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[karenja]

Hi Amandajane

Ive had the numbless and tingling, nausea, sweats, jelly legs, palpatations, feeling like my heart is coming out of my chest, chest tightness, health anxiety, feelings of doom, god the worms crawling feeling is something I haven't experience thank goodness, but this site is invaluable Ive had so much advice xx

[Dorothy]

My skin is going so wrinkly that I'm beginning to feel eating prunes would be cannibalism.  I was expecting that as I know dry skin is one of the symptoms, but I am also coming out with spots like I haven't since I was about 15.  Is this normal?  It seems really unfair to have to cope with aging skin AND teenage skin trouble at the same time 

[Briony]

I sympathise with the spots, Dorothy. If they get bad - the cystic ones with no head are typically menopausal - have a word with your GP. A low dose antibiotic has really helped me x

[Hurdity]

I had menopausal spots - sort of raised hot red ones on my cheeks but without a head as Briony says and I didn't have acne as a teenager.They disappeared never to return when I started HRT - well they briefly started to come back when I stopped HRT for 3 months, 4 years ago...

Hurditty x

[Dulciana]

I get a lot of what various people have put here, plus feelings of apathy, irritability, self-doubt and being overwhelmed.  Oh yes, and a tendency to over-anticipate.   

[Millykin]

Haven't had that feeling but had a little chuckle to myself, I had health anxiety and if something cropped up on left side ( anywhere head to toe ) I thought heart ! But anything on right side I'm ok with. Strange
X

[Briony]

JUlesishappy, I get it too, but in my shoulder. It's recognised as a symptom of low oestrogen (forgotten what the medical term is but it means 'weird crawling sensations'). x

[holidaylover]

'Formication' is the name for the creepy feeling, and yip!, I am sitting at this moment with it in my arms and legs. Slightly prickly and like things are crawling under the skin. Amandajane46, I think I gave exact same symptoms, although, I yet have to experience the worms over eyes. I'm sure I'll get hit by this at some point too! (Did get cobweb feeling on nose though). The joys!

[gladys]

Sore teeth and gums very sensitive.sore boobs crawling feeling over my shoulders heart palpitations feeling of dread sadness sore joints sore foot right one noise in ears sore throat oh the joys all this and my mother just passed away but coped better than I thought I would

[cheekygal]

Hi Ladies,  I have many of the symptoms a lot of you mention, here's my most bothersome.....

Anxiety sometimes to the point that I feel I am about to have some sort of mental breakdown. 

Feelings of dread about almost everything. 

Low moods, black cloud feeling

Sensitive to noise and bright lights, especially in supermarkets, hate when there's a queue, makes anxiety worse.

Dizziness, and cotton wool head feeling

Random twitching muscles & sometimes inner shaking (not as bad as it used to be)

I do sometimes find it hard to believe they are hormone related.  A  female GP even said to me we can't blame everything on hormones!  She must've been one of the lucky ones as I am sure she is late 50's!

There's no way of telling if our symptoms are down to low or high estrogen, I've rea some people feel worse on HRT

[cheekygal]

Sorry I hit the post button before I was finished.  As I was saying, I read some women felt worse on HRT, but I guess it's all about what's best for us as an individual.

CG x

[cheekygal]

I actually remember the first time I had the wooly head feeling, it was the day I got my  periods back after having my first child 29 years ago, that was the start of a horrendous 14 years trying various different antidepressants and homeopathic treatments all of which made me worse, I ended up agarophobic for 12 of those years, so looking back maybe it was hormonal after all.  I read an article from the daily mail a few years back, where Denise Welch commented on her experiences of depression and anxiety, which was made worse by the menopause.  This prompted her to visit Professor Studd, who said she was estrogen deficient, and probably had been for years, she hadn't looked back since and said the menopause was the best thing that happened to her as she to had been fobbed off for years and also given AD's.

CG x

[Essexragdoll]

Oh my goodness did you have the wooly head for the whole of the 14 years ?

[Tracey123]

Hi,

I have just posted my concerns and then just read your post. I have most of the syptoms you have mentioned...(.OMG I have just had a mental block with my spellings) Yeah that too!

I just hope that I can get my life back at some point! x

[cheekygal]

No Essexragdoll, not the whole 14 years, I did have spells inbetween where I felt well, but looking back just wondering if all my problems have been hormone related.  I had a not too bad couple of months recently, then had a period 3 weeks ago, first one in 14 weeks and have had pretty bad anxiety again ever since.

Tracey, yep the spelling is another and word block, I only listed the ones that bother me the most.  Oh I wish this would end, sat here now feeling my arms are shaking and just want to cry.

CG x