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[Kathleen]

Hello Lavender Girl and welcome to the forum.

I completely sympathise with the physical anxiety sensation! I have experienced many and varied menopause symptoms over the years but the anxiety one is the hardest to deal with.

 I tried Rescue Remedy back in the day and can't recall why I stopped using it however  I think it contains alcohol which may be worth noting if that is important to you.


Wishing you well and take care.

K.


 

[sheila99]

My anxiety was from oestrogen deficiency. Hrt wasn't an immediate fix though, it took 3 months to go completely. Utrogestan can cause it too though it isn't a common side effect. If it doesn't settle you could try sequi utro which is 200mg x 12 days ( days 15-26). It might be better to get your oestrogen levels sorted out first and your symptoms under control before you consider a coil or other conti progestogen so you can tell what is causing what.

[Lavender Girl]

Hi Kathleen,
thanks so much for the welcome.
Thanks, that's all fine for me, I will give it a go.

It's weird today I woke quite calm.. and then as the day goes on I can just feel it rising to that feeling in my chest, and I'm extremely teary too.
As mentioned I'm going through some emotional stuff at the moment which doesn't help work out what's what.. but I know I've been through this kind of thing before and never felt this level of anxiety which is making me think it is the peri.

I'm going to adopt a different method of not trying to fight it but just manage it the best I can.  It just sits there on my chest, and like a lump in my throat and it never leaves me
I can't have silence either, used to love that and my own space and time.. realising now not so much.. I'm the lowest I've been for a few years now, and time doesn't seem to be healing.

Thanks for the support x

Hello Lavender Girl and welcome to the forum.

I completely sympathise with the physical anxiety sensation! I have experienced many and varied menopause symptoms over the years but the anxiety one is the hardest to deal with.

 I tried Rescue Remedy back in the day and can't recall why I stopped using it however  I think it contains alcohol which may be worth noting if that is important to you.


Wishing you well and take care.

K.

[Lavender Girl]

Hi Sheila,
Thanks I think I need to give it some time then.
Thanks for the info too
x

My anxiety was from oestrogen deficiency. Hrt wasn't an immediate fix though, it took 3 months to go completely. Utrogestan can cause it too though it isn't a common side effect. If it doesn't settle you could try sequi utro which is 200mg x 12 days ( days 15-26). It might be better to get your oestrogen levels sorted out first and your symptoms under control before you consider a coil or other conti progestogen so you can tell what is causing what.

[Lavender Girl]

doc was reluctant to prescribe me any additional meds while the hrt settles
Said it could be progesterone causing the anxiety
But she had prescribe me Buspirone 5mg but purely as an as and when tablet to take if I’m having a day like I did recently where nothing helped calm the anxiety and I didn’t know what else to do.
I don’t want to rely on them but good to know if I have it again like that it’s there
Anyone had these before?
Any experience welcomed.
Thanks
X

[CLKD]

 

[Lavender Girl]

Thank you!
Am trying to rescue remedy spray also x

[Spider24]

Hi Lavender Girl. I don't have much in the way of helpful, "take this" advice - but I'm currently in exactly the same mind space as you so wanted to let you know that you're not alone. I've just started HRT, literally 10 days ago, but I was bad before then so I'm not sure if the oestrogen spray has made it worse or not. I have the odd few minutes during the day where I think I feel a bit better, but most of the day I feel like my mind is going. The pain in my chest is the worst bit and it's affecting my breathing too.
I have had this before, many, many years ago when my best friend died, so the only thing I keep telling myself is, "this too shall pass".

[Lavender Girl]

I'm so sorry to hear this Spider.  I don't want anyone to feel how I feel.
I'm on day 19, and although I have had anxiety before (lost a friend to suicide in 2020 - so I hear you) it's been nothing of this level.  I feel like everything is amplified and heightened where before after a few days I could start to cope, every day at the moment I feel the same.  It is of course linked with the end of a relationship and friendship that meant a lot to me, so I know that's a huge part of it, but I was hoping the HRT would help but seems to be making it worse for now.

Same as you.. I sometimes think oh ok my mind is off the situation and I'm ok.. but then that feeling rises from my stomach up to my chest, that crippling tightness and the lump in my throat and nothing brings me down from that.  I just have to get to bed time.
The chest thing is awful I agree, and the breathing exercises etc that people tell you to do just don't touch it for me.  I'm almost glad to be prescribed this drug as it feels like a comfort thing, and I know it's there if I need to use it if I have a really really bad day when I can't control anything.
I also cry at the drop of a hat.. and that was never me.
Have you talked to your doctor?
you're not alone either! xx

Hi Lavender Girl. I don't have much in the way of helpful, "take this" advice - but I'm currently in exactly the same mind space as you so wanted to let you know that you're not alone. I've just started HRT, literally 10 days ago, but I was bad before then so I'm not sure if the oestrogen spray has made it worse or not. I have the odd few minutes during the day where I think I feel a bit better, but most of the day I feel like my mind is going. The pain in my chest is the worst bit and it's affecting my breathing too.
I have had this before, many, many years ago when my best friend died, so the only thing I keep telling myself is, "this too shall pass".

[Minnie Mouse]

Hiya,
You're not alone....I have recurrent bouts... tight chest, breathlessness.
I've found CBD dummies helpful, might even be placebo effect...

[Nas]

Which Cbd gummies do you use please Minnie Mouse?

[Lavender Girl]

Thanks Minnie, I've read mixed reviews about them, so yeah be great to know which ones you use.
I'm using the rescue remedy ones not cbd atm

Hiya,
You're not alone....I have recurrent bouts... tight chest, breathlessness.
I've found CBD dummies helpful, might even be placebo effect...

[Minnie Mouse]

Holland & Barrett, green and yellow ones, taste nice and dials down evening anxiety in a fairly tame way

[Spider24]

I think I'm going to go back onto sertraline. I have been on and off it for many years and it does seem to work for me, but then I have years of feeling fine and think I don't need it... I have been off it for almost 1 year now, but I think it was a bad timing to come off it because my peri- symptoms have gone through the roof - unless they are linked to not taking sertraline and nothing to do with menopause.
Who knows at this point? Do I stop HRT and give sertraline a try by itself, or do I continue with HRT alone and hope it helps me mentally. I've just ordered some rescue remedy, should be here tomorrow. I do have CBD oil in actually, so I might give that a go too.
Do many people take AD's and HRT? Should I just do this?

[CLKD]

Spider - some find that keeping a mood/food/symptom diary of use to chart progress. Many use HRT and ADs to keep symptoms under control.  It can be Trial and Error until a regime is found that suits each individual.

R U able to explain your peri symptoms?   Browse round.  Make notes ;-)