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[Focus]

I felt a bit nauseous last week. It was a weird feeling as I never normally feel nauseous.

My anxiety is pretty bad at the moment, but nothing I've not dealt with before in life.

And my sleep is really, really bad. Also nothing I've not dealt with before in life. Anyway, I woke up at 2.30 this morning and only managed to get to sleep just before it was time to get up. Typical.

But I feel really nauseous as well. From the very back of my throat.

I struggled to eat lunch. And even just the thought of food is making me feel sick.

I'm super fed up of this roller coaster.

[Focus]

Sorry for posting all the time. I don't have anyone to talk to about all of this.

[Dotty]

Hi Focus nausea was one of my worst menopause symptoms. And total exhaustion was another.

Are you taking hrt?

Don't apologise for posting . We've all been where you are x

[Focus]

Hi Focus

I can't remember, are you taking any meds or hrt?

Where are you on this meno journey?

I'm 49, I don't take hrt and decided to go the natural route. Lifestyle changes, etc...
I was still having some hot flushes, so have been taking AD's for a couple of weeks. I cut the tablet in half, but even by taking half the dose, my head feels heavy, headaches, strained eyes and horrible anxiety. I'm coming off them from today. They're horrible!!

X

Sorry to hear that. I've had ADs once in my life and I felt like I was wrapped in cotton wool. It was horrible.

49, on Loestrin 20, then L30, since December to help heavy periods/flooding/clotting. Night sweats, hot flushes, dehydration, brittle and splitting nails. I've probably missed a whole bunch of stuff out...

So, I think I'm feeling my oestrogen levels coming down in big bumps behind the scenes of the BCP, if you like. I can feel what's going on in my body even though I'm taking it.

[Focus]

Hi Focus nausea was one of my worst menopause symptoms. And total exhaustion was another.

Are you taking hrt?

Don't apologise for posting . We've all been where you are x

Thank you.

No, I'm on the combined pill for flooding/constant heavy periods/clotting. On it until I'm 50. And really dreading when I come off it, as I can feel it's smoothing things out a fair bit for me.

[Dotty]

Perhaps you'd be better switching to hrt x

[Focus]

Thank you.

Yeah, the BCP is absolutely brilliant.

My main worry is that I'm self employed, so that if I'm not working, or not in the position to accept future work, I'm not earning money. I'm really on a tight rope.

I had an absolutely horrendous couple of years financially 2015/2016 when my now ex h left and barely made it. I had no central heating or hot water for a month at one point the first winter as my boiler broke and I couldn't afford to get it seen to and fixed. So I'm sort of scarred by that.

Funny thing is, I think I can tell what's going on with my period/withdrawal bleed even though I'm on the pill. It was really bad the first time, and with PMS so bad that I almost passed out. But the last few have been barely there.

I could be wrong though. Who knows?

[Kathleen]

Hello  Focus

I think you've mentioned that you don't have children  and please forgive me if that's incorrect, but the nausea you are experiencing could be similar to morning sickness.

At the beginning of my meno journey I had horrendous morning sickness, at least that's what it felt like, though ironically  I didn't have it during my pregnancies.  I was so worried I described it to a GP friend and told her that my periods had recently stopped. She confirmed my suspicions and said it wasn't that unusual. I'm afraid I can't recall how I dealt with it, I probably just toughed it out and after a while it went away. Even now at nine years post meno I occasionally feel a bit nauseous but it is much milder than before and is usually accompanied by a flush and the jitters.

I'm sorry that I can't be of practical help but it's likely to be another lovely symptom of  ever declining hormones. I'm with you on being fed up with this roller coaster by the way, it would test the patience of a saint!

Wishing you well.

K.

[Focus]

Sorry, but what is BCP?

That's good your periods are getting less! Have you had any months with none or does the pill make you have one?

You seem very healthy, I remember you saying about the gym.

Do you eat a good balanced diet. It's really good to have chickpeas (hummus), lentils and ground flaxseeds, oats, broccoli and carrots etc as these are all phytoestrogens. They help balance hormones.

Do you know if you have/ had fibroids as these can cause heavy bleeding and pain? X

Birth control pill Jari

The pill still makes you have one, although the last ones practically non existent. I don't know if that is because of my own hormones. I'm not sure what the science behind it is, if you still get the fluctuations you would have if you weren't taking it or if the pill totally irons them out. It certainly feels that way...I can feel those fluctuations going on 'in the background' as it were and maybe less intense than they would be if I wasn't on it.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a health freak, when I'm in a good place mentally. If I'm not, I tend to go the restriction route and cutting out foods/food groups. Which is why I try and keep myself on the straight and narrow so much mentally.

I love all those things you mentioned (especially green veg), but oats are really, really bad for my IBS. I can have one oatcake once in a while, but any more and the pain is pretty intense.

Fibroids, I had an ultrasound a couple of months ago. Just from the outside though because of my PTSD, and the doctor said she could see a couple, but they looked quite small.

[Focus]

Hello  Focus

I think you've mentioned that you don't have children  and please forgive me if that's incorrect, but the nausea you are experiencing could be similar to morning sickness.

At the beginning of my meno journey I had horrendous morning sickness, at least that's what it felt like, though ironically  I didn't have it during my pregnancies.  I was so worried I described it to a GP friend and told her that my periods had recently stopped. She confirmed my suspicions and said it wasn't that unusual. I'm afraid I can't recall how I dealt with it, I probably just toughed it out and after a while it went away. Even now at nine years post meno I occasionally feel a bit nauseous but it is much milder than before and is usually accompanied by a flush and the jitters.

I'm sorry that I can't be of practical help but it's likely to be another lovely symptom of  ever declining hormones. I'm with you on being fed up with this roller coaster by the way, it would test the patience of a saint!

Wishing you well.

K.

Thank you Kathleen.

Yeah, I'm just toughing it out. Just another one of those flipping annoying things to have to try and deal with.

Yup, you're right - I don't have children. The nausea thing is weird, I never, ever normally feel that way. So it's a weird one for me.

For me, the anxiety is the worst of everything at the moment. There's been a couple of times I've gone downhill really fast and ended up feeling super low. Once at Christmas (combination of circumstances) and once two weekends ago.

And worse than the anxiety was the flooding/clotting.

So I guess I'm learning to deal with one thing at a time, as they all come up, in sort of quick succession...right? *sigh*