Hi there
Im asking if any of you lovely ladies can give me some advice? I've lost all hope 😢.
It's such a long story and I'm sorry to babble on...I'm at the end of my rope.
I'm 48 and for about 4 years I've been suffering with dry mouth, hot sweats at night, horrible pounding heart and some missed beats which coincide with my face heating up, exhausion, shaking, intermittent low mood, lack of motivation etc. I still have my periods quite regular, bar a bit of spotting in between and they seem to be a little different. I've been to 3 GP's who haven't been much help (especially the women, which is odd 😏) and I was given sequential Evorel patches (2 weeks oestrogen and 2 week combined) and tried them for 12 weeks and they kept coming off, bled nearly constantly and I didn't feel any better really.
I take Sertraline 100mg which I have done 18 months now and have suffered intermittent anxiety more than depression throughout my life, but before this, I had been tootling along very nicely for 10 years plus.
The thing is at the moment I have constant pounding heart, which makes my face hot, and it just won't ease.... I've had it everyday now for about 2 months and it's got to the point where I am virtually incapacitated everyday.... it races at rest and it races when I'm busy. I just haven't got the motivation to do anything as it's horrific. It has got to the point where I have difficulty leaving the house or doing anything 😪 and it also makes me feel sick and I have no appetite. I now feel so anxious because of it. I'm not living 😪. I have a GP phone appointment again on Monday with a different GP, but I know she will say it's 'stress' or 'anxiety because I have had anxiety before, but this feels different.
The GP was going to try another form of hrt but there isn't any others available in my area.
I really don't know what to do.... I thought the Sertraline would help this, but I think it's a physical thing more than a mental one. I have had heart checks and a 24 hour Holter monitor but nothing was abnormal. I'm also on fish oil, tried magnesium, and take a women's vitamin.
Please help me, I don't want to sound dramatic, but I can't live like this for another 10 years +, I feel horrible every day now 😔