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[CLKD]

Yep. I've had that problem since age 3  …… for several years I rarely went into our kitchen 

[Suzi Q]

For me, probably the defining symptom of peri menopause is the awful, sickening, dreads and jitters. At my lowest I woyld meerkat-wake before dawn feeling like I had just been told I had only a week left to live. The feeling of despair and hopelessness was awful. And of course you can't escape it because it's creeping around in your own head all the time.

Even now that I am doing so much better on the BCP I still wake a good hour or more before I'd like. And while I don't get the dread and despair anymore, I feel preternaturally alert, not nicely sleepy.

20 yrs after last period I get the hee be jeebies Im a wreck when it hits and it comes for n o reason
I go to bed fine wake up feeling like Im going to my death I was given Inderal beta Blocas they work
Sometimes I take 1/2 twice a day and it goes in 3/4 days then for the next 4 I go to 1/4 then none
I ease off slowly and Im fine for months THEN BANG again for abso no reason I can fathom
Longest time its lasted was 29 days on the 30th Gone? xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hugs and cuddles

[Spangles]

Hi Ladies,
I'm a little late to this thread but I can identify all of it. When I get like this all my irrational thought processes start an insomnia kicks in and it takes a while to shift. However when I experience a hot flush I'm the same.  I get confused as to what is the jittery anxiety and what is menopausal. Does anyone else feel this.
Thanks
Shellb
xXx

[Galadriel]

Same here. I can go for days feeling tickety-boo, then out of the blue along comes the jitters with its mate the 'what if' Gremlin!

I've even been known to feel jittery when, in actual fact, I'm excited about something... DD coming home from Uni at the end of the week, putting up the Christmas tree etc.

I think my morning jitters may actually be the morning cortisol rise, only now I'm peri I seem to be super-sensitive to it and misinterpret it as 'danger'. 

Galadriel x

[Suzi Q]

Good well done you 

[Spangles]

Yes I'm aware of cortisol, does anyone know how to lower levels?

[dazned]

You need to eat something last thing at night,maybe small ham sandwish,milky drink,few biscuits,whatever ,keep some biscuits,ricecakes, by bed if you can have some before you get up. Sometimes keeping the blood sugar levels from dropping can help. Cortisol production is at its highest in mornings guess in preparation for the coming day .

[babyjane]

snap Sparklers, I also have a double GP appointment next Monday, wouldn't you credit it 

[CLKD]

Is it higher as we wake?

[dazned]

It's peak time is early mornings about 0800 but it starts to rise from 0400 in the morning ,so whilst we are sleep it's slowly building up ,sometimes it can go a bit awry producing to much too fast ,I think that's why some people experience this early morning meerkat waking . 

[Spangles]

Ok
I understand why I wake at 4am every day now and don't go back to sleep!
I'm going to start milk and biscuits before bed again.
Thanks very much for the info on cortisol.
Shellb
xXx

[CLKD]