Hi girls, I just wanted to see if anyone else has been having more problems since being in either perimenopause, or menopause. I know I have been.

I am 42 and I don't know if I am in perimenopause (i think I am) but i suffer migraines and since the summer have felt tired in the day and don't sleep very well at night. i usually wake up around 4:00am. i am taking a saliva test to see if my hormones are out of balance and causing these symptoms. i recently watched Oprah and she was discussing all about this subject. it has really made me thing about hormones and how inbalances can affect the way we feel.

Yep, I am 37 and have been in menopause since November of 07. I had everything surgically removed. I had my uterus out first and five months later ended up having my ovaries out. I was on a hormone patch for about 6 months. A month before the surgery and 5 months afterwards. I was doing extremely well, I had a lot of depression leading up to the hysterectomy. Afterwards I was out of pain and dong well. Then in April of 08 I started a having really down days so they changed my estrogen to Premarin because my level was to low. I went off work in April because I became depessed, but the end of June I was really depressed and ( I was already taking antidepressants for a couple of years). By July I ended up in the hospital due to strong suicidal thoughts. I was in the hospital 4 times from July to October. The last time in the doctors took me off a lot of meds and started me on an maoi antidepressant. I was still and shortly after that I ordered the anxiety and depression program and here I am. I'm on week six now. It's helped a lot. The doctors felt that the hormones played a huge part in the depression, but again, I had some depression before the surgery. It got to the point where I felt no one could help me anymore and than I ordered Lucinda's program and I am doing better. I exercise everyday for an hour and that has helped me a lot. However, you have to be at that point. When I was so depressed I couldn't exercise, I couldn't do much at all. Hope this helps. I am doing better now. It's a combination of meds, exercise and the program.

Hi to both of you. I am in perimenopause, and I feel that it has made a big change in my mood swings, lack of sleeping, fogginess, and I also get night sweats sometimes at night. No hotflashes yet. I've asked several doctors about bio-identical hormones, but they all said no, they don't deal with that. I heard about the Oprah program on menopause etc. My sister told me about it. It would be nice to have a group of us ladies that not only have anxiety, panic attacks, depression OCD, or bipolar. But are also either in perimenopause, or in menopause. Maybe we could just have out own thread, and talk about issues that are specific to this time in our lives, andd be a support for each other. Any one out there who shares this with us, let me know what you think.
Hugs,
Hally

Right there with you ladies...I am 43 and wonder if a lot of this is not hormonal. I like the idea of a seperate thread for this.

Hi Beth, Glad to have another one one board!!!I agree, I think alot of this can be hormonal!!!I always wonder will it get better after totally passing through menopause!!!!
Hugs.
Hally

Hi Hally,
I actually pm'd Carolyn on Friday. Asking her if we could have our on Forum for this. Something permanent. I hav'nt heard back from her yet. I'm glad to see that you and the other Ladies feel the same(about our own forum). There have been sooo maney topics on this since I have been here. I told a women the other day on here about one GREAT topic. It's called "Ladies Help". I don't know if you've seen it or not. If you go under "Find"(at the top of this page) write in the topic and it should take you write to it. I tried to bump it back to the top the other day hoping it would stay current.
Hope that helps let's stick together on this one. I think it would helped so maney who are suffering.
Take-care

I, too, have dealt with and/or dealing with these issues. I am now 51. I started perimeno when I was 40 when I started having panic attacks after my father died. I do hope you will keep this thread or have your own link. It would be nice to share these issues.

Hi...I've recently learned that I am peri-menopausal. I was doing really well with managing anxiety. Went through the program about 5 years ago and it helped immensely. Anyway I'm having hormonal issues and I've started back with panic attacks but they are different then before. Now its like my heart is beating fast all of the time and then I get scared and go into a panic. Went to dr couple of days ago, had ekg said looks like I'm just anxious and hormonal. I'm having a very hard time trying to keep myself calm through this. I would love to be part of a group who is also dealing with this...

It's so nice to hear from all of you. We all have so much in common. I'll try to find the "ladies help" thread. I'm almost 50, and I think I started in perimenopause around my mid 40's or maybe earlier. I started with major panic attacks at 46. Stress has greatly contributed to my issues at that time. Let's hope we can get a special place on this forum for us ladies in our situation. Take care to all.
Hugs,
Hally

Hi, I am in my 40's and wonder if that is contributing also to my anxiety. I also have hashimotos hypothyroidism and know that has an effect with my hormones and panic attacks. Wonder also if there are other people with hypothyroidism and find they have anxiety and also wonder if there are people who have not had their thyroid checked, especially women-it may be contributing to your anxiety and you don't know. Thanks

Hi, I am almost 58. When I was in my early 50s I felt like I was 'coming out of my skin'. I lot of stressful things were happening at that time. I went to the dr. for help. She did a blood test and discovered I too was in perimenopause. It was the most uncomfortable feeling that I didn't seem to be able to control. Antidepressants and an anxiety med. that I only took when absolutely necessary helped, but... NOW I'm learning the tools from the taking the meds this past spring, but I'm also post menopause, chemo pushed me through the perimenopause stage. Survived breast cancer 4 years ago.

It was interesting reading all of the above. Today i am going to get more blood work done to see how my thyroid is doing as back at the end of last summer the T3 was low, also vit D. i am pretty sure this has effected my hormone levels. At least we are not alone in how we feel around this age and there is a reason for it. i will try to keep you all posted.

Hi Ladies:
I am turning 52 this month and am experiencing the same as all of you. It would be wonderful to have a support group. Please include me in this venture. Again, I'm sure there are many of us out there.

Thanks

Hi all, it looks like we have a pretty good group of us already, and I'm sure there are more to come. This is great!!!
BTW, I have had every test in the books, thyroid included, and after spending 1 month on an event monitor for the heart, having a VQ lung scan, many EKG's ,an electro cardiogram, a stress test with contrast MRI's, and many blood tests, including all the hormones. All they could tell me was panic anxiety disorder, perimenopause, General anxiety etc. It's good to rule out any extra health problems, but to me it really seems that if I had known I was in perimenopause , I might have been able to guess that things were worse because of that , Oh well, at least I got alot of tests done!!!
hugs,
Hally