Hi to everyone,
So glad I found this site this morning as I feel like I'm going mad and think it may be perimenopause? A little about me:
I just turned 49 this month and prior to May this year my periods were always very regular every 26 to 28 days and havent used the pill for years.
Then the fun started, I missed a period and since then they have been all over the place, light, heavy, had two with heave clots, some 2 weeks apart and some six weeks apart, some lasted a couple of days and some a couple of weeks.
I was convinced I had cervical cancer and my smear test was due which came back normal.
I have an underactive thyroid and have been on medication for about 8 years but around the same time I felt a heavy feeling in my neck, and a dry, red throat, my tsh levels were raising also so my thyroxine was increased. I was convinced I had thyroid or throat cancer so doctor sent to specialist who put a camera down my throart and did scan of my neck but results were fine. I have some nodules which we knew about but nothing else.
The ultrasound did show some swolen lymph nodes in my neck and he checked under my arm but they were fine. He said they were not the shape or swolen enough to be of concern but I am still terribly worried about it as my throat is still dry(sometimes more than others, and the feeling in my neck still comes and goes)
I seem to experience pain all over which comes and goes, my arm pits, back of my neck, legs, last night my skin was hurting on the inside of my arm from wrist to elbow but gone today. Now I have an ache behind my knee. Everytime I feel these aches I feel like there is something seriously wrong with me and I am dying!!
Mentally, I am all over the place, dont feel like I can cope with work which is very stressful at the best of times. Im constantly crying over something and nothing, feel totally stressed and so so anxious, like I said avove I am convinced I am dying and feel really scared. I have just come back from a two week holiday in the caribbean and the first week i was so moody and took it out on my husband.
Whilst we were away I started noticing hot flushes (sometimes sweats) during the night. I thought this may just be the heat over there but since being back I have them even worse, last night I got hardly any sleep and I'm getting them during the day also, I have just been for a walk to cool down from doing the ironing!!
I have had a headache yesterday and today which comes and goes and I feel achy all over but maybe that is the jet lag?
The only other thing that seems to have altered is my calcium level was slightly low. I have to book an appointment for a repeat blood test and they will check this again along with my thyroid.
I have done some research and spoke to the doctor who said it may be the start of menopause but then it could be my thyroid as that would affect my periods.
I really feel like I'm going mad along with a few other on here I think! It is very comforting to see i am not alone in my symptoms and fears.