Hi Girls,
Newbie here and feel as if I am going slightly mad, sound familiar?
Do any of you get shivery, like your'e coming down with something? I have so many weird symptoms, I think I would need an hour with the doctor and that would never happen, generally, I just grin and bear it.
I am 54 and haven't had a period since July 2012. I have gone the 12 months without a period but I am still experiencing, swollen breasts, itching, creepy crawley feeling, vaginal cramps (like just before a period is coming), mood swings, aching joints, especially, knee, hips and ankle. Sudden episodes of severe pain which go as quickly as they came. Cystitis, urinary frequency (having to run to the low or else got caught short), brain fog, feeling of pressure on top of head, lack of enthusiasm for doing stuff around the house.
Without sounding like a long playing record, the list goes on and on and I have trailed thorugh so many medical sights and they all say that vaginal cramps are not normal after menopause, I beg to differ. My latest weird symptom, has been a cyclic occurance of piles, periods of constipation (which I never used to suffer from) and palpitations.
Having found this site, I feel as if I am no longer going completely bonkers, but probably all my symptoms mirror a lot of other people's.
How long after the cessation of periods, do you have to go without feeling the pain of phantom ones?
I live in Norway and am struggling with the language barrier. I am lucky to have found a lovely, lady doctor but she is always so busy and I feel as if I would need a double app with her at least to even get through some of my symptoms.
Thanks in anticipation,
Donnarob.