Hello, I'm Helen, I'm 43 and very cheesed off!! So spoke with Gp back in November and he did blood test as my mums periods stopped when she was 44 and mine started to go haywire with the odd missed one a year ago plus my dreadful moods, rages (at myself mostly) depression, lack of self esteem, tiredness, palpitations etc. Results were not peri FSH levels were high. I've been struggling since and also have no libido, lack of confidence at work and socially, have withdrawn away from friends and feel so lonely, periods lighter but used to be 28 apart now all over the place, skin terrible. I have white heads, rosacea, and big hard angry lumps crop up. Now I'm getting lots of pelvic twinges, everything feels irritated and tender (ruination wise) plus when I have managed to persuade myself to get busy with poor long suffering hubby I get pain and cramps for a couple of days afterwards. Soooooo, I'm so sorry for letting it all out at once and my first post! I battle with super low iron levels and am on thyroxine for under active thyroid and go prescribed bit d in winter which helped get me out of terrible downer over Christmas but I just need to know if all these things could really be going peri menopause? Would I be better seeing a female dr?
Many thanks if you got this far! Hx