Perimenopause, menopause 2023

Good afternoon! Thank you for creating this forum; there really are many pages here. I just hope everyone visits more often. Personally, the forum makes me feel better because the symptoms match, and it makes you think you're not alone.

I'm with you too 🤗

Thank you. Sometimes it gets really tough. The only thing that saves you is the forum. You realize you're not alone with your crazy thoughts and weaknesses.

Who takes what pills for occasional high blood pressure? For those with constant hypertension, it's all clear. But sometimes it's normal at 115/80, and once a week it spikes to 170/100. What should I do? I lower it myself with magnesium injections, Corvalol, and bisoprolol. Then I feel awful for two days. What does everyone else use in such a situation?

I found a topic, but not through search—I was scrolling through the new ones for the day. Maybe some new ones will pop in too)

I take Valaserdin, I've always had very low blood pressure in general, but it's started to spike sometimes. I take Valaserdin and it goes back to normal right away, but I think it's a panic attack.

When blood pressure spikes due to a panic attack, it just goes down with Corvalol. But if it's due to weather or osteochondrosis, it takes a long time, about an hour and a half, I can't bring it down with anything. I take both Capoten and Cardoflex, do magnesium and papaverine, take 40 drops of Corvalol. It varies. This started during perimenopause. My blood pressure is normally low. I'm 50 years old. Perimenopause for 7 years. I've already experienced everything. One symptom replaces another. I still have my menstrual cycle.

I'm also 50 and have been going through it since I was 43. There are many older colleagues at work and friends my age going through menopause, but it seems like I'm the only one with such ailments. If it weren't for the forum, I might think I'm the only one having such a difficult menopause. And there's no one like that in my close circle.

Seems like that's a bit much. Usually doctors recommend Moxonidine for such cases, and the smallest dose to see how it works. Or Captopril.

Hey girls, hello everyone! This topic is endless, since many have faced such a nightmare, please tell me, how are things with your GI tract? Everything is falling apart for me, either from the constant shaking or from the hormone dance, it's hard to handle all this psychologically, and on top of that all sorts of pains

I have problems with my GI tract too - sometimes pain, sometimes nausea, then bloating, then no appetite, or the opposite. I get my stomach checked with an endoscopy, everything is within normal limits, but I'm suffering. My stomach really reacts to stress.

I had it. At the very beginning of perimenopause. My intestines went crazy. And different pains, and twisting, and my stool became who knows what. Before, I didn't know what this was or how the stomach hurts, and I used to go to the bathroom on schedule. Now it's more or less settling down, but not completely. I haven't had periods for almost a year. Back then I totally didn't understand what was happening, there was insane fear and horror! I ran scared to get a colonoscopy. Well, and upper endoscopy is regular before colonoscopy.

They say that the mucous membranes of the intestines and stomach are sensitive to hormones, but when there are no hormones, atrophy begins. This process isn't just happening in the female organs but also in the GI tract. There's a huge mucous membrane there. And the tendency for colon cancer increases without estrogen. So what should we do? Sit on HRT until we're 90?

That's what I noticed - it's because of the hormones, this never used to happen before, but now it's one thing after another. I'm also sitting on the forum, thanks everyone

Girls. Menopause varies from person to person. But the gut can react to many things. And to vitamin deficiencies too. The very first thing is ferritin. I was told that those in menopause or after surgery need to take daily vitamin D constantly. And girls on websites here write about this too.

Don't stress yourself out. It can happen from pills too. When I self-diagnosed, I stopped taking the pills - turned out they weren't helping anyway. And I stopped burping and feeling nauseous.

And I've been in menopause for three years now. Perimenopause is a stage I've already passed. A lot has changed during menopause. Perimenopause and menopause can be very different, very much so.

Actually, it's already been 4 years

Constant bloating, and my mental state is also really bad. I'm on hormones

Why? On hormones, everything should get better, right!?

Svetlana, hello, how are you? My name is Tatyana, I'm chatting with you about Estrogel. Sometimes it seems okay, but then out of nowhere, anxiety comes for no reason. I'm taking the minimum dose as prescribed. My glycated hemoglobin went up, almost at the limit. They prescribed Siofor. Hormones are fluctuating, and you can even develop diabetes like that. Knock on wood, sometimes I'm irritable but more often anxious. I feel like crying and I cry inside somehow. So no one sees. It's hard, but we'll get through it, all this is temporary.

I'm also experiencing some weird things with my intestines—sometimes bloating, sometimes cramps, sometimes it's fine, and other times there's upset. I'm on HRT too, but it doesn't seem to help. I've tried probiotics as well, but I also think it might be due to hormonal fluctuations. I'm in perimenopause or menopause, I can't really tell anymore.

Well, in menopause you don't have periods anymore, but in perimenopause they still come.

Did you feel better in menopause?

A woman wrote on that forum that she started taking antidepressants and all her gastrointestinal problems and pain went away

So according to hormone tests, I shouldn't have periods. But I'm getting periods from my HRT. Maybe they're not adjusting it right, that's why I feel bad.

HRT is hard to get right.

It's very interesting to hear from women in postmenopause who have gone through perimenopause, menopause... etc. Which stage is the most difficult? Some feel bad at the beginning, while others didn't notice perimenopause but were hit hard when their periods had long stopped... Please share your experiences. I'm currently in perimenopause, with light and delayed periods...

Did it get easier for you?

