Menopause, Muscles and Magnesium

[gettingoldsucks]

Hi and HELP!

I am 49. Have the Mirena coil (have had for 14 yrs). I've definitely hit something and I'm struggling. I have a GP appointment next week to discuss the following symptoms but it's a mindfield to know what to ask for.

My worst symptoms are severe anxiety and nervousness. It ramps up in the evening. I lie watching TV trying to distract myself but it's not working and I'm tearful and feel terrible. Jittery, anxious, nervous, impending sense of doom. Feel like I'm waiting for a terrible phone call. Takes till after midnight to get to sleep and I wake at 3 approx every night feeling the same. Listen to an audiobook till I go back over. No caffeine or alcohol in evenings.

I also have low mood due to above and zero motivation, fatigue, total lack of interest in life. I feel like I've lost myself. Don't want to go out with friends anymore.

Also, muscle aches particularly in quads. I've read on here about magnesium to help sleep and so took for the last 3 nights which has co-incidentally given really sharp pain and spasm/cramps in my quads on waking and weighbearing. Any insight??

I've the usual suspect of the dreading BrainFog. The struggle is real. Plus some hot flushes. Dry skin.

Help! Can anyone resonate with the muscles and magnesium. I've heard vitD being mentioned, how does that help?

Thanks if you got this far!

Hi OP, you sound like you need a good blast of oestrogen.

I take mag glycinate x2 each night which helps me sleep like a log.

I also take vit d, b12, zinc.

I don't get any muscle spasm after the mag gly. If anything it stops my restless legs.

You could try getting the magnesium spray which goes directly on your legs.

Just re read your text. FYI, my hot night sweats stopped within days of starting oestrogen.

Plus you might find it good to get the oestrogen to the right level and then ask for testosterone. I started that after 7 months of oestrogen. My levels are slowly recovering and it is good for muscle strength and energy.

Get yourself to the gp... you sound like me, I'm on HRT now and helps but hear you and it's so debilitating

Thanks! GP booked in next week face to face appointment.

What does Magnesium do to help you sleep???

Glycinate for sleep
Malinate to be alert

So I saw my GP and started Everol 50 patches.

I woke this morning with a fairly bad headache, I presume just adjusting???

I don't know much about the patches but I did want to try the estrodot ones as they are smaller and stickier apparently and I swim weekly. Apparently poor stock in UK though??

Hi OP i swim three times a week and the Everol patches stay on perfectly.

Just in case that's relevant.

I had headaches and massive breasts and a very active uterus after I started HRT, it had all disappeared after three months. Hang in there.

I find everol patches painful to remove - after 4 days of showering etc. definitely no issues with stickiness for me.

Thanks! That's good to know re stickiness.

Not sure I want the massive breasts

When you say a very active uterus - explain more! I have the coil and don't have periods at all. Could this change??

Hi OP, I wasn't on any hormonal treatment at all when I started HRT and I think my levels had been plummeting and erratic for sometime. So within a few days of starting g the oestrogen it felt like I had butterflies in my pelvic area. Just moving and active. And then when I started on the progesterone my breasts were massive.

But I always got massive sore breasts before my period so that was normal ish for me.

I'm now 11 months in and on the coil with oestrogen patches and I am pre menstrual and my breasts are horrendous again. Very sad to report I still get horrible PMT with the mirena!

None of the above might be an issue for you.

I have had the mirena coil for 15 years now and zero periods with it so maybe not having the progesterone element of HRT to thin the womb lining means I won't have those type of symptoms. Who knows though, it all sounds like a massive balancing act!

Yes that would make sense. I could definitely feel activity and when I went for a vaginal ultra sound three weeks after starting the HRT, my uterine lining was v thick, however I was then due a period with the progesterone so it wasn't of any concern.

How are you feeling now Op? Were you on ANY Estrogen before starting the patches? Hopefully helping you sleep at night and the nervousness... for me the muscle aches and joint pain is the last to go but the sleep and nervousness was helped fairly quickly after starting HRT.

Hi!

No, wasn't on any oestrogen before. Changed my patch for the 3rd time last night!

I think potentially the nervousness has improved, not gone but certainly waking in the night and feeling anxious has eased, thankfully!

I need my motivation and spark to come back. I'm told i may feel like a new woman in 3 months??

I certainly feel like the old me I didn't know I was missing! For me, a couple months "regular" HRT then adding testosterone was the key. Wishing you all the best keep us posted