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[mac]

Thank you. Trying to eat.  Friends have just been to the house and i hid upstairs .  OMG.
Think this forum and you ladies should be nominated for a humanitarian award because without you I don't know what i would do.

Mac

[Bette]

 
I remember sitting on the stairs shaking one day after one of OH's friends had dropped by for a cup of tea.  It was horrible at the time but I did come out the other side and so will you. Keep posting. 
Bette x

[paisley]

Hi mac,
       how are you?  I had a little blip  last night. We decided to go out for dinner  and you know it is hot here in Spain well in the evening it was still 30 degrees and I was sweating before I went out. Got out and was walking along high street then I just felt really panicky and weepy and I realized it was about 7pm and I hadn't eaten since 1pm nipped into shop got some bananas, hubby looking at me as though I was mad. I was determined to carry on, went for dinner, everyone was eating outside so that was better  than being inside, but the feelings never left me all evening.
Today feel up and down suppose it is still AD withdrawal effects but it really knocks you and your right confidence as well. I hate never knowing how I will feel from 1 day to next that really knocks me, I might feel fine and think great and 5 mins later feel really bad. Where does that come from.
YOU WILL GET THERE

[mac]

Hi Ladies

Feeling a little bit better, managed to go with hubbie to pick up our daughter from her sleepover.
CLKD hope your day is getting better your support is fantastic.
Mrs P your kind words and reassurance is fantastic.
Bette so sorry to hear you had this feeling as well but reassurring that you did, its odd in that one minute its awful and the next i can feel ok.
Paisley your a brave woman for managing to stay out at dinner, well done, hope your day has been good.
I wish i knew how long this is going to take but i suppose that's the impossible question

Mac

[Horsie]

I'm having feelings like this today and a horrible underlying feeling that is sometimes almost physical. I have almost no appetite at the moment so it is a real struggle to eat enough but I have realised that when I do feel bad invariably it coincides with not having eaten so I really appreciate all the advice about keeping your blood sugar up 
Like you Paisley I hate not knowing from one day to the next how I'm going to feel and often think I make it worse by dwelling on it but I just can't help it 
Mac - Its good that you are feeling a little better and I hope it continues that way for you. I ask myself the same question about when all this will end but there's no answer is there? 

[mac]

Hi Horise

I so sympathise with you   These feelings that we're having are awful.  My hubbie is cooking dinner at the moment and the smell is making me nauseous, but i know I have to eat otherwise i feel even worse. Are you on HRT

Hope you and all of us begin to feel better soon.

Macxx

[Horsie]

Hi Mac, no I'm not on anything at all and am going to try to continue but it may be unrealistic to expect that. I was given Citalopram recently but don't want to take it at the moment.  I'd say that one of the worst things I feel is restlessness and discontentment but is that peri menopause? I just don't know.  I'm also unsure about whether my feelings are anxiety - how is it with you?     Like you, I just can't wait to feel better.......

[mac]

Hi Horsie

I am at the stage where i will take anything to feel better.  I'm on propanalol for the anxiety because I couldn't cope, had 4 visits to the gp within a week.  It all seems to have got worse since I stopped my patches because i thought they were not compatable with my thyroxine tabs.  I started on the ad's as well.  I think the anxiety seems to be a little better and i'm only on my 5th day of the AD'S.

I've now had to take time of work, because i feel so awful
Mac

[Horsie]

Hi Mac, if you don't mind me asking how does the anxiety manifest itself? How do you actually feel? Do you have a physical feeling or is it totally in your head? Maybe my feelings are anxiety, I just don't know because I wouldn't say that I was anxious.  I send you support & best wishes that you'll feel better very soon x

[paisley]

Sorry to hear horsie that you aren't feeling so good either. I think there is def a link between low blood sugar cos as I said before had blip last night and really weirdly just had another about same time as last night and both times felt hungry before. It just came over me I suddenly felt so down and then panicky and hot. I had a banana and some almonds and feel a little better. I am going to do a test tomorrow, I am going to have normal breakfast, lunch and tea and then a snack in between and not go more than 2 hours without food whether I feel like it or not.
Horsie and mac I am not surprised you feel worse cos you aren't even on hrt, mac you came off yours and your body is not used yet to doing without it.
I can't stand these highs and lows, it is so cruel to feel fine one min and not the next.
 I am on hrt and still not balanced

