I feel horrendous. What is going on?

[ThePigReveal]

For 3 weeks I’ve felt ‘off’. Started off with intermittent high temperatures a few times a day. Then I got my period and felt bloated and generally crap with an appetite a body builder would envy.

A few days in to my period , I was hit with really low mood. My first thought upon waking was annoyance that I was still alive with similar thoughts throughout the day; this lasted roughly 5 days and is out of character for me. My period ended 3 days ago but I’ve been exhausted with a constant headache and I’m extremely irritable! I’m so irritable I’m annoying myself. I’m also very very tired and feel rubbish in general. Like I have flu, but I don’t. I don’t have covid. I’m too young for perimenopause.

I’ve gained a fair few pounds in the last week and I need to snap out of this. I’m on the verge of tears all day but I have no idea why.

Has anyone else felt like this and any tips on how to sort myself out?

Well I’ve just come up to lie on my bed because I could have written your post word for word.

No idea what’s going on. Am so fatigued, headachy / sinusy but no congestion, irritable and anxious, brain fogged. Also majorly bloated and heavy feeling.

Have tried googling and none the wiser!

Mercury in retrograde.

It’s a rough one.

Try & get some blood tests. I had very similar a year or so ago and my Vit D & B12 were through the floor. Also thyroid check.

Still reeling from Pluto me.

I am reading a description of peri though OP. Maybe it's another hormone imbalance and might be worth getting checked out if the GP gods are smiling on you.

I've felt the same. Woken up this morning with shingles

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Ooh same! Headache for the last 5/6 days, general fatigue (falling asleep at 8pm with the kids), desperately wanting a nap all day.
I'm also grumpy but trying hard not to be but the kids and annoying me so much!

😭

I'm 42 next week 👀

Sounds like an average period for me, and I’m probably a bit young for peri, although who knows. I have fierce heavy periods, with flu like symptoms and crippling tiredness. i’m having one at the moment and I feel like crap.

There’s been so many viruses and I’m hoping I am immune since me and my dd had been sick every other months since February. It’s been a roller coaster.

Yes!

Have you tested for covid? I had a mega appetite with it. So strange. And felt rough. Get well soon x

I could have written this post!!! Glad to know I'm not alone but still utterly fed up with it

I’ve just been for a short walk to see if I can shake the feeling. I’m feeling no better but I’m wiped out. Sorry others are feeling the same.

@ThePigReveal Did you have covid within the last few months?

I’ve tested negative for covid but I did have it around 6 months ago.

Could be a hormonal imbalance or vitamin deficiency. Maybe give your GP a call & have some bloods done

All this but the period... I am post menopausal, but have had cramping pain, and a the other symptoms you describe, odd thing for me is even though I can't stop eating, I have lost weight. I am exhausted still. I think it's covid but not tested positive

Please explain this to me!! Because I feel like utter shite like the OP and would love an explanation!!

Same with headaches, exhaustion and low moods! I think there's something in the air

Definitely get a thyroid check and full blood count through your dr.

Oh, I am glad there is an astronomical explanation.

I am very very rarely physically ill, but started coming down with SOMEthing on Sunday/Monday..... From interior shivering but an increase temp of nearly three degrees, funny rashes, low-level nausea, dizziness and eyes not even working very well, a pounding heart, coughing like a 20 day smoker (which is lingering),a horrible two-day headache that NOTHING would shift. to body aches in most joints and some larger muscles and literally NO energy. Didn't eat for best part of four says, and still have no appetite.
The worst of it as not really knowing were to turn...... GP would probably not even answer the phone, could NOT move so couldn't go anywhere, and the hold for 111 would have killed me off.
The only medication that did help was the new (?) combined Ibuprofen and Paracetomol, or maybe the headache was on it's way out anyway.
I have eaten (a piece of apple pie today and can probably face a salad.

If it was Co-Vid (I am not vaccinated), then I sympathise with those who have had it, and worse than I ever did.

If it ws due to planetary alignment, then wow, I am going into hiding for the next one.

@sleezeandwineparty I would go and see the GP about that. Unexplained weight loss, tiredness, and pain are generally worth checking out when they occur together

OP I've felt like this for ages. Blood tests don't show anything sinister, I'm post menopausal and oh my god I am miserable.

I feel quite nauseas a lot of the time but I'm hungry. Dizzy, tired but can't sleep. It's shit.