I am in year 4 of this nightmare!!!!!! Of course anxiety being the worse of all. I recently noticed that at about day 14 of my cycle the anxiety and hot flashes are at their worst. During my period and the two weeks after I seem to be fine. But as so as I hit mid cycle things really take a change. I take Activilla a low dose HRT that was helping with this but does not seem to work the 2nd half of my cycle. I know that hormones go up and down but during this period something is definitely out of order.

I WISH THERE WAS A SHOT THAT I COULD TAKE TO MAKE THIS ALL GO AWAY!!!!!!!!! I FEEL LIKE I AM NOT LIVING!!! ALL I DO IS WORRY, and CRY.

I NEED SO ENCOURAGING WORDS RIGHT ABOUT NOW.

BLESSING TO ALL YOU STRONG WOMEN!!!

Angel 1

I'm with you, sis. My body does the same thing. Although I'm currently having anxiety all the time and crying spells every day, they REALLY get bad during the last two weeks of my cycle. Today really stunk because I tried a new med for my anxiety that made it ten times worse. I hate my body!!

Anyway, hang in there with us. ((((((((((((((angel 1)))))))))))))))

Hi Angel, I am having the same problem! In fact, I am finding it very difficult to stay asleep. I am getting so hyped up around mid cycle with this weird wired feeling and anxiety. I cannot predict anything anymore. Just when my period is over and tha horrible crashing sick fatigue leaves I start to rebound a bit and then I get a horrible pain in my side from ovulation (if I am even still ovulating) then comes the wired creepy anxiety feeling. I ended up taking childrens liquid Benedryl to go to sleep. That really works for me. Before all of this hormone hell, I could count on my body doing certain things at certain times of the month. All very controllable and basic. The worst would have been a little bit of PMS and some mild cramping. Crap, now it's all out war in my body. It's like all the signals are crossed and it fires off whenever with no forwarnings. I am left feeling out of control, off balance, mentally weak, physically drained and wanting to cut myself off from the world. It really ticks me off when I am minding my own business and I am doing something productive like working on a creative relaxing project and I go to the craft store for supplies and BAM!!!!!! I get this sheer panic out of the blue. My head spins and I start feeling like I am out of my body. I don't feel real. My depth perception goes haywire and I fear I cannot even drive home. Then I get the shakes and feel nauseous. Its just a cascade of symptoms gone wild. I always think I am having a stroke or heart attack. I am SICK SICK SICK of this!!!!!!!!! Your not alone........Debra

I get this too, not every month, but usually... I now know it has to do w/ovulation; I get it about 1 - 2 days prior to ovulation, during ovulation, then it starts to decline. Estrogen and another hormone (LH) increases at this time, and after ovulation is when progesterone should be increasing. I personally think it is the "high" estrogen at the time of ovulation that creates this...

Now I try to take steps prior to ovulation to handle this, in others words try to prepare.... 1) Really watching what I eat (making sure I eat lots of veggies and stuff) 2) refrain from alcohol (sense that just makes so much worse) 3) drinks lots of water 4) drinks lots of herbal teas chamomile & valerian root. 5) take valerian root at night 6) lots of walking...

This steps does not always get rid of it, but it does seem to lessen the severity. Oh yea, and watch how much coffee I drink....

I think it just helped me to know I was not NUTS, and was actually able to put a so-called rhyme and reason to my symptoms...

I'm supplementing with hrt during peri too. And I find some reemergence of symptoms midcycle when my own e level drops with ovulation (also when P is at its hightest. Beginning of my cycle is also the best (but is also when my own e is higher than what comes from supplmental hrt)and own P is lowest. Only options are to add more E or swithch to bcp to overide the ovarian hormonal fluctuations. That is what has been suggested by my docs. Best of luck, JZZ