thought for at least a year. I am going to start taking it. Thank you! Deb

UGH!!!!! ... ME TOO!!!!!!

Did it help ?? can anyone let me know if the Magnesium helps .. ahhh ,, I am day 34 since my last period and I think Im having what they call a "Phantom" period minus the uterine cramping ,, horrible body aches ,, (takend 6 advil so far today), anxiety/panic attack, sneeziny allergies, this is HORRIBLE. I can tell that this phantom period seems to be drifing off as my body aches are lessioning a little since yeaterday, and Im a little less fuzzy headed. This happened to me a month or so ago ,, so I may or may not get a period this time. I am 51 and my periods have been very sporadic at best. 28 days apart, then 19, then 56, then 22, then 17 ,, now 34 this time Im thinking I am hurtling headlong into the end there ,, PLEASE someone tell me this all gets better after it all stops .. that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Anyone else that can shed a light on this horrible aching I would greatly appreciate it !!!

OH PLEASE, THIS HAS TO GET BETTER SOMEDAY! I can't go on like this much longer myself, the aches and pains are horrible! Now, it's my upper back .... I'm waiting for my head to fall off!

I have found that all these symptoms are due to low estrogen. I had them all except the sneezing allergies, and using Estrogel has helped a lot.

ok my period came at day 45 .. pain is gone for now .. am thinking it will return next luteal phase .. bought calcium with magnesium to see if it will help at all

ok day 5 of a period that was 20 days late .. and am wracked with body aches.. think I have a cold on top of it all and am somewhat sore from exercising on saturday ,, all combined makes me feel like im dying .. geeze this is just horrible.. get a blood test on wed morning,, doc is looking for elevated FSH (folical stimulating hormone) this happens in peri when the body is trying to dump all its eggs .. think I'll take a pain killer ,, this *****