Menopause or anxiety disorder?

[MrsSlimShady]

I am 55, and I’ve not taken any HRT to date. I do have a Mirena coil which will come out in a year.

I haven’t had any really noticeable symptoms. None really that have really got in the way of life. I’ve been lucky.

However, what I would say now is that my anxiety is off the scale. One day I can be invincible, and a few days later an anxious heap who can’t sleep or function.

I just started a new job with a lot of responsibility. The first day I was a quivering wreck, the second I loved and enjoyed the day. I’ve just returned now and I’m exhausted from the anxiety I felt all day. I was just learning on the computer and I had to stand up and move around as the anxiety overwhelmed me. I thought I was going to run out!

I’ve noticed this on and off, and it’s getting worse.

What I want to understand in my head is; have I lost the plot and am now an anxious person, or is this a menopause symptom which I need to address?

I mean, come on. Who has an anxiety attack over a bit of e-learning?

Try HRT. Anxiety and sleeplessness were my two main symptoms. HRT did help.

I had anxiety and depression at age 38 to the degree that I needed time of work from a job I had done previously fine for 15 years. I now know from research and courses I have done on meno that this was the start of my peri symptoms. Was put on SSRIs and now know this was the wrong course of treatment. Info from the British Meno Soc and a meno soc called Spiced Pear tells me that HRT would have been the correct treatment. Only now, at 52 am I taking HRT for other symptoms and coming off the very small maintenance dose of SSRI feeling very vindicated and yhet sad that I called this 15 years ago but was poo pooed by medics who didn't really have the training for meno symptoms. The Mirena is not great for mood ( progesterone only and increase A&D) which is why I have resisted despite nightmare periods.
Hope you find the support and help you need x

It sounds like meno to me! I became very anxious too. My most relevant example might be the day at work when we were all given new laptops. I was handed mine with the instruction: ‘’you just do the set-up yourself, it’s really easy’’ At this point I went into meltdown, burst into tears and hid in the toilets a while wondering how cross my husband would be if I quit my job 😆….. I can laugh now but of course it wasn’t funny then.