Hi Ladies,
Im here after what feels like quite a journey. Im looking to figure out what the hell is going on with me as I feel really quite lost and am finding that ive got no-one I can speak to, who is going through similar to me right now.
So its best if I start at the beginning. Following a full year of tradegy, where I lost my father, a close friend lost her child after a battle with cancer and 7 other funerals in 9 months, an inquest into my dads death, which I wanst told about until 3 months after it was announced, crappy family politics, my 8 year old daughter, whos had alopecia areata since she was 3 almost lost all of her hair, a house renovation a new, very detailed job and finally top that off with my husband working away a lot, so im doing the whole thing as a semi single mum. Safe to say, I felt very stressed, my anxiety was through the roof and I was getting all sorts of odd sensations, which initially, I put down to stress. After a few months I started to realise that actually the symptoms were getting worse in and around my period but also extending into the rest of the month, my periods changed, a bit, not too much but I was getting itchy skin, heart palpitations, burning sensations around my lady bits, burning mouth, thrush, acne sore breasts, worsening anxiety, joint and muscle aches especiall my neck and back, dry skin, dizzy, vertigo, brain fog, headaches there was so much. I thought I was going mad and it scared me, so I went to the gp who prescribed me hrt,evorel sequi, im now on 2 ×50 patches Bloods for hormones were ok it seems but GP said its not a reliable test in peri as it hormones can fluctuate. So here I am wondering if this is peri or is ot something else...... oh did I mention health and death anxiety, I have that too. Which reallyndoesn t help.with the strange sensations.
Oh yeah, im 39, I see one GP who seems spot on, then another who seems to struggle with the whole peri thing and reckons Im too young. I GET the feeling that the gp is annoyed with me but I dont know whats going on and there is never enoigh time to explain it in full.
Lots of my symptoms have now fallen by the side apart from my anxiety amd I would have to say thats improving slowly too. However today I forgot to put a new patch on, by 8 Oclock this eve my anxiety was through the roof, no reasons for it, thats when I realised I hadnt put my patch on, I felt horrid, so.I popped it on and now im feeling a bit better. So what are your thoughts ladies please help me and offer me some hope that this shitty stage is going to pass and I will feel like a functioning adult again x Thanks for reading this super long post