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- I was recently diagnosed with cyclothymia. Since this condition has all the same symptoms as bipolarism, but the levels of the mania of the highs and lows are not as severe, I tell folks that I am "bipolar light". LOL.The lows, however, involved...
- Again. The Morning Fight again.The Morning Fight is me waking up between 5 and 6:30 (I don't have to get up until 7)...headache, neckache, often intermittant dizziness, and a strange feeling in my digestion that grabs my emotions and twists really...
- A quick history: brain trauma at 21 resulting in epilepsy; accepted and dealt with that. Then at 45, menopause hit with everything it could throw at me; including long, debilitating depression. I finally went on hormone replacement therapy with ok...
- Hi. I've been on the Menopause support group for a while. After I started taking Hormone Replacement Therapy, all seemed to be fixed, then months later, stuff would go downhill. We've adjusted the hormones twice, but the Depression is the main thing...
- I have been post-menopausal for two years now (last period was Sept 2012, officially in menopause Sept 2013). After almost 9 years of SEVERE symptoms, getting 35 out of the 37 symptoms, I finally broke down and started HRT. A week later, things...
- I'm on Day 8 of my first flare-up. How long do yours last, and how the heck do you get any sleep?
- I'm a 53 yr-old epileptic mom. Menopause and depression had taken over my life for the past 10 years, and I started taking hormone replacement therapy which has finally evened me out. Last Thursday, I noticed a little knot under my left shoulder...
- Check out "The Madwoman in the Volvo" by Sandra Tsing Loh! I'm really enjoying it (and it's nice to read something FUNNY about what we're going through, for a change)!
- Those of you who've known me these past...what..10 years or so, know how I've posted many discussions and journal entries of my peri-menopausal, menopausal, and now post-menopausal experiences. These include feelings of going crazy, total lack of...
- This is a prologue to my last entry under the subject "Preparing for the Bouts in between the Bouts". In it, I touched on how important it is for us to spend the time that we have when we're feeling Normal, doing things to lift our spirits and make...
- As most of you know, between perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause, I've been going through this for about 9-10 years now. It's starting to slowly ease up, but I still have bouts which can last anywhere from a few hours to several days, and...
- Having been on this rollercoaster for over 9 years, I found that rest was the number one thing that I need to get over bad days (sometimes hitting pillows, often crying also helps). But I found that depending on how Bad I am on a given day,...
- I had a bad couple of days- unending sorrow and anger, screaming yellow headache, neck ache, shoulder ache...ah, hell EVERYTHING ached! stomach upset...you all know, the usual stuff. Being in the house with the husband and the teenager, there was...
- Is anybody else out there wishing you could just pack your bags and leave your SO and any kids you have and go somewhere else? It's only natural; we are so very needy at this time in our lives that to suddenly not able to be the Emotional Anchor...
- I have epilepsy as a result of a bicycle accident when I was 21. Am currently taking Carbatrol and Levitiracetam, which somewhat controls the seizures, but I have a blood disease in the family and I don't want to take more medications and/or higher...