[Horsie]

Hi Paisley, thanks for your reply. I'm going to do what you're going to do and try and eat little and often and see if it makes a difference.  Because I now eat so little, weight has fallen off me and I wasn't particularly overweight before. Let's compare notes after our test and see if it makes a difference - God I hope so All I want is to feel normal and happy again. Best Wishes x

[mac]

Hi Horsie
Its like an uncontrolable feeling of fear.  I feel it in the pit of my stomach like a knot. Its like I've lost control and i can't explain why and it feels very frightening.  At times it feels like a surge of something biulding up either adrenaline or hormones.  For me its both physical, and mental although i know its irrational its very difficult when your in the middle of the anxiety.  If you have time, read the rest of this thread as CLKD explains it better.

Paisley, I've been of the HRT now since the 16th May, do you think that my body is just adjusting?

Think I'll do the same as you eat every few hours, although I have no appetite and have to force myself.
I've lost over a stone in weight since March.
Macxx

[paisley]

I think when your in the midst of anxiety it is really hard to think rationalize it, it's the flight or fight response isn't it. We want to run away cos our body thinks it is in danger but we aren't and the more we worry the more adrenaline we release and are bodies can't calm down so it is constantly in hyper alert.
Mac you have only been off hrt for over 2 weeks and they say it takes 3 months to totally get in your system so |I would def think that you are still withdrawing from it and your body doesn't like it after getting used to something.
Fortunately horsie I have a bit of spare weight to lose especially around my tummy but it is no fun when you can't afford to lose anymore is it?
I remember once I was so ill I lost loads of weight when I had pnd and a so called friend thought I was lucky cos I had lost it, she said I wouldn't mind having what you've got, She wasn't my friend much longer, it just goes to show that some people will never feel like this and have no understanding whats so ever what others go through.

[Anne B]

Many hugs to all you ladies suffering from anxiety. I know the feeling well and had a bad day with it today.
Can relate to the weight loss too. Lost 2 stones since March and last time I was weighed by GP 2 weeks ago she said she wanted to see me in the overweight category on her chart. That's a first, being told to get fat by a medic. I think she was just wanting to see that I was eating properly again. It was a good job I was carrying enough weight to begin with because I cannot imagine what it would be like to lose so much weight when already slim.
I try to eat little and often. Has been difficult and dreading going back to be weighed because only put on 1 pound. Still it's better than losing it.
Away to have a ginger & lemon tea with a ginger snap. Not very nutritious but that's what I fancy.

XXX
Anne B

[JJ]

Mac, annb and horsie firstly 

I so relate to how you are feeling, I felt like this early last year , awful awful awful, after many visits to the doc, tests etc only positive result was peri menopause. Initially I couldn't accept the way I felt was due to per menopause, I began to read, and I wish I had been forewarned as I didn't expect to feel like this. I've basically been on anti depressants for a year now and very slowly they began to help, still have anxiety but at the moment my life is pretty much back on track. I don't feel the same yet, but I'm getting there, managed big wedding last December and six months before it I felt a complete wreck.

Anxiety is such a difficult thing to cope with BUT IT WILL get better.  Read all the posts on here re anxiety, get as many tips as you can and put as many as you can into practice. Slowly you will learn to live with the anxiety and as this happens it will begin to fade into the background. I still have some anxiety some days I have none, some weeks I feel totally normal and some weeks it's lurking but it doesn't overwhelm. I should think at some point this year I may begin reducing ads but I'm in no rush, I'm hoping I'm someone who has difficult peri and an easier post menopause.

Do see your gps and keep seeing them, try what you can and what you want to to help you feel better. This site is so very very good at helping and no side effects. 
Sorry this post looks a bit long x