Can you tell me how high blood pressure manifests itself? I always have low blood pressure, but tonight was some kind of nightmare - my head doesn't hurt, but my throat went numb, my back, my palms and soles are sweaty. I thought it was a panic attack, but this is the first time it's been like this - usually I just get hot and cold flashes, I quickly take some valerian and that's it, but this time there's even nausea for real

When my blood pressure rises, my hands and feet get cold, I start shivering and feel like I'm dizzy, and also get goosebumps running over my head and back. I start feeling unwell. I always get scared of this state too.

Yeah, my feet got cold at night too, then I got hot flashes, had a lump in my throat, and today it just happened to coincide with magnetic storms, plus my period is starting - basically a total nightmare

I'm 53, been going through this hell since 43, everyone around me is normal, working, but it's like I got knocked down all at once - my mental state, overall health, weakness and no energy to even conscientiously do housework, constantly dizzy, dragging myself through every minute, everything through sheer force.

Yeah, and at the beginning of perimenopause I ended up in a clinic, there were neurologists, therapists, they prescribed Mexidol, Actovegin and other zeros - didn't help me at all personally, it feels like they're just filling spots through compulsory health insurance, they give you a treatment plan but don't actually care about results, so to this day no one has helped with this condition except a psychiatrist, and even then just with a prescription for Atarax, didn't go through hell

When menopause hit at 52, I was still alive for another year, enjoying life, buying clothes and lipsticks, but at 53 everything... I had to go on antidepressants. I think it's for life. Many people expect that during menopause hormones will settle down. Yeah, they settle down to zero point shit, total estrogen deficiency begins, and the body starts falling apart. Everything started hurting - joints, bones, muscles, my neck wouldn't turn from the pain, shoulders and back became like stone. Dryness and atrophy of all mucous membranes, including the digestive tract. Hair started falling out, teeth too. All kinds of neuralgia began. And right on top of that came depression, fear, anxiety, insomnia, agoraphobia. That's menopause for you

The sensations can be different for everyone, not everyone experiences the same things. Many people with 180-200 (blood pressure) don't feel anything at all! So you always need to measure it.

Please describe how it is with your back and muscles, what kind of pains? My shoulders are literally burning, my neck muscle is pulling, it hurts under my left shoulder blade, intercostal neuralgia

I'm reading women in another group who are on HRT. Nothing really went away with their GI tract. And a bunch of other symptoms remain. One woman even took Femoston until she got a cyst, now they might have to do surgery

For me, it wasn't just a feeling of burning or pulling, but my whole body was stiff as a board. My shoulders, neck, and back are wooden and in spasm. Every movement is pain, pain. Everything through pain. Even my occipital muscles were so painful you couldn't touch them with a finger. I had neuralgias - both intercostal and in my tailbone, and my knees, hip joints, heels, elbows, fingers - everything hurt, shot pain, felt like nails. Even in my jaw joints, arthropathy appeared. I thought I was developing arthritis, I got so many examinations, spent an insane amount of money on various tests.

My feet got cold last night too, icy, had to use a heating pad, but zero effect. My head felt like cast iron, hurt badly, blood pressure 140/100, Capoten didn't help. Glycine didn't either. Phenibut didn't work, had insomnia. It was a horrible night.

Same here, my tailbone hurts when I sit, my heels burn, no hot flashes, but it really hit me in the bones.

I'm also 53, constantly dizzy and with headaches, antidepressants don't really work for me either. Got lots of vascular treatments at clinics too, zero effect. Hormones don't help me anymore either. Sitting here wondering what to do next.

But I've read about people who feel great on hormones. And my doctors told me. If it's Climax - you should feel better within 2-3 weeks. If not, you should try a different medication.

Everything you wrote is exactly about me. From the first to the last symptom. But I still have my cycle, I'm 50 years old, is it really going to get worse?! Almost nothing is left of my hair and teeth, muscles, bones, neck, back, constant anxiety, blood pressure spikes, neuralgia under my left shoulder blade, etc. etc. I guess it's time to start taking antidepressants.

No matter how many women I read, they write the same thing about neuralgia under the left shoulder blade, and mine specifically hurts on the left side, I wonder why

Same here, nightmare night, didn't sleep at all, my neck and head were stiff from behind, my feet were either sweating or freezing, now I'm completely exhausted

I still think the reason I'm having such a tough menopause is because I've always been a hypochondriac and prone to anxiety, which turned into neurosis. I probably also have autoimmune thyroiditis contributing to it. I'm ready to try anything that might help at this point. My periods weren't like this before, but now it's just awful. My PMS is severe too, while my mother didn't even notice her menopause.

Maybe it won't get worse for you. But I want to say that when preparing for menopause, antidepressants alone won't be enough anyway (if, for example, HRT isn't an option). Neurosis is neurosis, antidepressants can handle that, but the deficiencies of everything remain. So it's also important to find supportive solutions for yourself and take what resonates well with your body. Maybe for you it'll be some supplements, or herbal complexes, of course vitamins are a must. You need to find what works for you, so you can build a supportive regimen, in addition to antidepressants. For those who can take HRT, it's of course easier, since hormones are the foundation, the basis. Because even the absorption of vitamins and all beneficial substances happens more easily and completely when there are female sex hormones in the body. Without hormones, everything is much more difficult.

Yeah, there are many like that with similar situations, the symptoms don't go away and sometimes even get worse, but there are also plenty who go through it almost symptom-free both in perimenopause and already in menopause. It's all very individual. So not everyone suffers.

Girls, if glycine helps anyone at all (and that's very few people), it's only as a placebo effect, nothing more. A neurologist explained that it, glycine, doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, so it absolutely cannot help as a medication. Just sharing this info with you.