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Early rapid aging in twenties- severe insomnia
I'm only TWENTY-EIGHT!!! This is soooo sad... I shouldn't be relating to women in their fifities and sixties now at my age. :(
I'm not joking... in the past two years.. I've slowly developed it all... the slightly crepey skin and wrinkles inside the elbow crease, all the loose bunched up crepey skin on the outside of the elbow, skin has totally thinned on my hands- veins stick out (same with my feet), my feet has such loose crepey skin and are so wrinkled I can pull the skin on them pretty good, I have jowls, wrinkles under my eyes, getting wrinkles between the nose, three lines/wrinkles on forehead, lips are lined/ lost volume, boobs dropped and shrank, I get those neck things when I smile, butt dropped and lost firmness, bat wings, wrinkled knees, tons of hair loss, etc.! I am not over-exaggerating.
It all started about two years ago when I didn't sleep for about 8 days. During those days, (it was a few months after I had a baby), I had a nine day period! Ever since I've been getting bad sleep- sleep study showed mostly only broken up light sleep (no deep beauty sleep) and a few hours a night. I would also periodically go another day or so without any sleep. And then I went another ten days w/o any! About a month into this crazy insomnia, my period got light and started coming every two weeks. I also definitely started getting hot flashes and many other symptoms of perimenopause. My insomnia gave me very high cortisol levels which I've heard can cause early menopause. I'm wondering if that is what this is or its my thyroid?
For about the first year, I just noticed a few wrinkles and age spots on my face, wrinkled hands and feet, slightest facial sagging- I could still cover everything with makeup and just looked about 8 years older than I did before. (I looked basically my age or two years older) Then, it started to get bad.. someone asked if I was sad and I wasn't... I just looked like I had a frown! My boobs sagged, etc. Makeup- I dont even wear it anymore- it dosent help. Literally, every few weeks, I had new lines/wrinkles.
I'm trying to fix my sleep, but in the meantime, I want to try to hold on to some of my looks. My family dosent understand... I'm not being selfish at all... I don't think that any woman my age would handle this well or accept it. Especially when I looked YOUNGER than my age before. Right before, guys told me I looked 17! (I was 26.) My whole family looks ten years younger than they are. I've always taken care of myself too- ate healthy, exercised, slept 9 or 10 hours. I used to love buying cute outfits and looking cute and now I can't do that anymore. The worst part is now my facial sagging and loss of elasticity is so bad- I look like I'm sad and frowning and I'm not!! I also look angry (because my face is constantly making that expression where your trying to sleep and when you can't every night for two years has given me those wrinkles!)
This is very hard for someone who used to constantly smile and loves people.. to not look pretty or approachable. You women are in your 50s and 60s and its hard enough to deal with the body changes THEN whey they are supposed to happen! Why should a twenty something have to go though this? :( There has got to be some way to stall it while I work on getting my insomnia fixed.
Do you ladies have any advice?? Does this sound like perimenopause? My periods have gotten less and less days, lighter and lighter... barely existant now. The sagging and loss of elasticity has gotten extreme the past few months.. my jowls are bad. Is that sound like peri? I showed someone a photo of me with a regular expression.. not smiling. They said, oh you look nice and ugly! They were convinced I was frowning, but I wasn't. :(
Should I go on a birth control pill or do bioidentical hormones? Has anyone tried human growth hormone? Would that thicken the skin and make me look a little younger? (I forgot to mention- people now call me a "lady"- I look like I'm in my late forties) If I can ever get my sleep back to normal, I've definitely considered getting a facelift and fx, but I would have to get a boob job to lift my boobs, butt lift, etc. :( Its so depressing. I had a great young figure before and now its gone.
ANY advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!!! Just be thankful you arent in my position. I need to look good to feel good about myself and be a good mom.
I'm not joking... in the past two years.. I've slowly developed it all... the slightly crepey skin and wrinkles inside the elbow crease, all the loose bunched up crepey skin on the outside of the elbow, skin has totally thinned on my hands- veins stick out (same with my feet), my feet has such loose crepey skin and are so wrinkled I can pull the skin on them pretty good, I have jowls, wrinkles under my eyes, getting wrinkles between the nose, three lines/wrinkles on forehead, lips are lined/ lost volume, boobs dropped and shrank, I get those neck things when I smile, butt dropped and lost firmness, bat wings, wrinkled knees, tons of hair loss, etc.! I am not over-exaggerating.
It all started about two years ago when I didn't sleep for about 8 days. During those days, (it was a few months after I had a baby), I had a nine day period! Ever since I've been getting bad sleep- sleep study showed mostly only broken up light sleep (no deep beauty sleep) and a few hours a night. I would also periodically go another day or so without any sleep. And then I went another ten days w/o any! About a month into this crazy insomnia, my period got light and started coming every two weeks. I also definitely started getting hot flashes and many other symptoms of perimenopause. My insomnia gave me very high cortisol levels which I've heard can cause early menopause. I'm wondering if that is what this is or its my thyroid?
For about the first year, I just noticed a few wrinkles and age spots on my face, wrinkled hands and feet, slightest facial sagging- I could still cover everything with makeup and just looked about 8 years older than I did before. (I looked basically my age or two years older) Then, it started to get bad.. someone asked if I was sad and I wasn't... I just looked like I had a frown! My boobs sagged, etc. Makeup- I dont even wear it anymore- it dosent help. Literally, every few weeks, I had new lines/wrinkles.
