I have PMS type food cravings off and on, hot flashes, mood swings, bloating, constipation, memory problems, increased allergy symptoms, loss of sex drive, probably some stuff I can't think of right now.

I have tremors inside hot cold anxiety no sex drive loneliness emptiness forgetfulness achey knees tingling hands bloating burping costant afraid and nervous constipation but I know this too shall pass We are Women We are Strong We bounce back! Just dont know when!

I never thought about allergies being related to Menopause. I have tried a Chiropractor and got some relief from headaches and it helped increased my energy level.

Thank you all for sharing your symptoms! I I was convinced that I was slowly going insane. I have 2 main emotions: crying and fighting! Also have hot flashes, memory problems, depression, migrains, bloating, constipation, and severe loneliness and emptiness.

I have become a stranger to myself.

I also feel lonely and empty at times too. Even when I am with my family and friends.

I thank you ladies who have responded thus far.

Hang in there we will get through this.

I get this hot/burning/tingly sensation all through my shoulders that sometimes spreads outwards to my fingers. When a bad anxiety attack is coming on, it is like a wave that washes over my head and I get that hot/tingling sensation all over and a wooziness and slightly nauseous. I am also finding it difficult to focus and can get sad/depressed. I also feel overwhelmed at times. Hard to explain this feeling as it is more physical than psychological. Part of the anxiety/depression I guess. I get chills at night. Periodic breast soreness and cramps. total loss of libido. I think the anxiety is the worst though. I can deal with everything else.

I can't stand the anxiety attacks either. It takes me about 45 minutes to get over them.

Before my hot flashes I usually get cold and then at night I will have a bad one.. Then I am cool all the next day.

Moodiness sets in at times too.

Curious. Does this go away once Menopause sets in?

Hello Lims3, heres a website you can check out. You can find a lot of useful information. There are over 30 symptoms of menopause. There's also info on how to best manage menopause symptoms.


www.hystersisters.com

hope you find it useful.

I feel like I don't even know myself anymore. Yes, feelings of being alone even with family, feelings of irritation and wanting to be left alone, yet feeling sad when I am. I am on bioidentical estrodial but don't know if I'm absorbing, it didn't work transdermally. My anxiety is worse some days than others but always there. Sometimes I can get it under control with deep breathing or walking away, other times I have to take Xanax or Clonopin (which the dr prescribed for when I have a full blown panic attack). Taking Wellbutrin with Buspar, can't tell it's making any real difference. I have no interest in projects and my concentration is shot. Very negative a lot of the time and hate that, I was never this way before.

Hugs to all...somehow we will get through this!

To LeIc
Thanks for the website. I am already a member.

To all who have responded thus far thanks for your responses.
It helps to know that you are nor alone in this .

Hugs to all.

Mine are hysterectomy induced. Before getting a decent level of estrogen, I had suicidal depression, anxiety, insomnia, hot flashes, nausea, shakiness, loss of appetite, no energy, inability to concentrate, memory loss (to the point of being scary), MAJOR and RAPID hair loss and skin aging, NO sex drive or response, and absolutely NO interest or joy in life. I just wanted it to end. I lived for the end of the day when I could just go to bed yet I couldn't sleep more than 2 or so hours at a time because my body was on fire (with a memory foam pillowtop mattress to exacerbate it).

To add insult to injury, I was dealing with betrayal by my gynecologist who removed everything for an ovarian cyst to train gyn residents. Plus his office hung up on me when I called a few months post-op because the patch he Rx'd left me a total mess. IMO he deserves to have his balls cut off LOL!!

I used to be such a vibrant, happy person. Everyone even commented on it. My sisters sailed through menopause, no problems whatsoever. So they can't relate.

Glad we can vent here.

My anxiety is the worst symptom....because it brings so many other symptoms. I've never had anxiety before. Now I'm like an entirely different person. I was always on the go, I loved shopping, being with family& friends, taking care of my family...now everything feels like a chore I HAVE to do. I WANT to do all these things and I want to be who I was before or who I really am, but this anxiety keeps me from being me!

I also have lack of concentration, forgetfulness, overwhelming feelings, increased breast pain/soreness, cramps, these weird waves/sensations throughout my body that bring feelings of faintness/weakness (similar to what Kahlua13 described), dizziness, increased/severe environmental allergies that I've had for the past 4-5 yrs and have never had before, muscle pain/tension in head/neck/shoulders that may be from the anxiety.

However, I don't have the more common "hot flashes", atleast not yet!

Menopause is so unfair!

Sex drive- What is that?
Anxiety- Regular visitor
Night Sweats- 4 to5 days out of the month (right before period)
Memory- daily visitor of the where did I put_______ ? game. Or I get in the middle of a sentence and forget what I am talking about(very entertaining to the husband who rarely listens anyway)
Depression- visits often but I have to work hard to keep it at bay/ sometimes it wins but only temporarily.
Mood Swings- Seems to coincide with the night sweats-really irritating especially to spouse.
Bloating & Constipation-2 days before period
Day before period I get a surge of energy and want to clean the house...don't get very far when period kicks in and won't let me do anything.
Diarrhea- day of period
Period - painful, heavy flow extreme cramping but the only time emotionally I feel normal.
Strange that about the only time I feel normal emotionally is when I am in severe pain physically. Being female seems totally ironic sometimes.

I had been in menopause 2 yrs before my hysteretomy after this the symptoms come on worse.I never was put on any HRT because of the cancer.Ive got similar symptoms as the rest of you ladies.I probally got more on the way. It wasnt easy excepting the changes for a variety of reasons, but it is change going from one phase of life to another and when I accepted this I realized well I gotta go with it and do what I can and as the serenity prayer says:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

I take anti-depressants from the time I found out I had cancer in 2010,although I have had it a long time but thought the sadness would go away..& now my blood pressure is off the charts and had to change my eating habits..so one issue at a time is all I can handle.I cant remember anything anymore its scarey..I stop mid sentence cause I forgot what I was saying or where I was going..I fing humor in alot of it,but sometimes Im so distracted I will begin things in the kitchen and forget it next thing there is smoke or the alarm goes of..sigh*