Hello all, not posted for a while but still keep up with things.
A while ago, I joined in a thread in which someone mentioned the Early Morning Dreads, which perfectly described the awful way I was feeling at the time. I was on HRT, Premarin and it was shared by a couple of ladies that they also had these feelings (manifesting in dreadful anxiety and butterflies and feelings of doom on waking and for a few hours) and it was mooted that perhaps the hormones upset the homeostasis of the body...the over production of cortisol during the night could be causing these terrible and very real feelings and sensations in the morning. This made such sense to me and when I came off HRT for other reasons a few months later, I found that the dreads completely disappeared and I have been feeling pretty good for the last year or so, despite a few awful things happening in my life. Seem to be over the worst of meno too which is wonderful. The odd flush but not much. Anyway - I was recently diagnosed again with acid reflux and gastritis, and the Gp has put me on something called Omeprazole. Within three days of taking this as prescribed...got the awful jittery anxiety back in the mornings, exactly as before.
Just wondered if anyone else can identify with this? I'm not sure what to do...the reflux is awful, and has actually manifested not just with the usual heartburn, but a horrible bubbly cough too, I've had it for about three months, my chest crackles. Doc says its the acid going up one pipe and down the other. Don't really want to stop the medication but I can't go through this doom thing again, it's hell.
Who would get old huh
Thanks