Hi there, I am new, have question.

Welcome larkspur. I too notice that my hormones really affect my fibro. Makes the pain much worse. Don't know why. This is a great thread and I look forward to any answers that offer advice too.

lark,

 

First of all, welcome to the family.  I think you'll enjoy it here.  Anyway, I don't know if I'm perimenopausal, but I have noticed that I am way more painful around the time of my period.  For a while, I was crazy-just not a pleasant person to be around.    After getting my fibro dx, my GP increased my Zoloft dosage, and I must admit that it has helped with the craziness.  Unfortunately, I'm still really painful.

 

LOL-I don't know if anything I've said has helped, but as you get to know everyone here, you'll find yourself realizing just how much we all have in common.  Again, welcome to fibroland.  Please, enjoy the ride.

Thank you Kelly and Sherrine.
I appreciate the welcome.
I am not having a very easy go at the moment but I am an optimist and hoping to get a handle on it.
I have just developed migraines and I am due to go in for a MRI on Monday. My Dr. thinks that it is due to hormonal changes but wants to be sure there is nothing else going on. I am nervous that they will find out there is nothing in my head but one peanut and some cobwebs.
Oh well...

larkspur

Welcome Larkspur!
I am new to this forum too, but not new to fibro...dx 20 years ago and I am 57, so yes, went through menopause with FM and for me, it was tough. Since my early 30's I had really bad PMS and now, looking back, I wonder how much FM had to do with it? I was put on Prozac, because my PMS was getting longer and longer, until it was two weeks out of the month! I found myself thinking "I can understand how some women shoot people." I knew I was in trouble then, and that is when I started Prozac. I helped me ALOT. Then going through menopause, the crazies were back! I ended up on HRT, but stayed on it for less than two years, more like 1-1/2 years and again, that really helped the menopause symptoms. Unfortunately, none of it helped my fibro symptoms. I have a real problem with energy, or lack of it. Over the years, I have tried so many things, including acupuncture, natural supplements, prescription meds and the bottom line, at least for me, seems to be I just have to watch how much I do. That is so hard for me, even 20years later. I LOVE to exercise and there are days when I'm out walking, and just can't help myself and go three miles and then I end up paying for it for the next three days. OOPS! sorry! I really went off the track here...having one of those days...been stormy here today and I'm feeling it.
Good luck and welcome again,
Miriam

Miriam

Thank you so much for your reply. I know how that is. I really have to watch out how much I try to do.
Now that you are past menopause is it any better?

larkspur

Karen

Thanks for the hug. They are the best medicine of all.
"Thank you" to all of you who are making me feel so welcome.

larkspur

Miriam

Again, thanks for the help and the information.
I keep hoping that it will smooth out at some point.
I appreciate the encouragement.

larkspur

Hi Larkspur.  I just wanted to welcome you to the forum and tell you that I've already gone through all of that and the thing that helped me most during those years were mega doses of vitamin E.  Now there's controversy about vitamin E being hard on your heart, but so far I haven't had any heart problems and it did help the cause.

 

God Bless!

Shannon

Hi Larkspur and Welcome-

Mine was the menopause from "h_ _ _." I started menopause just before hitting 40 and I am 52 now. I battled 30 to 40 hot flashes a day for four years and I finally hit my bottom and gave in to HRT. It was like night and day after starting to take them. I know there is a lot of controversy re: this but it did change my quality of life for the better. This past winter we lowered the dose to almost nothing and I would like to be off them by next winter. For me the quality of life won out over the risks. I'm sure there will be more with their stories. GamJill

Hi Larkspur and welcome to our family. Since all this crap was dumped on me about the same time as peri-menopause I don't know what normal would have been. I know in my mid 30s to about 40 I couldn't stand to be around myself for a few days a month.

 

I'm glad you joined and you will like it here.

 

luv and hugs

Marlee

Hi Larkspur and many, many welcomes. Since I was 12 I prayed for menopause. Sort of joking, but not completely. I had a miserable time w/ periods and PMS. I finally had to have a hysterectomy 5 yrs. ago, but didn't go into menopause till exactly 1 yr later (kept my ovaries) I have terrible night sweats, moody, the whole thing. I can't take hormones due to breast cancer possiblities (my mother had it and it's a no no)

I try to keep busy, exercising and involved. It has helped to an extent. Just those blessed night sweats, oh, joy, oh, rapture!

Keep posting, this is such a good group. We can't make the Fibro go away, but we can all 'enjoy' it together. It does make it easier to deal with. Hope you have a good day.

God bless.  Alice