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Anxiety with premature menopause
I started a premature meno or premature ovarian failure aged 39 and have now been told I'm in the final year of meno thank god. No periods for 3 mths and my blood tests show post meno ranges. But I suffer with the most awful anxiety that comes out of the blue for no reason and is crippling. It is usually on the days that I also have hot flashes and night sweats, palpitations, mood swings etc. but nevertheless I just cannot seem to control it using anything. Tabs, relaxation, hypnosis etc you name it I've tried it. It's not like normal anxiety eg. exam nerves. You just cannot seem to control it like you can with normal anxiety. I absolutely hate it and it's taken me away from running a business to having no confidence at all. I just want to know if anyone gets this in the last year of menopause and if so does it finally end when you finish meno completely. I would be very grateful for anyones help here. Thank you.
Well, I feel like I have a PhD in hormones now after 7 years of research (I do have a PhD but in Behavioral Science) :) Maybe this will help!
I too had extreme mental, emotional and physical symptoms the last 5 years of pre menopause with the final year being the worst. I finally got the hormone therapy down as it's a delicate dance to get each day's dosage accurate. You really have to be in tune with your body and know when your new cycle begins and ends. Yes we still have a chemical cycle even though we no longer ovulate. I too started in my late thirties and finally ended in my late forties.
Get yourself on a hormone therapy that works for you. Balance it out by asking your doctor for the highest dosage of estrogen and progesterone and take a quarter at first... then regulate it based on your cycle if you are regular and if you're not, you'll soon know. (Then offsetting them with natural homeopathic creams or bio-identical prescriptions) (you're body will absorb the creams/bio-identicals much faster than western meds - estrogen (estrogen/premerin will take a day or two and last a couple of days so it could be great one day and too much the next which will create the identical symptoms as before - progesterone/prevera will take a couple of hours and only last a day and may help you sleep so take at night - creams will take a couple of hours - bio-identicals will be the fastest for your body to absorb so take that into consideration when altering your dosage. There is never "one size fits all")
Day one of your cycle will is the first day you would have normally started your period. This is when your estrogen would peak and gradually taper. Day 21 is when your progesterone would spike and peaking through day 28. So I would take more progesterone and less estrogen from day through day 15 and gradually switch them to more estrogen and less progesterone through day 16-28. This helped a lot.
Also look at DHEA and the HGH if you're so inclined. You can manage this... you can get back to being yourself again... back to you... (Jeez, I sound like a commercial. hehehe)
GL
Shelby
I too had extreme mental, emotional and physical symptoms the last 5 years of pre menopause with the final year being the worst. I finally got the hormone therapy down as it's a delicate dance to get each day's dosage accurate. You really have to be in tune with your body and know when your new cycle begins and ends. Yes we still have a chemical cycle even though we no longer ovulate. I too started in my late thirties and finally ended in my late forties.
Get yourself on a hormone therapy that works for you. Balance it out by asking your doctor for the highest dosage of estrogen and progesterone and take a quarter at first... then regulate it based on your cycle if you are regular and if you're not, you'll soon know. (Then offsetting them with natural homeopathic creams or bio-identical prescriptions) (you're body will absorb the creams/bio-identicals much faster than western meds - estrogen (estrogen/premerin will take a day or two and last a couple of days so it could be great one day and too much the next which will create the identical symptoms as before - progesterone/prevera will take a couple of hours and only last a day and may help you sleep so take at night - creams will take a couple of hours - bio-identicals will be the fastest for your body to absorb so take that into consideration when altering your dosage. There is never "one size fits all")
Day one of your cycle will is the first day you would have normally started your period. This is when your estrogen would peak and gradually taper. Day 21 is when your progesterone would spike and peaking through day 28. So I would take more progesterone and less estrogen from day through day 15 and gradually switch them to more estrogen and less progesterone through day 16-28. This helped a lot.
Also look at DHEA and the HGH if you're so inclined. You can manage this... you can get back to being yourself again... back to you... (Jeez, I sound like a commercial. hehehe)
GL
Shelby
So sorry to hear that you are feeling so bad. I thought I was going through the menopause ok then about 3 months ago I got hit by the same feelings that you are having - as well as crying a lot. I tried a couple of things like ativan which helped me sleep as the anxiety was causing insomnia and some herbal treatments to calm me down, they worked sometimes and not others. I have a new doctor now and he suggested I tried St John's Wort and I have been on that for about 10 days, the last couple have been a lot better, some of the symptoms like my heart racing and the horrid feeling in my stomach have subsided and I am feeling a lot more able to cope. I am also on prometrium and that has probably contributed to the improvement. I have to get some blood tests done, including one for thyroid problems as he thought that may be contributing to the feelings. I don't know when it will stop but it does get better! And a good cry sometimes helps - I am just trying not to do it in public any more!!
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