Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook

media

Pages: [1] 2 3

Author Topic: Morning Anxiety  (Read 5362 times)

Angel1964

  • Guest
Morning Anxiety
« on: November 02, 2018, 07:08:31 AM »

How can I cope with morning anxiety?? I sleep pretty well as think I'm exhausted from the anxiety. I wake around 430am for a wee. Sometimes I go back off til 6am. On waking I sweat, feel like a massive phone has been put in my body on vibrate. I feel nauseous, shaky and that kicks off my anxiety, for sometimes the rest of the day. The vibrations can last til around 9pm and then I'm so tired I can't keep eyes open but fight it til around 1030pm for bed. I have noticed lately I am cold all day too.
Logged

Dierdre

  • Guest
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2018, 07:27:35 AM »

Have you seen your doctor about this?
Logged

Angel1964

  • Guest
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2018, 07:39:50 AM »

Yes all bloods and everything ok.
Logged

racjen

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 1030
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2018, 08:00:03 AM »

Me too - sounds exactly the same. I haven't found anything that helps and it's being going on for over a year now. I wish I could suggest something Angel, but there are lots of other women on here who suffer from this and someone else might be able to suggest something that works for you.
Logged

marge

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 299
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2018, 08:07:09 AM »

Sorry to hear you're suffering.  I, too, had the vibrations during meno and my GP told me it was low oestrogen coupled with anxiety and it would pass and it has.  Hope you're feeling better soon.
Logged

Angel1964

  • Guest
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2018, 08:18:33 AM »

Do you all feel cold and shivery too all day?
Logged

Bluebell

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 197
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2018, 08:38:36 AM »


I too wake around 4.30am because of a nightsweat ... I go for a wee get back into bed then toss and turn feeling anxious, stomach churning and sometimes have to go back to the loo because of my bowels. 😬  I'm 64 and 5 years post menopausal. When will it ever be normal again.
Logged

Angel1964

  • Guest
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2018, 09:06:40 AM »


I too wake around 4.30am because of a nightsweat ... I go for a wee get back into bed then toss and turn feeling anxious, stomach churning and sometimes have to go back to the loo because of my bowels. 😬  I'm 64 and 5 years post menopausal. When will it ever be normal again.

Hi Carol. I was on hrt patches Femseven Conti and I keep a diary everyday of symptoms. I noticed that I was better on the HRT so yesterday have gone back on it as since stopping it 3 weeks ago all these feelings have come back with a vengeance.  Do you feel cold and shivery with it during day? Does yours subside like mine in evening? Only to start again on waking??
Logged

Angel1964

  • Guest
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2018, 09:09:06 AM »

Me too - sounds exactly the same. I haven't found anything that helps and it's being going on for over a year now. I wish I could suggest something Angel, but there are lots of other women on here who suffer from this and someone else might be able to suggest something that works for you.

Hi racjen I know it's awful and exhausting. Let's hope someone has a solution as I'm exhausted from all this adrenaline xx
Logged

Dotty

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 4194
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2018, 09:21:59 AM »

Have you tried Oestrogel? X
Logged

Angel1964

  • Guest
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2018, 09:42:01 AM »

Have you tried Oestrogel? X

No and GP has never suggested it? Is it a cream? I only know of patches or tablets. Started my Femseven Conti patches again yesterday x
Logged

SueLW

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 474
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2018, 10:52:50 AM »

The vibration, sweating and adrenaline/anxiety all sound adrenal to me and if you go onto any adrenal insufficiency groups you will be told those are symptoms.  When our oestrogen drops all sorts of issues occur with our metabolism.  Our thyroids can slow down and our poor adrenal glands try to keep everything going on their own.  They get whacked out pretty quickly by all that effort and then they go out of sync and you get all these other symptoms.  Feeling cold all day is a thyroid issue, (I suspect your thyroid blood result was higher than it should be, but no GP in the UK will even acknowledge that until you are practically bed ridden these days).  The best way to treat adrenals and give them a boost is to consume a lot of vitamin C, magnesium and a quality sea salt.  Find a food grade Vitamin C and take 1000mg 3 times a day.  Make sure you take a good quality Vitamin B complex and use sea salt either on your food or mix some with a little warm water and orange juice and drink it.  Also use magnesium every day.  Transdermal magnesium oil is a good product.  Or magnesium glyconate will not cause stomach upsets.  After that you need a routine of going to bed and getting up at the same time every day.  Before bed at night practice good sleep hygiene, no computer screens for at least 1 hour before bed (certainly don't do what I do which is stay up raging on Twitter until the early hours!  ;) ) and use lavender essential oil, either in a burner to scent the room or mix with a little carrier oil or coconut oil and rub into your wrists.

Adrenal healing takes a long time, but it can be done gently like above.  If you wake in the middle of the night and feel the anxiety coming back in, get up and apply more magnesium oil or take a tablet, take some more vitamin C and a little salt, reapply some lavender oil and go back to bed.

A few years ago I was in a right mess with adrenal issues.  I'm so much better now.  Ring your GP surgery and ask for a print out of the last test results your GP did for you and go and pick them up.  Keep them.  Look for anything that is low or high in range, especially thyroid and work to normalise those areas if they are something you can do.  I needed thyroid medication but my GP wasn't giving it to me.  So I had to get a private menopause doctor to write me the script at first.  She didn't get the dosing right by a long way, I've had to work that out for myself, but that took the pressure off my adrenal glands, as has getting to grips with HRT.

Good luck.  It's never just one thing unless we are lucky.  It's often a perfect storm.
Logged

Ladybt28

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 1422
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2018, 11:36:31 AM »

Hi Angel1964 - you will see from my other posts I have suffered terribly with the menopause(much of it not picked up by a GP and well...I didn't know anything did I - I hadn't been menopausal before!)  - and have had a real problem finding solutions.  I started peri about 45 and am now 56.  I was on prempakc until discontinued then the trouble started.  All the symptoms that yourself and racje have outlined.  My short answer on this is to say that oestrogel has been the answer for me on the oestrogen side because it is a pump gel.  You can start at one pump and work your way up to 4 pumps (according to the GP but some ladies on here use as much as 6 pumps).  Because it is flexible you can work your way up slowly and work out which symptoms disappear at what stage.  As I worked my way up I got sore boobs but that disappears after a while as your body adjusts. 

It is a gel and you pump it onto your inner thighs or upper arms in the morning (sometimes women split the dose morning and evening - you just see how it goes).

My shakes, anxiety, joint pain, waking up nauseaous, sweating panic and agrophobia have pretty much all gone now and I am on 4 pumps and just completed 2 months of a oestrogel/Utrogestan regime. I have problems with the progesterone bit - but that's another story. 

If as I said yesterday your femseven doesnt sort it and it will take at least 3 weeks for those to kick in probably - then try oestrogel.  There is no quick fix when the body gets itself so upset.

Logged

Taz2

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 26853
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #13 on: November 02, 2018, 11:50:03 AM »


I too wake around 4.30am because of a nightsweat ... I go for a wee get back into bed then toss and turn feeling anxious, stomach churning and sometimes have to go back to the loo because of my bowels. 😬  I'm 64 and 5 years post menopausal. When will it ever be normal again.

Carol are you on HRT?

Taz x
Logged

Dotty

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 4194
Re: Morning Anxiety
« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2018, 01:16:34 PM »

Oestrogel is  a gel which you put on your shoulders / outer arms or inner thighs.  It has worked wonders for me.  I am on 4 pumps...aged 54 and 4 years post meno.

How many Femseven patches have you got? there have been reports on here about them stopping the manufacture of them and they won't be available until late 2019 x


Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3