I'm trying to fix my sleep, but in the meantime, I want to try to hold on to some of my looks. My family dosent understand... I'm not being selfish at all... I don't think that any woman my age would handle this well or accept it. Especially when I looked YOUNGER than my age before. Right before, guys told me I looked 17! (I was 26.) My whole family looks ten years younger than they are. I've always taken care of myself too- ate healthy, exercised, slept 9 or 10 hours. I used to love buying cute outfits and looking cute and now I can't do that anymore. The worst part is now my facial sagging and loss of elasticity is so bad- I look like I'm sad and frowning and I'm not!! I also look angry (because my face is constantly making that expression where your trying to sleep and when you can't every night for two years has given me those wrinkles!)
This is very hard for someone who used to constantly smile and loves people.. to not look pretty or approachable. You women are in your 50s and 60s and its hard enough to deal with the body changes THEN whey they are supposed to happen! Why should a twenty something have to go though this? :( There has got to be some way to stall it while I work on getting my insomnia fixed.
Do you ladies have any advice?? Does this sound like perimenopause? My periods have gotten less and less days, lighter and lighter... barely existant now. The sagging and loss of elasticity has gotten extreme the past few months.. my jowls are bad. Is that sound like peri? I showed someone a photo of me with a regular expression.. not smiling. They said, oh you look nice and ugly! They were convinced I was frowning, but I wasn't. :(
Should I go on a birth control pill or do bioidentical hormones? Has anyone tried human growth hormone? Would that thicken the skin and make me look a little younger? (I forgot to mention- people now call me a "lady"- I look like I'm in my late forties) If I can ever get my sleep back to normal, I've definitely considered getting a facelift and fx, but I would have to get a boob job to lift my boobs, butt lift, etc. :( Its so depressing. I had a great young figure before and now its gone.
ANY advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!!! Just be thankful you arent in my position. I need to look good to feel good about myself and be a good mom.
2 years ago I passed for a teenager . I am a teacher and often would get mistaken for a student. Then everything changed and I now look way older than I am . My face had dropped , it is saggy and porous and I feel like I never want to leave the house again. The only explanation I have got this change is that I started taking multi vitamin supplements and can pinpoint the change to this. No one will believe me and no one can help . I feel sucicidal and do not know what yo do , help !
2 years ago I passed for a teenager . I am a teacher and often would get mistaken for a student. Then everything changed and I now look way older than I am . My face had dropped , it is saggy and porous and I feel like I never want to leave the house again. The only explanation I have got this change is that I started taking multi vitamin supplements and can pinpoint the change to this. No one will believe me and no one can help . I feel sucicidal and do not know what yo do , help !
Just read about your situation. I am 44 but currently going through almost exactly as you described. All of it came about suddenly ( within 2 years time)
Just wondering if you have found anything that helped the issues with your skin. I am so frustrated!!
Just wondering if you have found anything that helped the issues with your skin. I am so frustrated!!
I think you may have body dismorphia, what you feel isn't how any person should feel about them selves. I've been told by doctors that I have got it, although its hard because you can only see someone hideous in the Mirror and it is almost impossible to believe that it may be more how you think of yourself .... I have felt the the same since having my daughter 8 years ago, I am now 28 and I feel that I have the skin on an 50 year old, I feel disgusting and felt like it since she was born .... But have learned to manage it to not affect my daughter which is hard, working helps keep my mind of it but it's still always there in the background. Anti depressants helped but also made me feel numb which I did not like... I now have facials such as microdermabrasion and I go to the gym four times a week, this helps quite abit. ...... I'm sure you will find away to be happy again xx
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She doesn't thabk body dysmorphia, you aren't the judge in people feelings...what shouldn't be happening is aging effects at her age..and that's it..her feelings on the matter do not warrant mental healthy accusations...so sick of people throwing the bdd diagnosis at everyone who gives a damn about hoe they look
TNGirl615--
Please google 'acromegaly'.
Have you ever had your growth hormone (GH) level checked? GHRH, ACTH, TSH, or cortisol?
A recent CT/MRI scan of your head, chest, or abdomen?
I don't want to alarm you--but it sounds like you might have a pituitary tumor that is producing too much growth hormone....
Problems w adrenal glands, lungs, or pancreas can also lead to similar symptoms (hyperpigmentation, acromegaly, skin changes, chronic fungal infections, menstrual changes)
Call your doctor please, get checked, treated if that's the problem. Your life will change, for the better!
Please google 'acromegaly'.
Have you ever had your growth hormone (GH) level checked? GHRH, ACTH, TSH, or cortisol?
A recent CT/MRI scan of your head, chest, or abdomen?
I don't want to alarm you--but it sounds like you might have a pituitary tumor that is producing too much growth hormone....
Problems w adrenal glands, lungs, or pancreas can also lead to similar symptoms (hyperpigmentation, acromegaly, skin changes, chronic fungal infections, menstrual changes)
Call your doctor please, get checked, treated if that's the problem. Your life will change, for the better!
Hello, I have been reading all of these posts and I would like to share what has helped me. I have started taking a desiccated liver powder [dried liver] in a glass of water at least once everyday, and I have started the GAPS diet. If you don't know what GAPS is, look it up. It is a healing protocol that clears up everything from allergies to anxiety. Side effect if you look younger and your skin heals, plumps up. I was going to get filler under my eyes. After the liver, I looked in the mirror one day and they were gone. All plumped up on their own. Our bodies can heal. I truly believe that signs of 'aging' are signs that something is wrong. A healthy body looks beautiful and glows.
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