Help ! I feel like I'm drowning

[BooseysMom]

I posted this on another thread but it wasn't the right place so posting here in the hope someonecan help. It's health and menopause related although the doc thinks it's not the menopause causing it.
I've just been prescribed Ramipril 2.5mg for consistently high bp. I had been on HRT but stopped as I was getting headaches and I didn't feel any worse for stopping..until now. I've been awake all night with all over aching, nausea, sweating and anxiety. It's always worse when the period is due.
I'm 49 and the gp did bloods but not hormone levels so I don't know whether I'm menopausal even as I'm having regular periods. I think i must be after tonight! I feel like I'm drowning. I just want someone to talk me thru this. I think I'm going to have to re-start HRT.
Thanks.

Several things...

Blood tests are not used to determine whether or not you're in peri-menopause, which I am sure you are, and you obviously aren't menopausal given you still have periods.

As for the GP, I highly recommend you go to a peri/menopause specialist. GP's are woefully ignorant regarding peri and menopause.

Don't take HRT without overhauling what else you put into and do with your body and mind, as your feelings are based on this.

Take control. High Blood pressure? What's going on in you and your life to cause that?

HRT works best when you sort out diet, fitness and lifestyle too, as a package of measures.

Like an MOT and service all at once and it can be life changing

@Aquamarine1029.. thank you. I can't afford the fees of a specialist otherwise I would have gone ages ago

@Butterflywing.. thank you. The gp I spoke to yesterday was focusing purely on de-stressing, sleep and diet. I have been in bed all day sleeping on and off and still feel like I've been in a fight with a juggernaut! Main stressors in my life are DS and very very selfish aging father who today I let down as I was too ill to be his taxi driver.