I am thankful to have this site and the opportunity to "throw it out there' and get support. I am here doing that again. I am in the throes of peri - and have had a variety of symptoms - esp this past year+ - irregular periods, headaches, nausea, lightheadness, etc etc etc. But now, something "new" ... the last few days my stomach is feeling SO sick - more than the "floating nausea" as I normally have - this is very "sick feeling" and I feel discomfort in my stomach - which I've never had when Ive been nauseous due to peri. A year ago i was tested with colonoscopy and endoscopy and a ton of blood tests - all normal, thankfully. Don't have any reflux that I'm aware of. But, I now have this BIG stomach discomfort and this feeling of "ick" ... my muscles hurt too - that does happen now and again, but it seems way worse now too - in my legs, down the insides of my arms and in my back. I am feeling so sick and tired of feeling sick and tired! Prior to peri I was so healthy and so upbeat and so "ok" with life. I want my life back. This has been one rough ride this past almost 2 years!

Has anyone had this stomach stuff - no vomitng, no reflux, etc.. just discomfort and a very pronounced sick feeling with accompnaying muscle pain? I need some help here. Thanks in advance. Kathleen

help any advice, i have been in sweats since yesterday morning,, my breasts ar so sore and im not even due until 2 weeks for my period,.Im 39.. and i am shaking, i had the worst day, I lost my new job because i called in sunday i was too exhausted to work,, from night sweats.
I have anothet job interview thurs and friday but i am so bloated and this migrane is not stopping,. I have never had these symptoms until now without a period. I am taking soy and supplements over the counter.

the worst part is the feeling of losing myself, i feel old, alomost as though i am on drugs.. i am confused and certain body parts are feeling enormous.Can anyone suggest how to go about this with a dr. listen i have gass every minute,. i am so tired from traeting symptoms...

I have had both muscle pain and nausea, although for me, the muscle pain is most prominent. The nausea seems to hit occasionally and I have not really connected that to the muscle pain. I have pain in my rib cage, upper back, chest, back of thighs, sometimes hips/butt, upper arms, under arm, etc., that just seemed to go from one area to the next and now it just sits in all these places. It's been a part of my life for the past year and a half and the docs can find nothing definitively wrong. So I hope it is only hormones, although I just find that so hard to believe....maybe because it seems so intense intense and limits my physical activity. I keep wondering when you stop seeing doctors and thinking that you have something horrible when it just doesn't seem like it would be a hormonal issue. So while I share your pain, I wish that I was convinced that it is due to hormones.

Pixiegirl, I hear you, I do hear you and I so empathize! The muscle pains are just unreal for me at times. As you put it - they move from one place to another and other times, every area seems impacted to one degree or another. I never thought I'd want the nausea back - I'll take it back over this really sick feeling in my stomach. It's so weird - this is strong and predominant - whereas my nausea (which I've had for almost a year now) is not as severe as a rule - it's more of a low grade type nausea that only "peaks" occassionally. This "new" stomach stuff is the pits for me!
I too find myself tyring to convince myself it is all hormonally related/generated - but it does seem like a LOT! That said, I do know everything in our bodies is responsive to hormones and impacted by them. It's during peri when things are so out of whack (at least for me!) that everything seems like it's beyond belief! I haven't found anything to help the muscle issues- I take magnesium and drink a lot of water and walk 20 minutes a day - all things that I know are good for me and have been recommended by others for muscle issues - I see no impact from them, but I continue them anyway since I know they can't hurt. Does anyone have any other suggestions on the muscle isses? Aspirin, ibuprophen, etc- no impact. Sometimes I rub tiger balm and it helps - but not always. Getting ready to try my beloved hot water bottle and hope for the best!
Sometimes I feel SO old - and I just will turn 50 in 10 days! In the last year+, I truly feel like I have aged 10 years. I'm so tired of this - one thing after another after another. And the irony - I don't like to complain and yet, here I am doing just that. I'm weary and exasperated at the seeming unrelentlessness of this. I hope it will end and that relief is in sight. I want my life back or something similar to where I'm not always feeling things that make me wonder "what do I REALLY have? Thanks again, Kathleen

Kathleent,
The nausea I feel reminds me of when I was pregnant and had morning sickness. You sound like you have a deeper stomach pain. Do you suffer from anxiety by any chance? that can also cause ths type of feeling. It can give me a stomach ache and make me feel like my stomach is tied up in knots, I can't eat, etc. If it persists, do get it checked out, just to be on the safe side.

I have had reflux lately, although at first the symptoms were not typical, (now they are) but my doctor said not everyones was 'textbook' so perhaps other digestive problems are in fact linked. Also, I have had bouts of muscle and joint pain and tiredness, even thought it may be fibromyalgia it was so painful. It is now improving, but I did stumble on some information about joint and muscle pain which said that in tests on women rather a large number of them also had digestive problems, and that these could become systemic. I took that to mean it can affect other areas like muscles and joints. I still think though that all these symptoms are connected to hormones. My right hand is aching as I type this, although it comes and goes and isn't as bad as it was. I also had the feeling sometimes that someone was digging pins in me. I'm starting to feel a real hypochondriac.

When I am down this site just picks me up because I know that someone out there is has this pitiful thing going on with them too!!! Maybe I am not going crazy, right now my symptoms are the tired and aching muscles. I can barely get out of bed in the morning. My side also hurts, has anyone had this, it is better this week, but I dont want to go to the doctor for this too, i know i will get the look and everyone will think i am a hypocondriac. I had the naseau feeling in the morning last year that lasted for about 3 months but finally let up, I also have reflux and since that has been medicated it has slacked off, but you know i stopped taking the nexium thinking things were better and within 4 days i was burning in the chest again. It doesnt help that i have gained back the 3o pounds i lost last year when the reflux was at its worst, i just dont have the energy to exercise. Thanks for listening.

