Hi everyone, its great to find this forum and site. What can I say...I feel like I am going crazy! Im 49, happily married with two lovely boys, I say boys...one a man now lol (19 and 14), I have always been a happy person, I love spending time with family and friends and socialising, but I feel my personality has changed so much over the last few months. This last year has been quite an emotional year; last November I lost a very close friend to liver cancer, I helped her family look after her for five months, a week after my friend passed my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer, luckily after 6 months of treatment she was given the all clear, then two weeks after mums all clear my 19 year old sons best friend (and our surrogate son since he was 5) was diagnosed with bone cancer (osteosarcoma of the knee), he’s in the middle of treatment and is very sadly having to have his leg amputated next week to save his life
. I feel like its been an emotional rollercoaster. Now for the bit where I sound like a doctors surgery....I’m almost embarrassed to list them all...but here goes. After mum’s diagnosis I started having the odd night sweat, at first I put them down the the trauma of mums illness, as I soon also started suffering with sleep problems and insomnia, but then I started suffering with reflux, lots of acid indigestion after meals and at night, feeling like food was going to get stuck especially if I ate alot of dry food, bloating, aching joints - especially in my feet, hands and neck, sinus problems, I started getting intermittent blurred vision, fuzzy headedness and forgetful, crushing fatigue and tiredness, palpitations, watery sore eyes, sore gums and mouth, sore breasts, vaginal dryness, intermittent painful sex and period type pain after sex, and my libido is dead! Along with all these crazy symptoms, emotionally, I am suffering with anxiety, primarily health anxiety, and convince myself regulary that I have a serious health condition...google has alot to answer for! I turn down or make excuses not to attend social events and don’t really enjoy anything that takes me away from home. I now walk my dog (Harv) when I know I won’t bump into people who may want to talk to me and I put off even going to the supermarket, I also text rather than call nowadays as I seem to have lost the art of conversation. I used to exercise regularly but now feel too tired most days and lack enthusiam for most things. I have been to my doctors, but I was so embarrassed to list all my problems, I just mentioned a few, he said it might be menopause...and I have just had blood tests for hormones levels, thyroid and iron...all came back normal with no further action necessary on my notes, obviously normal is good by I felt a tinge of disappointment that I couldnt now account for my symptoms
but I’ve since read that the perimenopause often gives normal hormone readings too, has anyone else experienced all these symptoms but normal hormone readings??...my main problem with diagnosis, is that I am on the progesterone pill, I was put on it for years of terrible period pain that sometimes lasted for two weeks before and after my period, this stopped my periods completely (as it does) which has been great not having the pain but I cannot monitor my periods properly now either, my doctor was reluctant to take me off of it because he said a dip in progesterone might add to my problems. Because of the breast cancer diagnosis with my mum, my doctor said he wouldnt like to put me on HRT even if tests showed that I was in the menopause, he recommended Black Cohosh, which I have been on for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say I feel a little more ‘with it’ but I’m still experiencing many of the other symptoms....I’d love to hear I’m not going crazy! Thanks for listening and reading xxx
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Topic: Hello and any help or advice would be sooooo appreciated xx (Read 1509 times)