Hello ladies, I am new to the forum, but glad I found it as I feel so alone and frightened. I had breast cancer 9 years ago and I was also told before that, that I would be unable to take HRT when I had terrifying pins and needles and numbness after being prescribed the combined pill to balance my hormones after a bad miscarriage.
It has been 2 years since my last period and things were fine. My only symptoms were moodiness and a few hot flushes. However in January this year I became I'll with a labrynthitis type ear problem. This set off anxiety, panic attacks and depression. I was put on citalopram which made things a whole lot worse. I cut my dose down to 10mg and things were fine apart from the type of strange symtoms that you find hard to explain.
However the symptoms wax and wane and I never know how I will feel on any given day. I feel like my life is over.
All of them are symptoms of anxiety , menopause and labrynthitis.
It's like swimming in a whirlpool of anxiety constantly re feeding itself.
I have a wonderful husband and a teenage daughter who is amazing I can't keep putting them through seeing the wreck that I have become
In the darkest moments I just want to end it but my family keep me going.
I am no longer the person I was just a shell. Sorry to moan, just needed to vent to some kindred spirits.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
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Forgot to mention that my daughter started her periods in January -coincidence?