Oh its a LONG story! Aren't they all? lol
Age 49
Ill do bullet points
1 - Perimenopause for 9 years. Started off BAD anxiety..... almost thought I was having a breakdown. It gradually eased up some months better than others but anxiety and depression were never a real consistent symptom....more night sweats, a little anxiety but fixed to situations (Phobias) insomnia a few nights... snappy, demotivated and the rest but more or less manageable .
2) I am not managing anymore....I have severe DEEP waves of depression lasting a few hours where I cannot interact with anything or anyone till it passes. Anxiety to varying degrees, not about anything specific just a horrible feeling of anxiety were I cannot focus on anything... .. and the symptom that TRULY scares me is the feeling of being in a dream...I believe they call it "derealisation" like I am locked inside a dream kind of...nothing seems real..My GOD....that's the closest thing to insanity I have felt. I felt high but not in a good way...
.Loud TV can bother me, sensitivity to light, colours seem more vivid and they all wax and wane. Oddly I have been sleeping like the dead recently...
They come and go but they happen enough that I am in fear of them now... when i wake in the morning I feel like anything could happen that day.... so of course it affects your overall confidence in life and yourself.
It's been a month since I have felt these new and intense symptoms and in that month I have had 3 periods. Yes 3! I am using progesterone (prescribed) have dome for years and years.... so I only bleed lightly and for 24 hours but I get all of the PMT build up to each one..
I have some theories as to why they have popped up and that relates to making myself physically sick taking liver detox supplements and some powerful probiotics that just did not agree with me and I ended up sick in bed... I am getting stronger physically since I stopped taking the liver detox and probiotics, but the DP anxiety and spaced out feelings are still there at varying degrees .
I don't want to take HRT if there's a chance these feelings will pass....either of their own accord or because the supplements have left my body and everything has settled down...maybe I have stirred my hormones up by taking the supplements? I just think its too much of a coincidence that I ended up this way following taking them and them not agreeing with me.
I am having private blood tests done this friday for HRT levels and Thyroid....heard both are useless but we will see
Question is
Have any ladies had a BAD BAD month that scared the HELL out of them and it gradually passed without intervention?
Many Thanks
Liz xx