Can anyone relate to feeling downright ill? I mean to where you can NOT fuction?
Would love for someone to say they had this and once the bleeding stops (post) things got better!

Just getting over another period, never sure when the meno sickness will strike. Before-doing or after. This time it was toward the end.
Still spotting and just feel ill, of course it’s not a real flu just a sickness that comes alone with this crap!

Sometime I don’t realize how bad I feel until I’m with someone normal.

OMG the body aches has been horrible, night sweat-hot flashes-headache!
Anxiety> it had been on vacation for awhile.
But last night so shaky and weak thought I was dying!
Haven’t slept in a week so I took a atvian and slept 12 hours, only woke up twice the whole night.
Wish I could say I felt better but in fact I DON”T!

I’m 52 and worn out>>>need this crap to stop!

Awwww, you poor thing, I can soo relate. I had a week like this before my period, sans insomnia, I never myself be sleep deprived, so I take xanax.
otherwise, the achiness, the tension, the anxiety, moodiness, and overwhelming fatigue, all fit the desctription.
I had such a bad day at work, yesterday, day 1 of my period: brain fog, dizziness, falling on my face, all day.
Today, I woke up like new person, went swimming, achiness is gone, and I feel calmer and have clear mind too.
This is all good, until day 4-5 of my cycle, when anxiety will start to raise its ugly head again.
I am 52, and soo fed up with this rollercoster, when i feel like this, I think "hormones", when it gets better, I don't ! ;
it is amazing how hormones impact everything, from physical pain (flu like) to mental clarity, I wish I knew when this is going to end, for me it goes in phases, once it gets all kinda better, wham, and i am back to doom/gloom, and pain again.GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Warm wishes and hugs.
I.

Snowmoon56,
"Sometime I don’t realize how bad I feel until I’m with someone normal."
Couldn't have said that better. Normal to me is some symptom or other every day. When I do go out of the house I find it hard to pay attention to a conversation or anything else I realize somethings not right with me. I'm 52 also and feel the same way...worn out and tired of it all, been going on too many years.
Robin

Iradan I get like that two, first couple days of my period> horrible, 3th or 4th day I wake up and amazed how wonderful I feel them bam the last few days back to crap-land!
Still spotting which could last for days



Been 10 years for me so I know how you feel! 52 seems to be a magic age for this crappo! Sometime I feel toooooooooo worn out to recover!

I hear you, it is been 7 years for me, with major problem, and perhaps another 7 with minor, so almost 15, LOL.
I was hoping 52 should be the end, but no, does not look like it. Every time I think, this is it, last period, it continues.
I know what you mean, sometimes I wonder if I ever be the same, nope, I doubt it.
As for being too worn out, perhaps you are right, we are not getting younger, after all, regardless of menopause.
I think some symptoms are also wear and tear, hormones just make it all really crappy.

I.

Iradan and Snowmoon,

Count me in. I just stopped the BHRT due to breast issues and I have felt in the last few weeks that I am started all the crap all over again. Stopping the BHRT triggered an ovulation and now I am feeling the onset of a period...the fullness, pressure in my head comes and goes and insomnia is rearing it's
ugly head... my naturopath gave me MACA to try.

I don't mean to discourage all you ladies, like Snowmoon and Iradan I have experienced good days and this is what gives me hope. I too have had a bad week.

I have been at this since I was 46 and I am now 51. So sick of all this...

Plumeria

Yeah, well, wouldn't it be great if it really WAS all over once you're "post". But it aint necessarily so. Been thru the 2 years of hell with heavy bleeding, the whole shooting match. Prayed for it all to be over. Then had a full year of bliss - NO periods, no more disgusting mopping up of floods of blood, pain and cramps etc etc and smugly thought it was all over. Even had a 12 months post celebration. (insert hollow laugh here).

Then out of the blue had an unexpected period after 13 months. Seems my "lining is too thick" (how the heck would you know?!) Now I'm looking down the barrel of biopsies, D&C, possible cancer, yada yada yada......

When I was bleeding buckets of blood and clots, getting anaemic, unable to live a normal life, for months and months, the docs just said "oh it's pretty normal, here take this pill, will slow the bleeding......never mind, it will all be over soon enough..." and other platitudes. Now I get a little light bleed, and the docs are falling over themselves, words like "urgent" and "cancer" and "biopsy" dripping from their lips!

Sorry to be a wet blanket ladies, but really, I am SO SICK of this STUPID business.....

This sounds almost like my last period! I was SO wiped out and spent mostly the whole weekend laying on the couch, feeling so sick too. My period started off pretty heavy...the first time in a couple years. Once it got super light after a couple days, I started 'coming out of it'. A few years or so ago at work, they send out a symptom list for flu...what to look for if you need to stay home. I thought, this is almost monthly for me, how would I know the difference!

I have to admit, I'm a little nervous that this could go on Much longer that I would hope (I'm only a couple years into it), but the optimist in me (its still there sometimes) is hoping I'll at least get things to where they are super manageable.

Snowy ((((((((Hugs)))))))) I can totally relate. I look at people all the time and think "my gosh they feel normal, whats that like"??? At 55 I thought the crap was behind me but its reared its ugly head with nightsweats, flashes, mood swings, crying, and yes just a general not feel good condition. Truly like a flu that wont leave. My mouth even burns again..this is what I had in peri and I'm 2 years post now. I believe its another dip in hoprmones and possibly that I have just a pinch of estrogen left...if any ??? I have palps again, worse than ever, and the shakiness too Snowy. Does the bus ever stop, time to get off now!!! I hate menopause, truly hate it. Its taken almost 10 years from me...BUT I wont give in nor give up...there is a light and we gotta hang in there. Today I'm heading to the Apple Blossom Parade with my grandgirls. I'll look around at everyone and wonder what its like to feel good. It takes all my energy to go to this, but I love the girls and the delight in their faces will give me that extra boost I need.

Big Hugs Snowy and to all the rest of the sisters who are hanging on, hangin in, but ready for the crap to end. Dont give up friends

Much Love

Fin

Girls I still feel horrible.
Last year I had 6 periods and now they are back every 3 weeks.
Plus I hurt soooooooo bad!
Some days it's my shoulder or my arm lately it has been my left leg.

Went to my doctor this morning for left leg pain. I know I hurt my ankle a couple of weeks ago but now the whole leg hurts.
Calf-thigh etc.
My anxiety has been rearing it's ugly head over this so I was worrying about a blood clot.
Of course I wasn't going to bring that up right way. In stead the doctor did and send me to the hospital stat for a ultrasound.
Scare the crap out of me!
The anxiety today has now left me T-I-R-I-E-D!
Now I feel hot all over> dizzy!
Praying for a break SOON!