I am so confused at what I can take and I think I have taken so much stuff. I have so may allergies and some of things that I have taken may not agree with my body. So I took some mylanta and my stomach feels a little better. I took some vitamin B6 and C together and think that could have caused the upset stomach along with the infection. Thanks Carol & Jeanne for your response to me.

I am very cautious with meds and even vitamin supplements  now.

On another note, Ruth and a couple others mentioned mouth and throat blisters.  I actually had these quite severely before I started having the neurological problems, which resulted in some one sided facial and tongue paralysis.  No doctor was able to diagnose them, did anybody's physician ever explain to them what the cause of the blisters was?  I always wondered if it could be some form of shingles.

I've had kinda similar stuff all my life, cyclical with my periods. Mostly the oral blisters--sometimes one (mostly) but during periods of high stress, thousands in my whole mouth/throat/nose. Yeah, nice.

The ENT I finally went to for them said it was a herpes virus, probably from when I had chicken pox as a child (it's a herpes family virus). Herpes tends to take up residence along our nerves and remain there. This, later in life, can turn up as an outbreak of shingles. It can also, she said, affect the facial nerves. My right eye area is prone to this, and during that same stressful year, I couldn't touch my right eye without triggering an excruitiating electric nerve flash. I also have huge pads of scar tissue where wearing braces as a teenager kept two huge ulcers inflamed for the entire 3 years I wore them (although my complaints of pain were brushed off as a "bad attitude" ) so physical trauma is another potent stressor, as is sun exposure.

Most of these went away when the stressors did. It comes back rarely (often, now, it is triggered by some thermal stress, like sitting by an open car window on a cool day).

The good news is that the hormonal stability of menopause (and especially post-hyst, being on steady hrt) seems to have greatly reduced the incidence. YMMV, of course, but it's something good that might come out of all this hormonal upheaval.

The bottom line, however, is that while I can't answer for what's going on with  your specific case, the reasoning you are looking at is physiologically plausible.

Hugs,Liz51

hugs , jeanne:)

I've spoken about it many times in the past, referring to it as my "electrical shock impulses." This happened to me while I was in the throes of PERI-MENOPAUSE -- the very WORST part of this entire process while our periods are becoming fewer and far between, only to eventually stop completely (your life should improve once your periods are gone for about a year).  For the most part, it's gone now (fingers crossed.. the minute I say something is okay.. it's back again - case in point, I said just Saturday that I hadn't had swelling in my bad leg/foot for two weeks... it returned Sunday ).  It felt like electrical impulses in my head.... a buzzing sensation.  Similar to the pictures we get of someone sticking their finger in a live socket and the body vibrating with a Buzzzzzzzz'ing. It can be very frightening, but I was convinced that it was one of the *strange* (and there are MANY strange and, yes, inexplicable, things you'll experience during menopause - thank you, mom, for telling me this before it all started) for which hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or any other drugs, herbs or vitamins will do nothing at all.

Your body is going through many "changes".. that's exactly why they call it the "change."  Our bodies are governed by hormones, not just estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, but NUMEROUS hormones -- all of which become totally whacked out during menopause.  Everything in our bodies is connected - nerve endings, arteries, veins, hormones -- and it's not unusual to feel what some describe as "electrical impulses" in their bodies. Our bodies arehighly complex mechanisms, but not quite as fragile as some would have us believe.