Hello ladies.
Here I am with my same old problem and I just wanted to let off some steam if that's okay.
My age old problem is moods swings of course. My emotions are all over the place every day, I am up, down, okay, tearful, calm, jittery, happy, sad, you name it! I literally don't know how I am going to feel from one moment to the next. This usually starts as soon as I wake up. I am often tired so I began going to bed earlier in the hope of getting more sleep but in fact I just wake up earlier so I don't feel any more rested. My anxiety comes and goes because I don't know how I will get through the day with all this emotional instability.
My mood swings began in post meno and I know other ladies have reported similar experiences but unless they report back to the forum I have no idea if this symptom resolved for them or if they found anything that helped. My trusty meno book states that the emotional symptoms do calm down eventually but this has been going on a long time now.
My last blood test was in March and showed very low Oestrogen but I am afraid that there is something else going on besides hormones. I asked my Nurse Practitioner to refer me to a Psychiatrist but she said that wasn't possible so someone from the mental health team would be in touch but that hasn't happened.
I am exhausted with the worry of it all. I think someone posted recently that they didn't mind the mood changes but they did find the physical symptoms hard to cope with, I am the reverse in that my physical symptoms have mostly resolved, the only one left being some VA which I can cope with, it's the mental/emotional stuff that is flooring me.
Sorry to moan ladies, I will likely be feeling better later but I know I will have a rough time again as this rollercoaster is relentless.
Take care everyone and thank you so much for reading my tale of woe.
K.