Menopause Support Group
Menopause is the physiological cessation of menstrual cycles associated with advancing age. It normally occurs in women between the ages of 45 and 55, when the body begins to slow and stop the production of eggs, estrogen and progesterone production decreases, and menstruation diminishes, eventually stopping altogether.
Hi I'm new. This is what I am going through:
I go to my dr. asking if I am going through menapause, I had all the symptoms, in a severe way. She said no, I'm too young. She needs a wake up call!
couple of months later, I have a beakdown. suicidal brought on by pre-menapause and stress and the severe pain I was in due to fibro. The firbo pain I beleive is what finally put me over the edge. My dr. doesn't believe in pain meds (?)
So I'm put on two depression pills: cymbalta and wellbutrin. Couple mo. later my psychiatrist takes me off cymbalta to see if one would do.
I started having rapid mood swings...so she put me on Limictal. Made me a little worse, she ups it, this goes on until I am on 150mg at that point I am a calm suicidal, manic anger, very irritable etc.
Yesterday, she switced me from limictal to lithium. Since I'm having all the mood swings i must be bipolar. Well I was fine when I was on the two antidepressants. So why not go back to what worked?
Dr.s are not as smart as we are at times! So I have decided to go against her orders. I am gong to wean off limictal and go to a diff. dr. (family dr) and have some blood work done.
It has to be menapause because my periods are so messed up and I have all the other symptoms.
Why are dr.s so far behind? Woman are going through menapause in their 30's now. Also, when you have a tubal, you are more likely to go through early menapause.
Stupid dr.s I'm tired of experimenting with drugs and being treated for the wrong thing.
Has anyone else been wrongly diagnosed?
Just wondering.
~dixie
I go to my dr. asking if I am going through menapause, I had all the symptoms, in a severe way. She said no, I'm too young. She needs a wake up call!
couple of months later, I have a beakdown. suicidal brought on by pre-menapause and stress and the severe pain I was in due to fibro. The firbo pain I beleive is what finally put me over the edge. My dr. doesn't believe in pain meds (?)
So I'm put on two depression pills: cymbalta and wellbutrin. Couple mo. later my psychiatrist takes me off cymbalta to see if one would do.
I started having rapid mood swings...so she put me on Limictal. Made me a little worse, she ups it, this goes on until I am on 150mg at that point I am a calm suicidal, manic anger, very irritable etc.
Yesterday, she switced me from limictal to lithium. Since I'm having all the mood swings i must be bipolar. Well I was fine when I was on the two antidepressants. So why not go back to what worked?
Dr.s are not as smart as we are at times! So I have decided to go against her orders. I am gong to wean off limictal and go to a diff. dr. (family dr) and have some blood work done.
It has to be menapause because my periods are so messed up and I have all the other symptoms.
Why are dr.s so far behind? Woman are going through menapause in their 30's now. Also, when you have a tubal, you are more likely to go through early menapause.
Stupid dr.s I'm tired of experimenting with drugs and being treated for the wrong thing.
Has anyone else been wrongly diagnosed?
Just wondering.
~dixie
Sandi
My aunt is 52 and still having periods, but has been having symptoms of menop. for over 10 years she says.
My good friend is a doc, and she says I should begin taking meds now, before the anxiety, etc. gets worse. I am very reluctant. My g-grandmother lived to be 92 and she made it through meno with no drugs. I am afraid they will make it worse, instead of better.