I seem to get this every month...headachey, flu like symptoms, with nausea, woozy head and feel sick all over for a week or so right after my period....

does anyone else get this?

Lisa

Yes, I used to get this a lot...shivery,aching, sore skin too. Not quite so often now.

Funny you mention it, but I'm on Day 8 of my cycle and feel like I have the flu (nausea, headache, body aches). I all of the above simultaneously occasionally, but I don't associate it with any particular day of the cycle.

I also sunk into a depression today. I wasn't consciously aware of it, then suddenly I started crying (when I could not find where my husband put an ingredient that I needed for cooking--got to get take-out and stop cooking!).

Anyway, I guess this flu/depression thing is just another meno symptom.

I'm blown away by how nasty this "thing" (menopause) is. Some women claim they had as much trouble with adolescence (spelling?), but I certainly didn't. It was totally mild in comparison.

Hi Lisa,

It's interesting that you just posted about feeling flu like and nauseated. I just posted on another thread about something that happened to me this morning. I have been spotting for two days now when all of a sudden this morning when I got up I got a terrible wave of nausea that made me feel as if I was going to faint. I had to lay down for about an hour or so before I felt well enough to get up again. I got cramps and then a regular period actually started - just that suddenly. This is so strange. I also get the achy feeling kind of like the flu but mine is usually during my period. This whole peri stuff is too much sometimes.

Maeflower

thanks you guys..yeah today I feel headachy, have that tingly sensation on my scalp and just feel nauseus and yucky..don't feel achy, but gross, like sick . i have to go to work..last 10 days of school..my head is swimming.....

yuch! glad to know it related to hormones..I always get this way for about a week AFTER my period..then feel better again until right before my period..so weird..i wonder what hormone i'm lacking during htis time, orhave too much of?

Lisa

Lisa,

I used to get this sick/achy/nausea/headache/diarrhea thing when my period first started. My doc told me I could help it by taking an Advil a day for the 2 days before the period began. It sounds bizarre, but it WORKED.

Of course, this is when my cycles were "regular." Once they got really crazy during peri, I never knew when I'd be starting!


Jacquie

Hi Lisa and All,

Yes, I get the nausea on around the eighth day where my period used to be!
I haven't had a period for 7 months but still get PMS as though I am going to have one - so bizarre! The nausea is a new one but is now showing-up.

What NEXT!!!

Oh my goodness!!!! (this is my first post here) this is exactly how I have been for 1 year and a half. and the bloating or diarrhea thing... about a week or 8 days or so after the period. I am so glad to know I am not alone. I really thought this was a PMS symptom, but mine for awhile have been after my period.

the reason I am here today is the real bad depression. I need to know I am not alone. I just don't want to go on. I've had 4 UTIs this summer and am sick of them. I have an appt with a urologist in a week or so but my meds eval isn't until Oct. 12.... don't know if I can wait that long.

Glad to know I am not alone. I see so many things posts mimicking how I feel. thank you all.