Need to pick your brains!

desertrat · Post by **desertrat** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 6:28 pm

Help! When I was diagnosed with MC two years ago, I was also diagnosed with peri/menopause. Since strangely enough they both had similar symptoms (bloating, D, aches, etc.) it was difficult to know which symptom was which. MC or menopause? Well, I've got the MC under control...normans, etc. and I've managed (barely lol) with bioidentical hormones to keep my peri/menopause under control.

However, in the last month or so, I've been experiencing an increasing amount of symptoms. It seems like everyday I wake up, my body aches either all over, or in my elbows, lower back, or knees. I feel jittery, then hot, then tired. Sinus pressure, ears stuffy, small headache. Heart palps and chest pressure are a new symptom and very aggravating! I've also noticed my GI symptoms increasing...upset stomach, queasy, and no appetite.

So here is the weird thing. The symptoms waxes and wanes throughout the day and then around early evening....bam! It goes away! Completely! I feel fine! My body doesn't ache, I'm hungry, I have energy! What the heck?!

I'm getting nervous about it being a return of MC, and yet, does this sound like MC to you? I am GF, DF, etc, 95% of my blood work is perfect (except cortisol, ferritin and seretonin and dopamine). I fall asleep easily, but wake up with racing thoughts. I can't think of what the heck this is! Estrogen fluctuations? Low cortisol, high cortisol? Thyroid?

So has anyone experienced what I've been going through? As I type, early evening (530 pm) I can start to feel the symptoms fade away! So bizarre!

Please tell me it's not MC raising its ugly head!

Color me confused Mandy

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:10 pm

Ah, peri menopause can be very tricky because our hormone levels affects so many things. I too am in it and was suffering from night sweats every night on the hour. I started taking an herbal remedy. It worked and my night sweats disappeared.... then ( after about a month) my MC symptoms started to get worse. At first, I didn't put two and two together, but after I stopped the herbal pills, I slowly got better again. Luckily, my peri symptoms haven't returned. I ave been going through this for years now and I can say that all of the symptoms of peri-menopause wax and wane. ... it's weird that it goes away like that. Have you tried changing the time of day you take the bioidenticals?

Leah

desertrat · Post by **desertrat** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:43 pm

I was told by my PA that taking bio-identicals at night helped with sleep. I tried taking them around the morning and it made me so tired I had to take a nap. Out of curiosity, I called the compounding pharmacist and he confirmed that the progesterone has a calming effect and to take it at night.

I've heard that some women take half at night and half during the day. Interesting idea, one I might try.

Yes, peri is a pain. Try doing it when you're 58! Yep. My PA said I was one of those who still could have babies at 58. Lucky, lucky me.

Hopefully, it will subside soon. I just need a full twelve months of no periods. Every time I almost hit that year mark, I get a surprise visit and I have to start all over again.

I wonder how many women on this board are going through the same thing? MC and Menopause together. I think we should get a special award for that!

Mandy

mcnomore · Post by **mcnomore** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:00 pm

Just thought I'd let you know, as someone who has already gone through Menopause, that some people never get any symptoms at all and I am one of them. I just stopped getting my periods.

I think I would be careful of letting a doc tell me that my symptoms are due to peri or menopause without checking for further causes. My hope is that you feel better soon.

brandy · Post by **brandy** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:21 pm

Hi Mandy,

I agree with the last poster. I suffered from extreme memory issues for a year at age 51 (also w/ MC). Every doc just brushed me off that it was menopause and I was laughed at too. The women medical professionals were the worst. Hormones helped maybe 20% but it wasn't until I took the absorbable B's that my memory issues cleared up in three days and brain fog cleared up in a week. My body was just not absorbing/getting enough B vitamins to function due to the MC.

I wouldn't necessarily assume your symptoms are menopause. Keep seeking. Brandy

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:18 am

I too am one who never really had any menopausal symptoms other than an occasional night sweat. Had total hysterectomy at 50 and I was OK after that until MC reared its ugly head. Have never taken any menopause supplements.

Maggie

LindyLou · Post by **LindyLou** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:38 am

Many medical professionals have wanted to label my symptoms as being related to going through menopause. I now have the blood work to prove I'm post menopausal and bring them with me to every doctors appointment. It gets harder to brush me off when I have actual lab values to beck me up.

Love,
Linda

carolm · Post by **carolm** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:44 am

Mandy, are you sure you arent' getting glutened somehow? Maybe some cross contamination going on? The reason I say that is that your symptoms sound more like MC to me. I am through menopause. Symptoms getting better during the day? I am like that every day, even when I was in a flare my mornings were rough and let up as the day goes on. I am much more energetic in the evenings even now than I am in the morning and all that started with LC.

I will ache all over if I eat peanuts or peanut butter and I react strongly to soy so I avoid legumes all together. Is it possible that you've developed a sensitivity to something you are ingesting?

keep digging,

Carol