Hi there everyone! So glad to have found all of you!
This is my first time here and am looking forward to getting feed back, chatting and sharing experiences good and bad with you!
Im determined now that I am going through PERIMENOPAUSE!
My main concern is the dizziness and just not feeling well or like myself at all! This has been going on for about 3 years now...I should mention Im 42
Is there anything at all that I can take or do to make these symptoms go AWAY!
HELP please..............

I am almost 42 myself and know how you feel. I get the dizzies sometimes too, and I have other peri symptoms too. Most of the time I feel like there is something really physically wrong with me, that it just feels too terrible to just be peri. But, that's all I have to go on right now as all tests come back "normal". I don't have any advice as to how to make it stop, but wanted you to know I know how you feel and welcome.

Thank you Mainemom!
Im glad Im here.... OH I have lots of the symptoms on the list lol
Dizziness seems to be the most frustrating! Im just wondering if Estrogen or something would help...I was reading someones post saying that once they started takin it the dizziness went away! I just feel that I can cope any longer....my doc is sending me here and there for testing and keeps telling me that IM NOT menopausol and until today reading all of these posts etc and symptoms IM 100% sure that this is what it is....I was going crazy and thinking that all these docs were makin me crazy by telling me nothing was wrong when I KNOW there is!
Thanks for being here....I will be here for the duration....feels good to know that im not alone

Hi ladies !!
Glad your here, you have definetly come to the right place.I am 32 and started having hot flashes and panic about 2 years ago and had no clue what they were or the journey of hell I was fixing to embark upon.I had my tubes tied when I was 23 and I know that is what sent me into early peri. i started noticing period irregularities in early october it was about january that all hell broke loose with all the scary mental symptoms and terrible anxiety, insomnia and nite sweats.I have gotten a full clean bill of health along with "normal" hormone lab values. I don't care what those test say..I AM IN PERI HELL, besides with all the flucuations of hormones it is going to be a long while till the test actually show something.Keep coming here and educating yourself.I hope you find peace of mind from the ladies here, I sure do.Power surge has been a God send.

here is what my cycles have been like since last november, I keep track of them at http://www.cyclespage.com it's a great sight it's free and also predicts ovulation time which can either be a bear for some or when others feel their best.

Cycle length
July 9, 2009 29 days Aug 6, 2009

June 6, 2009 33 days July 8, 2009

May 21, 2009 16 days June 5, 2009

May 3, 2009 18 days May 20, 2009

April 5, 2009 28 days May 2, 2009

Feb 28, 2009 36 days April 4, 2009

Feb 1, 2009 27 days Feb 27, 2009

Jan 1, 2009 31 days Jan 31, 2009

Nov 25, 2008 37 days Dec 31, 2008

Nikki,
It is funny that you have said that! I had my tubes tied 8 years ago and since then I havent felt right...my periods have been really missed up like dont get one for 3 or 4 mnths and do got it and i have it for almost 2 weeks and with such pain....legs ache, clotting etc etc. I have gone to many docs and had so many tests and one minute it comes back saying that Im in peri and then the next month normal! I dont get it....I had surgery last July and had a Dand C done to try to correct my periods and while in there they found a cyst on my falopian tube removing it and also some of my tube. Since then my periods were fine until January...and now again they come when they want....my symptoms are getting worse with dizziness and sweating my worse complain i guess...cause i just dont feel myself! Im taking this list of 35 symptoms into my doc on thursday and going to check off everything that I have experienced and say PLEASE give me something....I feel that I cant cope from day to day as I get anxious over feeling dizzy, foggy and just not myself...i feel that I need to be by something to grab ahold of all the time.
How do I go about asking thedoc to put me on something! I just want rid of the dizzy feeling and have a clear head once again....
Thanks you guys for chatting it is helping knowing that Im not alone

well, it really depends on the Doc.During peri our hormones flucuate so wildly that most Docs wont prescribe hormones, because of the constant ups and downs.However their are women who take birth controll pills to help even out their ride.I tried 3 or 4 different ones and I just couldn't handle the symptoms. lots of women on here take xanax and AD's to help them and they swear by them.I myself don't take anything.I hate meds and am super sensitive to everything.I am trying to have faith in my body and let it do it's thing.I may change my mind though if this ride takes another 5 years !!

Nikki...
Well I am trying to cope....but serously it the dizziness that is just totally playing a tole on my body and mind! I cant stand it...Not sure if the doc will do anything or not....my periods I guess i can deal with and the pains and the not knowing...I am having a hard time working and functioning daily...just so tired and down in the dumps...I guess we will see on Thursday when i see my family doc...I have just heard so many stories about women going through Peri that they are being put on antidepressants etc....meanwhile the real problem isnt being treated! It may help with the anxiety that Im geting from being frustrated and dizzy all the time but I dont think it waill help with the actual symptoms!
Just totally frustrated

I had my tubes tied 16 years ago and can't say my periods were ever a problem. In my 40's my periods got really heavy (flooding, clotting). Turned 50 and then came the anxiety and panic attacks. Also, in my middle 40's I was getting dizzy, foggy thinking, unbalanced feeling, anxiety. Thought for sure it was hormones, went to a hormone Dr. got some testosterone pellets, did that a few times but didn't notice anything particularly different. Finally, due a fluke I was considering some cosmetic lipo (backed out of that one, lol) anyways they took bloodwork and come to find out I was anemic (probably from all the heavy periods'). So, I guess you might want to rule that out as many of the symptoms of anemia mimic some of the hormone stuff. Good luck.

I'm one of those who chose an AD (3rd try but this one seems to be working, fingers crossed) and a little xanax. I also was anti med, just afraid to get stuck on the merry go round of which med is gonna work game? It can be such a difficult time finding the right combo and that can get discouraging as well as add to the emotional upheaval going on and coming off these meds can be, add that to the hormonal junk and you got have a cocktail you don't want. But, sometimes when you just need some quality of life you do what you have to do. Sort of like decided on natural childbirth no drugs and then actually getting into the thick of it and realizing all that matters is that you get a healthy baby and you don't need to be in pain to get that.

Oh, yah, I'm on the ad route too. I too am a pill phobic and super sensative to everything, but stuff was just so bad a few weeks ago I decided to try. This is my 3rd week on Zoloft (12.5) going up to 25 next week. Not sure if it's helping or not. Probably too soon to tell.

I started 10mg lexapro for one week, on my second week of 20mg lexapro. Yesterday wasn't a bad day actually took care of business, ran errands, did dishes, grocery shopped and cooked dinner, this coming from someone who has laid in bed for the last 2 weeks with panic/anxiety/depression. Who knows if it's the AD's or my hormones giving me a break. I still have a little anxiety breakthrough but not too bad I take .75 of xanax once or twice a day as needed. At least I'm not a weepy mess for the time being, so I am enjoying the break (as is my family). I'll take what I can get an hope for a lasting improvement.