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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 4/17/2010 2:41:34 AM

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Thank you ladies - I have been a migraine sufferer since I was 12 - but the last two years of been absolute hell. My migraines have forced me to retire from nursing as I wasn't capable of safe nursing either due to the pain or the drugs. I would get sent home from work - not because I asked - but because my boss saw how much pain I was in. I was told many years ago that my migraines would disappear either in pregnancy or menopause. They went away till the end of breast-feeding babe #1 (a total of almost 30 pain free months from conception), but got intensely worse with babe #2. Let's just say I am still waiting.

I am eagerly awaiting the hot flashes as most days I am an icicle. To the point of inflicting pain on others when I put my cold hands or feet on them ...... heh heh heh ..... maybe there is a sadist in me after all!

HRT is not and never will be an option for me. It is designed as a short term assistance. My Mom was put on is and never taken off. I have just gone thru the 8th anniversay of her passing due to breast cancer which the oncologist and pathologist said were directly related to her long term use of HRT.

In the end - I can only say ....... BRING IT ON!!!!!!

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 4/17/2010 5:09:41 AM

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Good morning!
I am going thru pre and it is hell as well. About 3 years ago i started having pain like yest infections. They treated and tested for everything. nothing worked. I could not sit or walk or days on end, turned pure red, and itched and burned till I was crying. then recently,I was diagnosed as Vulvar Vestibulitis. i am on birth control to regulate my hormones and give me less periods...therefore less pain AND Amitriptiline (sp) for chronic pain. It seems to be helping but that is the best they can do since I am headed full into 40 and they do not want to alter anything else before menopause.

I also have been getting hot flashes for 2 years and the worst I fear is yet to come. But i have to laugh sometimes cause once I was sitting and got real hot and turned to an older lady (mid 60's) and whispered. "Is it hot in here or just me?" and she said "No, it's cool" and I said "oh thank you, it's just my pre-menopause then" to which she smiled and nodded. Crazy incident but it helps to know most of us women have each other's backs in this respect. Some thing about it being very tribal having all us women, even the older ones from whom we look to for guidance and wisdom, together here talking and supporting each other.

Okay, enough of that or else i will break out in Kumbaya.Scary.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 4/17/2010 5:34:16 AM

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Soy, SSRIs, hormones, black cohosh - lots of stuff to try. Soy caused my thyroid to really stop working.
Since the peri set off my depression I went on Zoloft and was very happy to discover it ended the hot flashes. Even when I came off it, they didn't return. I still have some night sweats but not nearly as bed. I don't have to change the sheets in the middle of the night anymore.

Don't just suffer, there are things you can do.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 4/17/2010 8:34:10 AM

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I refuse to let this crap happen to me.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 4/17/2010 11:31:12 AM

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How do you plan on stopping it?:)

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 4/17/2010 6:47:12 PM

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YDD you don't have to stay on HRT forever. My mother was on it less than a year and a half. Tapering down the whole time. It eliminated the hot flashes which is what she wanted it to do. People are on birth control for longer than that.

I'm sorry for your loss. I just wanted to say that it can be used shorter term without problems.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 4/17/2010 9:14:42 PM

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I noticed my migraines are less frequent, but last longer when I get them. Sometimes it takes 2 doses of Migranal to stop them. I also have a prescription I can take to the outpatient side of 2 local ERs for IV depakote, which has a good reputation for stopping migraines, without making you stoned.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 4/17/2010 10:16:16 PM

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I am also in the same boat. On the recommendation of my neurologist I take prescription Midrin, added a Magnesium supplement and finally because the migraines were getting so bad I talked to my OB/GYN and am on birth control pills again. We did a 3 month trial and the first month I could tell the difference. I still get a small menstrual migraine but it doesn't put me down and out. I still bleed but I take a pill everyday and one week is a placebo with some iron in it.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/1/2010 3:50:11 PM

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I am so sorry for the delay in my replies (I am having laptop issues).

Thank you for your replies.

My regular doctor has given me a rx of fioricet and my shrink has started me on a prevention protocol: magnesium and riboflavin along with Topamax. She said that feverfew works also as does Co-Q10 but the latter is quite expensive.

*crosses fingers*

Thank you all again for your generosity in sharing your experiences.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/3/2010 4:03:41 PM

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Thanks to those who mentioned magnesium. I've been having a daily headache for years now, with only the intensity varying. I bought some off brand of Milk of Magnesia from the Dollar Tree and started putting a half dozen drops into a drink once per day, several days per week...and my headaches have stopped! (Btw, I'm doing it this way because I hate taking pills and prefer liquid whenever possible.)

I can't believe all the years I've wasted on ibuprophen and aspirin and prescriptions. Having a shortage in anything can really mess the body up. In the past, doctors have had to tell me to take vitamins, especially B's, to clear up geographic tongue. I had thought it was a side effect of chemo. A few years later when the exhaustion wouldn't go away, another tested my blood and found out it was because I had a severe vitamin D shortage.

