Hey Ladies:

I've noticed in past months about mid cycle, if you can call it mid, I don't know mid cycle anymore. Anywho, I get strange speed like feeling, I can only describe it as feeling like I'm on speed, my body wants to keep moving even when I'm sitting and my brain feels like it in overdrive. It last usually a few hours to all day. I"m curious does anyone else feel like this? Can anyone explain which hormone is causing it.

I'm on progesterone cream daily, which helps so much with my PMS stuff. If anyone has any answers I would sure like to hear them.

Have a fabulous day everyone and thanks
Patty

I went through that so badly, Patty!

My thoughts would race, always some stupid song playing in my head!

Also, I felt that I was breathing shallowly and quickly, always tense and anxious.

Just an awful feeling - my heart goes out to you. Oh, and this DOES get better (or it has for me) in post-menopause. What a relief to not always have crapola flying through my brain!

JJ

Patty,
Have you had your thyroid checked? I had this too so badly when all this mess began and it nearly drove me nuts. I felt I had to run, run, run, but did not know where to go!!! It sounds like pretty bad anxiety. Mine was caused in part by having too much thyroid hormone. (I got overmedicated on my thyroid med). Since high E in relation to P binds the thyroid hormone and can cause hypo symptoms early on in peri, when E drops closer to meno or we have more P, our thyroid hormone can increase. So, have all your thyroid levels checked. I just hate that feeling and I hope you can figure it out soon.

I still have those songs in my head! I do hope that goes away.

hugs, mood_swinger

YES !! Sometimes during my cycle I have this too.Sometimes at night I wake up to sings playing in my head it's ridiculous.I also get that speedy, jittery feeling and I don't like it either.I know it's my hormones though.Hope this helps with the reassurance.

Patty,

Yes! You put that really well.

I could not describe it! I used to write a lot and am just getting back to it. So bear with me if I sound vague.
I said, It was like my body felt sharp, but made of squishy stuff, that was how I tried to describe it, plus I had that music thing, too,
although I sort of thought I was dreaming, I would get up and write down the song. And it would still be in my head.

I back what the Ladies are saying, it DOES get better.

Hugs,
Mary Beth

Patty I didn't have a period in May and felt like that!
I just couldn't set still!
I would push myself nonstopped!
It wasn't a bad feeling not like I had extra energy>just different hard to explain!
Got a period in June and back to feeling like slug!

Snowmoon and Patty -

Sorry you feel like a slug, SnowMoon. It will get better.....

Patty - I remember that - A few people here said if only you could bottle the energy!
I was writing books and working and had a spotless house and was headed to Washington over a Funding for Health
issues thing, and sometimes anxious a little, but never truly tired.
That was a few years back. I never felt exhausted either. It was great! mid forties and felt 25. Back when I was still getting periods.
Now I'm 49, it's been a year as of this fall with only one "maybe" period in the last year.
Getting a period - the last one wiped me out SO bad for months.
I didn't mind the cramps and dizzy or head buzzing, but that fatigue was the worst. Slug is right on.

I have been fine energy wise since periods stopped, except for during the moving from Countryside home on the Lake
to SuperUrban concrete Highrise last Fall - and now there is all the fumes and smells and noise.
It was super nice when me moved here, but went downhill fast with the economy!
We await word on our new chapter. Just heard we *might hear tomorrow.

Not hijacking thread, these things also contribute to fatigue as does diet.
We all know stress and diet too.

Mary Beth

Wired but tired sweets!! yes mood swinger is right........get your thyroid checked. Same, same for me........too much thyroxine.

My mood swings, agitation, depersonalisation, speedy thoughts and all that was so severe, I was dx Bipolar II rapid cycling and admitted into my favourite psych unit! Since being dx peri, the Bipolar dx has been retracted. Yep, it can be debilitating......

You are not alone, and as you know it does pass, or it is in flux.......

I have noticed a slight difference since starting the pill and my TSH is back in range......

Take care of you, babe

Don't know if this is the same as what you're talking about but...

Lately I've had this feeling like I'm in a rush. Not anxiety really -- I'm well acquainted with THAT too. But more like when you have a day when you have lots to do and not a lot of time, like when you're getting things together for a party. You feel like you need to move quickly and think quickly to get everything done. Except that in reality I'm not that busy, and there's no reason for me to feel like that. I have to consciously talk myself down from it, like "Slow down. You don't need to be in that big a hurry." It doesn't scare me like panic/anzxiety does; it's just weird.

And I have the songs in my head too. EVERY morning for as long as I can remember (so I can't blame this one on peri) I've woken up with a song in my head. Sometimes it will go away by lunch. But usually another one will take its place. I've even gone to bed with a song, and awakened the next morning with the same song! That tells me that it's been in my head all night. Gives me one of those "am I losing it?" moments. I used to think it was a good thing -- y'know..."Start every day with a song in your heart." But I read recently that it can be a sign of mental illness in extreme cases -- bipolar disorder or OCD. Yep, my health anxiety needs to hear that. Jeez...

So did I and still do at times...like today...along with the shaking! I am post so I don't get why I still have this happen.

JJ...do you still have this happen still sometimes even though you are post? Or has it gone away altogether? Anyone else post still dealing with it?
Robin

That song thing happens to me all the time. And it's usually a song I don't even like!!

I once had the song "Pretty Woman" (the good Roy Orbison version, not the crappy Van Halen one) running through my head. I turned on the radio to get it out, maybe replace it with something else. I made the mistake of putting on an oldies station. Within five minutes, guess which song came on? Yep..."Pretty Woman." And that's not the only time that's happened.

Midway in the journey of my life I found myself in a dark woods, for the straight way was lost. Dante


Snowmoon this is from Dante? You are so literate! - is this from the Inferno?

what an appropriate and beautiful quote - SORRY TO HIGH JACK THIS THREAD

ps i LIVE DAILY WITH THIS CONDITION YOU ALL DESCRIBE AND I CALL IT THE JITTERS - IT IS SO UNCOMFORTABLE

Surreallife........Im 2 yrs post and still get this........I had no problems with anything til I was 10 months post...........valerie

I am going through this now. I fear I am manic or something. My mind races of all that there is to do but yet a sense of being overwhelmed. My body feels hyper and like I can't relax. I hate this feeling. I think slug is better. I feel compulsive too which makes me think it is a form of anxiety and I missed a period this month and everytime I do the anxiety kicks in. Sometimes it is fearful as if your body is going and what if you do something stupid....you all know what I mean?