leg weekness, wobbly head and eyes

[Anne56]

The last 6 months have been challenging to say the least.  Every test in the book I have been given.  The last is a spinal tap for ms.  I am really scared.  My legs are week and feel disconnected to my body at times.  I also have anxiety attacks even with enjoyable situations.  I walk my dogs in the morning thinking this will help relieve the stress but come back exhausted, weak legs, wobbly head and with little will to continue the day.  The smallest thing can turn me upside down.  This started about two months ago.  My legs started feeling heavy then weak.  Hot flashes, anxiety attacks are more evident at night.  I sometimes can't even see straight and feel nautious.  Now I am at the point were I dread starting the day knowing a long day is ahead of me with little activity I feel comfortable doing.  I love to garden, paint etc....My head gets heavy, legs  weak, eyes don't seem to want to focus right and I end up on the couch or bed.  Yuk!!!  Is this menopause?  Does anybody else have these symptoms and what do you do?  Why do perfectly once enjoyable tasks seem a hardship???  

[Anne56]

Hi Melanie,
Thanks so much for getting back with me.  It really helps to read your daily routine.  I don't want anybody to feel so crummy that they have a hard day but it does help me to feel like I am not alone.  Like you...if I get up in the morning and get going I am much better but I have to take a million breaks and just sit down and regroup.  Sometimes it is back in bed.  I had good intentions this  morning grocery shopping but anxiety took over and I couldn't put one foot in front of the other.  My husband has  been a blessing too.  I feel bad for him and apologize all the time.  I don't want visitors either and sometimes to just talk on the phone is difficult.
I would love to e-mail you but your e-mail address came back as ***@****.  Let me give you mine to see if we can connect.  ***@****
Thanks again for your reply.  Friends who are not feeling these symptoms give me all kind of encouragement like....join a yoga class....get a new hobby....take a trip.  Ugh!!!!  I just want to get thru the day!!!
Anne56

[Anne56]

Hi Melanie,
I just wanted to let you know that I use to  groom dogs also.  I did it in my young twenties and loved it.  I never got back to it because of other life changes but it was fun and very rewarding.  I hope someday you will be able to return to it full time if that is what you choose.  My husband asked me last night what I wanted to do when I feel better.  I said.....everything!!! then started to cry.  I have been waking up in the middle of the night with panic attacks.  Right out of a sound sleep!!!  I too am heading to the docs at the end of this month to see what other options I have.  Like you...I think is there something really wrong?  When am i going to fall to pieces or collapse and then they will discover I have such and such.  
Please hang in there with me.  We will get through this and celebrate when it is done.  It will be done soon too!!!!  I keep telling myself that.  The hard thing is that it is not like a cold and you feel each day you are getting better.  Yesterday I had a somewhat decent day and then boom today I am not good at all.  For me that is what is so not fun.  Do you ever get breaks and feel like your old self? I have had hotflashes for the past two to three years off and on.  Not too bad.  I missed some sleep.  A month ago this hit like overnight and has continued since.  Somedays my spirit is better than others but mostly it is the same each day.  Anxiety, can't see right, weak legs...etc. Tell me more about you if you don't mind.
Anne56

[snowflake1958]

Hi Anne.
I guss it wont let us leave E mail adresses on this board so i sent you a Private message and added you as a friend so you should be able to get it that way.
For me ive been sick since January with a chronic sinus infection and Peri satarted at the same tiem i think so i was never really suer what symptom went with what. I had sinus surgery May 3rd and when i didnt feel better afterwards(or only slightly) i realised all this was hormones. Its gotten worse i feel I dotn have any good days really. If i do its very brief and it can change i a minute. Its very disheartening .It really takes your life away. I to had the hot flahses for several years but nothign to bad and no other symptoms and this hit me like it did you...just all of a sudden..its like every hormone in your body just up and left and your body doeant know how to react.Let me know if you get my message and E mail address

[robinbyrd1963]

I am going through that now. Its been over a year. Drs cant figure it out. I have so many symptoms. I am 47 & my life has stopped. Every minute of every day & night I suffer. No one understands. I cant work or do normal stuff. I just want to lay down & die. I am normally a happy people person,but this takes me away from people. I see my bed more than anything. I just got on here the other day. Wow, so many people going through what I go through. I am not crazy after all. I am going to specialist in two weeks & beg for hormone testing. This is my final straw. Cant hold on anymore. Hope you get the help you need.

[allgirls3]

are you still out there? I just started having these same issues. I need help. Did you make it thru? What helped/ didnt help?  

[Anne56]

Yes I am making it but more than anything try not to be anxious about your symptoms and what is going on...it makes it worse.  The first three months of all this was to say the least, easy but as time goes on and you get closer to your first year of no periods it gets better.  Try not to eat sugar, caffeine or alcohol.  This will make your symptoms much worse.  I had a saliva test and urine test to find out what levels my hormones were.  My estrogen was fine but my progesterone was at the bottom of the scale.  If you can tell yourself that is the reason and not fret it makes it easier.  Also avoid stress at all cost.
It is madening that docs do not know more about this but they do not.