we'd already booked when peri hit me.. :-/ although thinking of down scaling it now.. but wont make a decision for another month or so... once ive settled down... if u dont mind me asking what were your symptoms ? x lynne
If Peri ?
I was fine (loving life, great social life, petite size
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quite confident (more than I had been in years) when one day (literally) I got dizzy at work and my heart was racing, and I couldn't remember how to do my work, things got worse, I got weaker and weaker , gum disease started rapidly, I honestly didn't recognise myself and went up to a size 12/14 :-(
They did lots of tests, b12 came back low and was told I had arrhythmia and some hearing loss and my hormone tests were showing peri menopause (I had hysterectomy years ago and been on max oestrogen 16 years) so couldn't get my head round why was it affecting me so suddenly and rapidly ? I'm still not convinced it's fully down to meno
March this year I hit a dip again, tinnitus , heart, asthma very bad , my skin has gone saggy, hair thinning, and I had UTIs one after the other so I was put on vagifem and that cured that and gradually bits of the old me are coming back but I'm kind of prepared (in a way) for relapses. Terrible crashing fatigue but again last few weeks that's lifted.
My symptoms are so many to list but they're the ones that have knocked me the most and lost me my little bit of confidence I did have
Annie xx