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Peri or panic?

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ShouldIStaySelfIsolated · 28/09/2025 18:39

Posting here for traffic but I'm on the verge of losing it with my GP.

I keep being told that I'm too young for Perimenopause at just turned 40. However I have a list of symptoms as long as my arm:
Breast pain - investigated and found to have no cause so "must be hormonal"
Irregular periods - investigated and found to have adenomyosis and 2 4cm+ ovarian cysts
Awful bloating
IBS-like symptoms
Dry eyes
Dry nose(!) This is a new one this weekend... it feels so crusty and sore inside, but I don't have a cold
Chest pain, intermittent but more often when bending over
Crushing anxiety - physical symptoms only (tight chest) without actually feeling anxious
Headaches
Just not quite feeling myself. Like, not depressed, but that kind of empty feeling (I've had depression in the past and it just isn't the same)
Hair loss
Brain fog
Forgetfulness

I'm not really sure what I'm after, other than reassurance really that it sounds like peri, which might give me the confidence to push more with the GP and the gynea team who I'm under for the issues mentioned above

Any advice/tips/recommendations to deal with any of those symptoms would be much appreciated

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ShouldIStaySelfIsolated · 28/09/2025 18:51

I didn't realise there was a menopause board... maybe I should have posted there?

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herbalteabag · 28/09/2025 19:01

I started getting some of those symptoms around age 45. Considering nearly 8 years later I'm still in perimenopause, I don't think it's impossible.

herbalteabag · 28/09/2025 19:09

Of your list, I've had these symptoms: brain fog, anxiety (a feeling, not physical), bloating, headaches, dry eyes, forgetfulness, not feeling myself, irregular and missing periods.
Also, hot flushes, but they come and go in phases. Had so many I thought I was near the end of peri, but they went away again.

I just put up with them, I haven't sought any advice!

CapitanSandy · 28/09/2025 19:13

Have you had any blood tests? I always have anxiety, chest pain and hair loss when my ferritin levels are low.

ShouldIStaySelfIsolated · 28/09/2025 19:55

Thanks for the advice.

I have had some blood tests, but not for the last few months. Iron and thyroid were close to borderlines but not enough to be treated. Might ask for a repeat

I have started on collagen and biotin about a month ago, and started taking spatone iron water a week ago (I've had iron tablets and they made the bloating and gastro issues worse, so im hoping to build up to them this time, by starting with spatone, then a liquid iron, then onto the tablets

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