Is this perimenopause? Help please!

[LizzySimmons]

About a year ago I started getting this taste in my mouth just like I was pregnant (I wasn't) and feeling queasy and woozy. A year on, I'm feeling awful constantly, headaches, breathless, woozy, weak muscles and painful joints, bad tempered, fatigued, can't keep a thought in my head, and these drops in temperature, feeling suddenly really cold.

My periods haven't stopped - just popped up in the middle of the month a few times and quite heavy/pmt.

I've had all the medical tests and scans under the sun to rule out anything serious.

I have a 2 year old and I'm at the end of my tether. Anyone out there feeling the same? Can anyone help?

Yes! I feel the same and have no idea what's going on. I am alternately warm or v cold. I have been having v intense mood swings from so depressed to elated. I feel sick at times. I feel off balance and had a faint. I can't remember things and even sound like I'm slurring my words at times. I'm having an MRI , have had blood tests and ecg. Also unbelievable headache. Feel like I'm going insane. 42 and still bf my near two year old. Someone suggested hormone test to me. Is that what this is?

I'm exactly the same, I'm 47 up until 5 yrs ago I had horrendous monthlies, now I have a couple of days of heavy loss per year and that's it but ...... ............ I'm constantly glowing I can't cool down plus night sweats. I cry at everything, I'm clumsy I smashed so much that I try and use plastic crockery. I have fainting spells, constantly forget stuff and have this muscle weakness and joint pain and I have this chronic fatigue. I've had a blood test that said I wasn't peri-menopausal! But I can't be ovulating as I'm having no periods!!! Great being a woman eh.

Same. Memory, fatigue, cold, fatigue, memory, cold, aches, pains, fatigue, muscle pain, pains in my shoulder, fatigue, pains in my neck, my bloody feet hurt so much 😂😅😄 really bad PMT but am becoming irregular.
I cannot finish anything and I spend a third of my time looking for things. Easily upset. Impatient. Very little tolerance at all.
Quite upsetting to be honest. And laughable other days.
Yesterday I went to the shop for coffee and I can home with milk!
OBGYN did bloods and sent a note back saying "all normal". So now I feel like it is all in my mind. I think I will change doctor and look for someone who has been through this.
Thank you for posting OP. I am not alone it seems!

By the way, I read somewhere that this can go on for ages. Menopause is when your period has stopped for one full year. Getting to that point is all peri menopause

aching muscles in my legs so much that I sometimes can't stand up/walk, insomnia and my blasted periods still turn up every month. I'm 50. I've been going through different stages of peri-menopause for the last 8 years - periods resembling the great flood, missed periods, painful periods, you name it.

OP have you had a thyroid test? You can feel unwell and still be just in the 'normal' range. One of my main symptoms was feeling cold. Heavy periods, breathlessness, fatigue, brain fog etc are all symptoms.

ladybird69 wrote: "Great being a woman eh."
Yes, there are obviously some clear-cut drawbacks apart from having a lower salary and lower pension. Thank's for sharing! I recognize a lot from these lists.

@patheticpain, have you tried going to the gym? Obviously one has to start very lightweight. I believe it might help. If you, by chance, really hate going to the gym (some people do including myself) you might want to google 'friskissvettis' and 'swedercise' it's a concept not so "gym-like" and I've been a member since (hrm! ) 1984... there, no need to pretend I'm younger than I am. In any case I found that I have to go to the gym too, and lift weights and use the rowing-machine and such, because one otherwise develops this annoying muscle weakness... I believe it must be from hormones, or rather the lack of. I'm 52 btw, hence my user id here.

Sounds like it. Go on the pill. The added estrogen will even out the erratic production your body does during peri-menopause.