Hormone Levels , Menopause and Lyme ???

Three years ago when I was officially diagnosed with Lyme /Babs/Erlichthia/Bart/Mycoplasma/H Pylori/TB ( what a host body !! ) I had already started the erratic periods and hormone fluctuations my OBGYN diagnosed as early menopause ( I was 44 ). I had been sick for two years before the diagnosis - and was in pretty bad shape. about two years ago I had what I thought was my last "official" period ....and sure enough hormones tested as completed menopause.

Am feeling on top of the world after three years treatment : test negative for everything except Lyme and babs now - not taking any symptom control meds any more , just ABX and supplements , back to working out , working , etc - and actually looking forward to doing things again .

Thought nothing more of it until the last three months : where period have suddenly appeared once more out of the blue ! ( along with PMT and emotional swings - great !)

Have an appointment with an OBGYN next week to make sure that its nothing nasty ( don't you just HATE having to have this type of appointment - with all the weird and wonderful symptoms I think I now have more pictures of the inside of me than I have of the outside )

But I wondered - anyone else seen their hormones dramatically waver ...and then surge back ?? Anyone else whose periods stopped only to start again ?

hello! i was thinking of posting on this subject of menopause and lyme....i can't tell what's what. i'm 52 and started getting erratic periods when I got lyme Sept. 07. Didn't have one for 3 months, then started getting it again every 3 weeks, then skipped, then started getting them every 2 weeks, heavy, then light spotting once a month and now nothing for close to 2 months. I was feeling a lot better(energy, cognitition and have been thinking I'm probably getting close to coming off the abx (tested pos. for lyme and babesia) but then the last week i've been having sweats, anxiety attacks out of nowhere, muscle aches again, neck pain and insomnia. what's the difference between a hot flash and babs sweats? I get insomnia with pms as well as the mood issues. what's menopausal hormones and what's lyme? i guess i'll discuss with my llmd in about a week and also am due to see my gynecologist. so- i can relate!

Hi Janem:

My period went from regular to stopping completely after getting lyme.  I was 45 at the time. In fact, I thought all of my symptoms were due to menopause.  I thought to myself, geez I don't how women get through this.  Little did I know what was really down the road.  I'd take menopause anyday.

Good Luck, 

Big Red    

Janen
You poor thing! How long did your periods stop for? So, wait...they told you that you had menopause at 44??? And then your period started again????
Gosh, well, I have been told by on my Interns that his wife had lyme twice. But she is going through hell with her menopause.
Had Lyme..???
Any ways. I had always been normal..like every 28 days. I am 45 now, had my 2nd baby at 40. I had wanted to have more kids..but not with this thing in my body. It was these periods out of hell..that well. Bleeding for 10 days..and not being able to control it at all. Messy and really tiresome.
I was told 3 mos. ago that I was going through menopause..by one Dr... but as you know I am sure. If you go to 10 dr.s you will get 10....
Did you have your blood tested to see how your hormones leves are.
Oh gosh you just reminded me. It can make your period stop...like I thought I was pregnant..for a while.
I don't know. Lyme seems to love Estrogen and stress. Be careful with the fact that the pill will not work with abx.
They lyme just screws everything up. I had a sonogram last month. And my gyno said that she saw a huge growth. And that it was bleeding inside...she did a pap smear and showed it to me on the screen.
It was painful but turned out not be be cancer. yippie. Lyme seems to screw up everything. But I think it is harder on women. My only words of advice would be is to try to keep a record of your period, like write down when you start and end and maybe a few comments. And then keep that up and then see if you have a pattern.
My 12 year old is going through puberty and she is really having a hard time. Estrogen really seems to feed this bug.
I am sorry that you have so much going on....your poor thing. Hope you have a good support system though all of this!
There is a cure out there..just hold on.

