Menopause Discussion > Personal Experiences
Tell us how you cope with joint aches
BoingBoing:
I’m not coping with joint paint at all so any advise would be awesome!!!!
I’m 42 and last December I started Zoladex after my second laparoscopy to remove endo. I managed three injections but then stopped in February as I couldn’t cope with the constant neck, shoulder, spine and bone pain. I was on HRT but was still in agony.
Since stopping Zoladex things have not improved.
I restarted the HRT in April as my gynaecologist thought that maybe my body had not returned to its normal state seeing as I was still getting side effects - stating I was probably now in peri menopause .
I take oestrogel x 2 pumps a day and vaginal 100 utrogestan.
However I’m still in agony and feel rubbish :-\ :(
The constant neck, shoulder and spine pain is unbearable and I now also get frequent red boil type lumps under my armpit. Sleeping is a challenge too.
I’ve been back and forth to the gynaecologist and we are no further forward.
I do bleed each month and they are horrendously heavy and painful.
The last appointment with the gynaecologist was in august where he suggested I tried a continuous regime of HRT.
This has made things even worse as I ended up with hugely swollen and painful breasts, so I’ve abandoned this and gone back to cyclical.
Has anyone else experience these symptoms and if so what can be done to stop them and to help the pain (paracetamol, naproxen and codeine don’t help).
Thanks in advance
AKatieD:
I am a slow, overweight late 50s runner who only took it up a few years ago but kept having episodes of knee pain. 3/4 years ago MRI scan said I was on slope to knee replacement due to osteoarthritis.
Researched things that might help and are effective. Main source was the alternative treatments in the Versus Arthritis evaluation of compounds https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/complementary-and-alternative-treatments/what-are-complementary-and-alternative-treatments/
Glucosamine seemed to have little evidence to support it in the research. I picked those that did have evidence to support them. Tried pine bark/ pycogynol, frankincense/boswellia and turneric.
Whilst they helped a little, I was still getting ever more frequent episodes of knee pain that stopped me running. UNTIL I started HRT, none for over a year now and back to my slow jog!
Lizzie:
After 16 months of throbbing joints as I lay in bed at night, being in pain with every step I took, an MRI showing gluteal tendinopathy and physio, then another MRI for a frozen shoulder and further physio and acupuncture and a month not lay down in bed, I decided I had to do something. I was 54 and still having quite regular periods, had blood tests to see if I had arthritis, but nothing showed. So I went to my local private GP, Dr Sarah Myhill who is alternative in that she treats causes and not symptoms., She looked at my diet and said there was too much sugar. She also recommended going dairy free and gluten free to see if that helped. Carbohydrates are full of sugar. So my granola, blueberries, bananas, biscuits, cake, potatoes, bread rice and pasta had to go. I thought I would have nothing to eat, and as a fit farmer and not overweight, the idea seemed crazy. She has wrote many books and I generally just stuck to the low carbs foods. Cooked breakfast or yogurt and seeds for breakfast, a good salad for lunch, and cauliflower instead of rice etc. Alot of nuts for snacks, and not a slave to it, as eating out or holidays would be very difficult. After two months, I was a different person. That is 20 months ago now. If I have a weeks holiday and eat anything and everything, I do know about it, this has proved itself to me several times now. I had to share this, as I was worried that my future was looking bleak and painful, my age had made that my diet had to change with my body changes. Now I am on the fight with the flushes!!
Bindi:
Hi dr heather
My remedy is honestly the minute amount of ovestin im on that thankfully my dr proscribed after 3 yrs of feeling like shit..and i stood up and said no more tests ..i did have Va i had been thru 3 drs that said it wasn't meno related as i was in my 50s ..post meno at 54 im 60 in a few wks ..id had enough of travel and time and tests and money being wasted BECAUSE my drs at the time thought i was to old for meno and should of been over symptoms..my new dr at least listened and put me on ovestin..i do after the intial load and 7mths laterim down to a peas size dose every two days..my kneck and shoulder,wrist pains are at least at bay,my headaches have eased..but at my old premenstral times i struggle as the aches come back..but at least i know the ovestin helps..but many thing it shouldn't as it is not systemic but for me win win cause it is taking the edge off but from this forum which i read every night i know my meno is ok now but can change at any time..but is estoril cream is helping this ozzie yes and ty for the forum..its my little bit of peace and knowledge..and i know im not along ty 😊
cosmo68:
Hi, I recognise lots of the symptoms but initially I didn’t know it was menopause related. I assumed old age on a good day or imagined all sorts of neurological illness on bad days. I could never understand why the pain could come and go or move around my body and painkillers that had worked before now didn’t?
Starting HRT, lenzetto spray and Utrogestan 100mg, was the only thing that gave me relief. It hasn't taken every pain away but now able to do relaxation and exercise which really helps. As my anxiety is improving I feel more relaxed physically and it helps let go of pain.
I hope you all find something that works.🙂
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version