Hi everyone I'm new here.
So about a year ago I started with odd symptoms and thought I was either seriously ill or going round the twist. I'm only 40 (I was 39 at the time) so it never occurred to me it could be hormone related until my mum told me she was 40 when she started, went on HRT and by the time she came off it at 47 was completely done and dusted and come out the other side.
Over the past year I've had the following on and off:
Hot flushes,
Night sweats,
Finger numbness,
Itchy skin (no dryness, more like the skin crawling itching),
Heart palpitations when I'm trying to get to sleep,
Painful armpits (no swollen glands),
Achy joints and tendons,
Headaches,
Horrendous health anxiety (I've suffered from anxiety for years but this is another level!)
Crappy broken sleep for no good reason.
Painful breasts.
I've had mereva coils fitted for about 7 years and had no periods for years, then in the past year I've had quite a few, although I didn't have one in December and the one in January was kind of blink and you?ll miss it thing. I've also had ovulation pain so bad it woke me up and I've never had that before. In fact my daughter was conceived by IVF because I wasn't ovulating at all!
I went to my gp who tested my hormones along with everything else she could think of. It all came back fine apart from a slight calcium deficiency. She says my hormones were normal but acknowledged that I could still be peri as hormones are so up and down the blood test is unreliable. Then she said but it's not at the stage where we need to look at HRT and wanted to put me on anti depressants, to which I said no (for lots of reasons I won't go into).
So now I feel stuck, started taking evening primrose oil but it doesn't seem to be doing much. And today I've convinced myself that I've got lymphoma (thanks to dr google) and I'm going to die!
So I'm either peri, dying or just going crazy!