Neuro menopause symptoms

[Katie342]

Hello. Looking for some experineces from anybody who had neurological symptoms of menopause? I have tingling in my hands and feet (mainly on my right) and have started with an eye twitch irritatingly the last few days. I've seen a neuro (MRIs all clear) and had usual vitamin deficiency tests etc and all clear/good levels. Hence peri diagnosis despite my age of 39. If anybody on here experienced tingling, did the HRT fix it? Impatient with mine as seeing no improvement and it's driving me crackers! Thanks in advance

The tingling for me was low ferritin.
Have you had your iron, B12 and thyroid checked?
And the eye twitch is often stress.

I get vestibular symptoms - occasional feelings of slight vertigo, like the ground is swaying.

@DustyLee123thabk you. Yes had those checked. Transferrin was borderline so have been taking iron tablets for 3 months. All others fine. How long taking a tablet for ferritin did your symptoms ease?

@Dustmylemonliesthank you. That sounds unnerving. Hope it diminishes!

What were your ferritin levels? The actual number? Ferritin is the iron storage, transferrin is movement about the body. Ferritin is a better way of looking at potential deficiency (the analogy is that ferritin is the bank account, other numbers might refer to your wallet or how much change you've got in your pocket).

Unfortunately the range given as "normal" is vast and most people have a variety of symptoms at the low end of the range. Under 30 ought to be understood as iron deficiency with or without anaemia, and under 100 can still produce symptoms.

Including but not limited to vertigo, tingling, migraine, depression, hair loss, slow healing, shortness of breath, exhaustion. I got as low as about 17 and felt like death. But people can get much lower!

Not all doctors or pharmacists are particularly knowledgeable in this area. The cynical part of me thinks that there's no push for it to be more widely understood because high strength iron tablets are dirt cheap.

@LongOutBreathThis is really interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this! My ferritin itself is 27.9. So I guess what you’re saying is it’s in range, but ultimately very low! I’ve been told to take an iron tablet with vitamin c every other day, which I’ve been doing for 2 months so far!

Is it high strength? Mine are 210mg ferrous furmurate. Vitamin c is good advice as it helps iron absorb.

Personally at the level you are at I still had symptoms - hair loss, slow healing and tiredness for me. Now I'm at 76 and feel good.

Oh I had twitches too although as I also started taking magnesium and b12 I can't be sure what cured them.

I think it's important to understand why you're low iron too. Veganism, heavy periods or more serious underlying stuff.

Disclaimer I am far from expert on this! What I also don't know is whether the "normal" ranges given for thyroid, b12 etc etc are also BS. I almost don't want to know as it gets so complicated!

@LongOutBreathThank you. my tablets only actually have 42mg in so not that strong. Seems to only give the RDA. Think I might ask GP to retest and see if it’s improved! I take b12 but not magnesium so might give that a go!