Petman.
My gosh anemia..that is the word...lol
I was bleeding so bad in june, then aug. then in sept I had so much blood coming out of me that I would leave a trace on the floor. I mean, you can't wear pants..and well it was awful. It makes you week and dizzy and It was hard to contain. to hide...to control, to stop.
My kids were like...oh mommy are you ok???
One time I was bleeding so badly that I really could not get up. I was having to hold on and the room was spinning. I was like..how could I bleed though all of this tuff....ya know. But it turned out that it was not that end, but the other.
I did not know that taking so many abx could make me bleed out the other side...so I had so much blood coming out of me of both side. I don't know how much a person can bleed for two weeks before....
It was like after birth for me.

Our estrogen must be like a drug for the lyme. It loves that stuff.!

ktp812. keep it in your sight that you have lyme. And that it wil play all sorts of tricks to say that it is not there. It is not a stupid bacteria. And it loves to pretend to be everything else to get you off track.

how old are you? if you are 55, then bet it is meno. and your meno will be much worse than everyones elses because of your lyme.

raw ginger is good for meno.

antidepressants feel like a good thing...but watch out for the suicidal side effects.
It is confusing as hell. you go to 10 dr.s and depending on their specialty they will tell you a whole different story..
ha my gyno asked me how I was doing....she did not really want to hear it....she cut me off...in my long ass list of bs...and he stopped me....she said....gyno marie...
I said..hmmm...ok well...all she wanted to do was spread my legs and did a sono on me and asked about my sex life and birth control etc...gyno stuff
she did a ton a blood work on me and told me I was fine...except..oh by the way, you test positive for lyme...hmmmmm. but that is not really her concern for she is a gyno not an infectous disease dr.
even though she did lose her best friend and her little boy to lyme. they both had strokes.
so she then was very curious. I told her to go back to school. or read a book...for I do not have time to educate dr.s not with the huge amounts of money they charge me.
my female phyciatrist told me that i was going through meno...but then my MD told her, no...my hormones checked out fine....
I have had such many test and so much blood work done...wow....
read up., and know that you have a much better understanding of what is really wrong with yourself. And you think out side of the box. don't let then make you question yourself.
It is maddening and a huge waste of time...but guess we all have to search and kick down a lot of doors. what else can we do? sit back and cry...no....

I have been having NO periods since Babs and Lyme and chronic gut problems and skin problems ever sine and horrible weight and illness, fatigue, can't sleep. What makes it hard is I homeschool a special needs child, and I don't have the energy anymore to do it, plus menopause symptoms, chronic sleep problems, gut problems and nasty weight gain. I haven't been this big since the last time I was five months pregnant. I don't think I can be pregnant since I have already been perimenopausal and are only nine months away from my 50th birthday! I have started exercising again but previous intolerances I had, like lactose, beans, onions, etc and sensitivity to fiber has only GOTTEN worse. I am tired and hungry all the time and have no energy and I frustrate my special needs child because I can't engage like before and I just think I am not as "interesting" and "fun". I am not sure I could have been this way for the gifted one, either. I don't know what to do. People say, get more sleep, each a less irritating diet, but that would require major changes it seems the others are not willing to do. It's really getting me down. My spouse doesn't understand I NEED a BREAK to recover. I NEED HELP. Not just "time heals all things", not "we just don't have the money" I literally don't have the ability to function anymore. I am willing to exercise more and make diet changes, I have started, but I need more sleep, more help in teaching our special needs kid, more change to the diet, not just a little. Everyone likes onions, I can't handle them even well cooked. My sweet spouse made a dinner last night with none, but it had beans and even after a little I felt SICk and gassed ALL NIGHT and couldn't sleep as I was up every 60-90 minutes in the BATHROOM! My special needs kid is FRUSTRATED with me because I find it hard to teach and do things he finds interesting. I really need some time to myself a couple of hours a day, not just for exercise, but to relax, take a slower pace. I want to see a doctor but all I hear "not yet.." No I need to see one NOW and I NEED HELP. I can't even carry on today, it seems. I need more than just a "you'll get better." Sure I will but I am really suffering NOW. It sounds hopeless, it's not, I just don't feel good at all today and needed to vent!

Post Edited (Mims) : 1/16/2017 11:36:48 AM (GMT-7)

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