Hello Everyone ,
My GP recommended this website when I saw her last week in floods of tears as I was sure I had some dire brain condition ! Been reading for a few days and feel much better ::
Some background - I'm 52 and been peri since about the age of 46 , had loads different symptoms ,periods gradually faded away ( after being so heavy I was anaemic ) , last I saw was slight spotting last oct .
Have had a hectic few months , my daughter got married so wedding stuff to do and I found the hot weather really hard going . Then we went on holiday for two weeks , my sleeping had got worse , if I got 4 hours I thought I was doing well ,and it was boiling . First week was all good , then one day my husband said , why are you being so snappy ( hadnt realised I was ). Then I started not saying the words I was thinking at times or words would be mixed up . I PANICKED .This had never happened to me before and my anxiety went off the scale - the silly googling didnt help matters . So I was in a right old state . My husband said "this is the menopause I can tell your hormones have changed " but anxious meno brain didnt believe him .
By the time we came home I had hardly slept and barely eaten , I walked into my house after 12 hours travelling and started opening the cupboards instead of the fridge and other things along those lines - I PANICKED AGAIN - was really scared ! ( funny though , while i was worrying about not be able to do stuff properly , the speech thing went away ).
Also I had a mildly upset tummy and felt the sort of tiredness you get after childbirth . And was starting new job soon . Dehydrated ? Stressed ? Fatigue ?
And I reckon my hormones went off a cliff.....
So I end up at GPs .Have started on Evorel Conti patch . Only just though as had trouble with it sticking at first , but it must have been doing something as have had on/off period type dragginess , sleep does seem to have improved . Still flushing but as i say only been couple days really ( and i notice now that when i have a funny five minutes , I usually flush afterwards !)
Anyway I'm feeling better every day ....much better than when I came home from docs and tried to get out of the car without undoing the seatbelt,.....
Well thats me so far , well done for sticking with it if you've got this far , sorry it wasnt meant to be so long !
Lemondrop xxx
