Perimenopause Anxiety

[Annie1974]

Im 46 and recently started perimenopause my dr started me on HRT but it sent me into severe anxiety problems, so I stopped the HRT. I also have PMDD which is fun during perimenopause. I started on anti anxiety meds this week.
My anxiety manifests itself quite physically
Cold flushes
Ice cold feet and hands
Horrid pit in my stomach
Feeling like a ballooon is being pumped up in my chest
Pins and needles
Muscle twitches
Thoughts of doom
Worry over my health
Social worries
Anxiety/panic attacks
Breathing troubles
Vision problems blurry, aura headaches
Extreme tiredness
Probably so many more
I have been to the Dr so many times in the last 2 months and besides low thyroid function they cant find anything wrong with me. Perimenopause it is. Really interested in others going through perimenopause/menopause suggestions, good strategies that help make you feel calmer. I dont have hot flushes yet just generally feel the heat.
Thank you

[chociloni]

Hi, I sortof have something like this. I am 43. I now have pmt symptoms around 2 weeks before my period, and get intensely sore breasts. About 3 cycles ago I went through the craziest anxiety I've had in a long time. It has calmed down now quite a bit and I'm taking stuff from a naturopath. Apparently you need to take the herbs for 2 cycles before it's completely healed.

[SD0102]

Hi, I’m 47 and believe I am going through peri menopause as well.

When COVID started earlier in the year I suffered really bad anxiety, I wasn’t coping well and ended up going to my GP, who gave me some medication to help the anxiety.

After a couple of months I stopped taking the medication as I was coping really well and the possible side effects really scared me. I also started to assess the changes in me over the last 12 months, and did a lot of reading about peri menopause.

I believed the changes in my body, like the extreme breast tenderness, changes in my period, being very emotional, crying at the drop of a hat, night sweats, feeling the heat more so than usual, the occasional flushes, and the feelings of not coping & the anxiety, were more related to peri menopause, and that Covid was just the icing on the cake.

The last few weeks, the feelings of not coping & the anxiety, and being very teary are starting to increase again. I’m hoping it’s just the time of the year, with the pressures of the holiday season upon us.

I don’t know whether I did the right thing with stopping the medication for anxiety or not, or whether to look into something more natural for menopause symptoms. I do have some stuff I got off a naturopath for anxiety that I was taking until I saw my GP before. I’m not keen to try HRT yet I think ?

If things don’t get better after Christmas, I think I’ll need to go back to my GP and try and sort out what I should do.

I just hate feeling like this. The joys of the next stage in a woman’s life.

SD

[Annie1974]

My first experience with HRT was not great but in doing some research have found that im super sent to progesterone which is the hormone present in the days after ovulation. Im going to talk to my dr to see if there are alternatives.
I hate the side effects of the anti anxiety meds im on, they are making me more anxious.

[Thinking_never_stops]

Omg. This sounds literally like I am the one writing this. I have suffered anxiety during my life,panick attacks etc,back in the day I just thought I was dying.took many years of taking notice of my body to relize it was linked to my hormones. Took anxiety medication till the day I leed as thats when I literally love everyone prior to hating everyone. Just like you perimenopause has been hell. Bloating..like 2 to 3 kilos ,keep thinking im getting fatter then I bleed,good the sore boots anxiety,literally some days feel insane.i think it is totally exasperated at this time of life. Some woman just stop . I wish. Stop for three months literally felt like my whole body was on fire for weeks,added to that ckvid happened in between. I just wish this roller coaster would end. All bloods done absolutely nothing wrong apart from fibroids in the uterus from ultrasound. Tried st johns wort but just have to try and clean eat yoga exercise ,God when I can be bothered then last resort very low dose of anxiety meds which is prescribed for pmdd . Worst thing with this though absolutely no sexual feeling what so ever.

[Thinking_never_stops]

Hello. How did you go and what have you tried since your last post?