I know how you feel. My period is due within one week and I feel horrible. I started to feel really good until yesterday morning when i crashed. I had a terrible episode. My chest was hurting and I felt everything was caving in and light headed. Today Heart palpitations, light headed and anxiety. Don't know what to do with myself. Even though i know it is due to hormones jumping around, it still doesn't help. So you are not alone. I wish menopause would just come quickly so i do not have to deal with period time anymore. The jumping of hormones is the worse!! Hang in there!!!!!!

I feel really good for two weeks and then bad for two weeks. I try to focus on the good days instead of the bad, but I, like you have been dizzy headed, heart skipping around, anxious, headache, etc. I can't believe that this can last for years. Thank goodness that there is a place where we can talk and support each other.
HUGS,
Sandi

Hi Sandi, I hope this does not last for years with me. i am older then you and hope this passes quickly. I read in a book that peri-menopause can be worse then menopause so hopefully we have something to look forward too. Keep smiling!!!! Apey

I hope it will pass quickly for you. Then you can give me some hope. It sure doesn't seem fair that we kinda loose time of our lives being out of sorts. But, God knows what he is doing, and I'm sure we'll be rewarded if we can keep from killing someone through all of this.haha
Lots of hugs,
Sandi

All sounds so familiar ... I have never felt so anxious in all my life ...constantly feeling sick ...leading up to a period I've become almost suicidal ... Dr put me on Prozac felt some relief, then it started to wear off, told me to double dose, feel almost human right now ... Youv'e given me hope Apey, reading perimno is worse that meno, at least I know It cant get any worse, thanks ... I keep on saying to myself it WILL pass ...

Aw Sandi, sorry to hear you are having a bad day. I'm actually feeling migrainish myself. Has planned on working out tonight, but that's not happening.
That is 1 thing i DON'T miss is the periods. However, I still ahve all the anxiety issues to deal with.
WHOA ! So they say perimenopause is the worst ? Yeah, so I guess we have SOMETHING to look forward to with regular menopause then ??LOL ...good grief, will it EVER end !
Sandi--hugs to you ! You're a tough cookie and have helped me a lot. I'm here if you need me !

Hate to say this ladies,but it DOES get worse. I am through the peri,now the good ole menopause!! It has and is the worst thing I have ever been through-I always was spiritual,but lately I have even been questioning god. Why do we have to struggle for 10,15,20 yrs. of this emotional pain?? I have been suicidal lately,and I was never that way,and my medical dr. is an ob-gyn,and I wrote her a letter telling her this,and that I am scared to death I may take my life-and her answer??An appt. in 2 weeks-kind of a slap in the face when you are told to put suicide on hold!!I need hormones,and this isnt our fault-and yes I have tried 4 different anti-depressants,BUT its not that-MY hormones are out of whack!! I wish you all the best,and pray none of us do anything to harm ourselves. Seems so unfair and cruel,doesnt it? New to this:Korynne

That is disturbing that your dr can't do any better than an appt in two weeks. I guess we just really don't know what to expect. I'm just gonna sit back and pray for the strength to handle whatever is to come. Years ago, when the men worked outside the home and the woman stayed home (just as or more stressful) to raise the children, maybe it wasn't quite as hard to deal with because at least you were at home. Now, women have to work just as many and sometimes more hours than men and still have to go thru this torture along with raising children, taking care of the household, etc. No, it doesn't seem fair or just.

I dunno sdwill, I am a stay-home-mom and the more time I have on my hands the more time I have to focus on the anxiety instead of having something to take my mind off of it.

I have noticed a pattern that I am usually anxious between ovulation and my period. But my periods have been coming earlier and earlier each month and now I don't know when I am ovulating. This month my anxiety didn't show up until 2 days before my period and it hasn't gone away yet. It usually leaves the day after my period starts.

Have you tried Imitrex? It really took my migraines away within 10 minutes, but you need a prescription and hopefully you have a prescription plan because they are very expensive! I hope you feel better...