Hi everyone. I'm fairly new here, but I just needed someone to listen to how I'm feeling. I think I've been in peri for about 5 years, but this last year all the symptoms have really ramped up a gear. I don't know if it's because of the situation in general or hormonal...or a bit of both. I've had, what feels like, every symptom known to man over the last 5 years, but what's really getting to me at the moment is digestion and continual aches and pains. Over the last four weeks I've been suffering badly with what I'm being told is IBS. I think I've always had IBS, just never sought any help for it and put up with it. My bowels have been on and off, hard to go one day, far too easy the next
, I've got aches and pains all over my stomach and lower abdo area. My back is killing me as well. I went to the doctor and she did a stool sample (clear), CA125 blood test (okay) and full blood count. The only thing iffy was my glucose was a bit high, my LFT is a bit high, my folic acid is low and my Vit D is through the floor. She's put me on various things and ordered a repeat blood test for 6 weeks. My stomach and bowels are still sore, pains, alternating loose and hard to go. I rang doc again last week and it feels she's really unsympathetic. I've suffered a lot with my health anxiety over the last few years, and it feels like because of that she's 'fobbing' me off. She organised a face to face with another GP to have a feel of my tummy, and she said she couldn't feel anything of concern, and she thinks the pain in my right side is muscle pain.
My health anxiety is kicking in big time and I'm convinced I have something majorly wrong with me. Because of Covid, it's not so simple to get an appointment, and I'm not very good on the phone. I suppose my question is, can all of this be hormonal? My doctor thinks I probably am perimenopausal because of my age (47) but she doesn't like to blame it on everything. Does perimenopause get worse before it gets better (ie finishes) and could this be all of that. I know the simple answer is to go back to GP, but it's really difficult to get her to listen as she thinks I'm just being an hormonal wreck like I usually am.
Thank you for listening...it probably doesn't make any sense at all though!