I bugged doctors about headaches too, including the gyn I went to when I started having perio menopause. Nobody suggested magnesium except y'all in this thread. I've been having migraines since my twenties, so it will be interesting to know if those were enhanced by a magnesium shortage. Sharing experiences is more than just whining, it's helpful. Next time I go to my doctor, I'll let her know about the magnesium.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/3/2010 4:10:20 PM

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Love it

Hallelujah Sistah!!!

Although not at the menopause yet, I saw my sister, my mother and both of her sisters go through hell with it. I've been told that this IUD will last another couple of years for birth control, then one more will go in and that'll see me through the menopause with few or no symptoms. And then that's it.
Imho it's THE best form of birth control ever (for me) - no periods, no cramps, no migraines, very few mood swings....perfect!

Bumped to highlight what myotherself said. There is no reason to have a period. Period.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/3/2010 4:12:07 PM

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I have been on birth control for the endometriosis for years, and now I am on Yaz, which is the pill of the gods! I have virtually no periods--though when I do, I get to have the joy of CRAMPS big time--and my antidepressants really help with the hot flashes. Who knew! So I have super brief and rare hot flashes, and not much else.

This whole vitamin D shortage---it must be ENDEMIC, I hear so many women being diagnosed with it! What are you taking for it?

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/4/2010 8:43:04 AM

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I chose to avoid the hormone stuff........very glad I did. But again, it's all been pretty tolerable for me.

Ditto. The Dr. prescribed some of that "stuff" for me but I never filled it. As for mood swings I'm always bitchy anyway so I couldn't tell the difference. It's all been very tolerable for me and I'm soooooooo glad it's ALL OVER!!!!!

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/4/2010 1:09:02 PM

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This whole vitamin D shortage---it must be ENDEMIC, I hear so many women being diagnosed with it! What are you taking for it?

Not just women. They've decided everyone needs 1000 IU daily. The vitamin the teen takes is a horse pill. Me, I'd rather go into the sun then take more pills.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/4/2010 2:04:02 PM

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Is the vit D thing related to calcium uptake at all? The sun doesn't shine a whole lot in SE Michigan, and I work in a windowless office... I catch the rays whenever I can!

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/4/2010 6:51:50 PM

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Has anyone on this thread been prescribed progesterone during peri-menopause? If so, can you share side-effects and did it help with horrid, painful periods?

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/4/2010 6:59:05 PM

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This whole vitamin D shortage---it must be ENDEMIC, I hear so many women being diagnosed with it! What are you taking for it?

Last October my doctor tested my blood, because I was so tired all the time, and then told me I was very low in vitamin D. I'm glad they're finally testing for this. Anyway, I was given capsules to take once per week. The bottle seems to say that I only had two doses to take, but I thought there had been more. The pills were 50,000 IUs each.

Of course this would happen, when we were told to avoid the sun...cover up with clothing, use sunscreen, wear hats, and avoid going outside between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Then we're indoors all day, between home, jobs, and shopping. Years ago when something similar happened, the children were getting rickets, so schools started dosing them daily with a spoonful of cod liver oil for the vitamin D. Later vitamin D was added to milk, but...the price of milk has gone up so much that if we kept going through a gallon every two days, it would take too big of a bite out of our budget, so my son gets his milk and I get a small splash in my coffee.

I've been so long without sunshine touching my skin that being out in it for one hour last week burnt my exposed forearms to lobster red. I'm going to start sunbathing this year, scaring the neighbors by wearing shorts.

Fifteen or twenty minutes will have to be enough at first, but I'm hoping for half an hour on each side later on. I'm blonde and get a light burn after 15 minutes. My forearms have been the darkest tanned part of my body...a sort of peach tone; that's the darkest tan my body seems capable of producing. As a kid, I lived in California and in Florida, as well as other states. The weather was warm and we spent a lot of time in tank tops and shorts, but here in WV it's usually too cold for that except for a few months out of the year. Our town also has no outdoor community swimming pool.

Instead of strolling around the neighborhood after dinner, as in the old days, many people "mall walk" or go to indoor gyms.

Mom's afraid of brittle bones, so had her doctor do a bone density test recently as well as blood tests. I can't wait to see if she's low in vitamin D. She thinks not, because she takes the required daily dose for the average adult. If they've upped their recommendations, we haven't heard of it yet except here, I thought it was still at 200 IU on or vitamin bottles. If they've upgraded it, then...she might have flunked that blood test just like I did.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/4/2010 7:02:59 PM

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When I had my recent bone scan, the tech explained that children are also having trouble with vitamin D because parents are constantly coating them with sunscreen. She said it is a trade off, but that everyone does need some unprotected time in the sun, just not when it is most dangerous.

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/5/2010 8:29:05 AM

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wow really dont want this to happen to me ...

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RE: The Peri-Menopause/Pre-Menopausal Hell thread - 5/5/2010 8:40:08 AM

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I've been taking a Calcium/Vitamin D supplement for years. Highly recommended by the docs. You can get all the calcium in the world but if you are Vit. D deficient you will not absorb it.

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