Neucindy- I have had the pain in my side .. had all the tests - all normal. I realize now (in retrospect) that mine was peri related... of course my dr at the time didn't pick up on any of it - even when I was saying I was having hot flashes, low libido, etc..... certainly get it checked out if it persists and it becomes difficult for you -but I certainly believe mine was muscle related. I am right there with you on the muscle aches and fatigue- after work each day (thankfully, I have a job I LOVE) ... I just crash more often than not. I've slept more than 14 hours a day and still - fatigue. Take good care and let's remind each other - these things too will pass! Kathleen

Hi Kathleen

I get awful stomach problems since peri - when I eat I get yukky palpitations and also some reflux - sometimes retrostrenal pain too - esp if I take a deep breath. My heart beats so slow & irregular after I eat I sometimes feel like I am going to pass out - Drs do NOTHING - they wont say it is hormonal - they dont know - so I put it down to hormones cos it makes me feel better - and less scared of it.

I get generalised aches and pains I never had before peri - and seem to have way more than 34 symptoms of menopause!!!

I echo your feelings - I feel as if I have aged 10 years in one year - certainly learnt alot about my body and about me. I want my life back too - peri is really wearing me down - it take so much mental courage to get through each day.....sigh

I love being able to vent on PS - it really helps knowing that people are always there to understand even the freakiest symptom I can come up with!!!

Mele

Yes, Mele, I agree- it's been a struggle at times, esp when I've always been SO incredibly and thankfully healthy all of my life - so I think all the stuff I've experienced and continue to experience during permi has hit me like a ton of bricks. I am truly stunned! One thing after another - all that no doctor has been able or willing to say "yep, hormones" ... instead it's "that's not possible" or "I don't know".
My new doctor has me on a very very restrictive bland diet (no dairy, no wheat, no nightshade veggies, no citrus, no eggs, etc etc etc) - trying to see if my nausea is food allergy/related. I've had nausea for over a year now -almost everyday for most of days when I am nauseaous! ick! And now, the irony is that since starting the diet a week ago ... I am having stomach pains and sensations I've NEVER had before - I would think the blandness of the diet would make that far less likely esp when I didn't have any of these symptoms/sensations before the diet!!! But then I wonder if it's somehow related to my other muscle aches and strange tingling sensations in other parts of my body. Who knows? Sometimes I worry about it all and imagine all kinds of terrible things going on in my body ---- missed diagnosis, etc etc etc. But, I try and breathe and do what I can do to live and trust.

I repeat - I feel like I've aged 10 years!!! But I can also say I'm learning to let go and have greater empathy.
Thanks for replying ... we are all in this together, aren't we? Kathleen

I too feel so old!!!! I am only 44, my aunt keeps telling me it will get better, but I too think about missed diagnosis, do I tell the doctor enough? is it me not being clear enough to the doctor? I keep misjudging myself.
I have a stressful job, (teacher) but I thank god for it everyday because if I had to stay home and dwell on this crap everyday I would loose my mind. I dread summer because I have too much free time in which to think and I am constantly convincing myself that I have a dreadful disease. I am just coming out of the worst allergy season ever. I had a horribe sinus infection that no medicine would even touch, i had THREE, YES THREE head CTS, and the first one showed infection, 2nd one showed slight swelling, last one where headaches were so bad I couldnt see straight was crystal clear, determined it was tension headache and now I take muscle relaxer, just more medicine to add my bucket of drugs, I am so miserable with all of this, I just hope and pray that things get better, my husband is very unsympathetic because he thinks i blow everything out of proportion, I can make myself absolutely sick, and have a major panic attack. I never was like this, ever, ever before. I know something has to be going on.
Thanks for listening!!!!

I can relate to everything everyone here is saying. I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired. I never had allergies before peri. Now, it seems to be a chronic problem. Indigestion is becoming the new norm. I have the random spontaneous nausea, especially when the migraines hit. I think I posted on another thread about the muscle pain...I also get muscle pain that seems to jump around from place to place. I thought about seeing rheumatologist to check for fibromyalgia. Also, my neck always seems to hurt these days. I am just so sick of going from dr to dr and every test is always negative. Not that I am saying I am unhappy about negative results but I am just tired of feeling like this. I have wondered whether I am becoming a hypochondriac.

Like many of the others, I went from a vibrant, healthy, happy, loving life woman; to feeling 100 years old- depressed-hating life-miserable-every symptom in the book-nut case.

One thing I have noticed though, is some of the symptoms do fade/disappear. Some come back and some haven't (yet). I have also noticed that sometimes one goes (or I just get used to living with it) and another takes it place.

My husband doesn't understand. My kids don't understand. They try to be empathetic, but they just don't know what else to do. I was always so well-balanced and level. The light at the end of this tunnel is reading the "post-meno" posts. It seems that most of this eventually subsides or disappears. This site has more than once saved my sanity. I have said before and it bears repeating: GOD BLESS DEAREST!

Hang in there "peri sisters". What don't kill us will make us stronger.

Hugs,
Susan

Hi Mamamia

It never ceases to amaze me how many women on here understand - I also was a go getting successful woman till peri hit - and yet I can get no medical concensus on what is going on - no help - and no support - I am sorting myself out

Peri seems to be the most understudied human condition EVER - why is this the case - why are there so few studies? I cannot believe I go to the DR and say - I am at the end of my tether - I feel crap I cant sleep - etc etc etc - and he does nothing - just says I am anxious - I feel so misunderstood

My internal shaking and stomch symtpoms have gone off the scale in the last few days - despite getting out and about - doing exercise - eating healthy diet - meditating - it is still there - there is NOTHING I can do but go with the flow....

Drat drat and double drat

Better go out for my cycle

Mele