Has your body over the last few years started to go a little (or a lot) wacky? Feel like you’re falling apart but know you’re too young to feel this way? In your 30’s or older? Have several symptoms and they seem unrelated? No, it’s not in your head. It’s in your hormones!
The bad news is… this may be normal. And the good news is… this may be normal. Basically, it’s just like that saying “life happens.”
You, my friend, may be in… da da DA… (dramataic pause)…………… the early stages of perimenopause. And you thought it couldn’t happen to you!
More good news though… you can help alleviate the symptoms you might be having, like this whopping list:
- abdominal bloating
- agoraphobia
- aggression, anger, rage, resentment
- alcoholism, particularly pre-menstrually
- allergies
- anxiety, nervousness, irrational fear
- arthritis, joint and muscle pains
- blood clots
- breast tenderness
- bruising and capillary breakage
- chronic fatigue – muscular weakness, procrastination, exhaustion, tiredness, mental confusion, difficulty in getting up after enough sleep, lethargy
- clumsiness
- cold hands and feet
- constipation
- cracked heels
- cravings, eating disorders, binges, inability to tolerate long intervals without food
- cysts – breast and ovarian
- dizziness
- depression – loneliness, uselessness, endless crying, irrational behaviour
- fibroids
- guilt
- hair loss and excessive facial hair
- headache
- hot flushes and night sweats
- hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar)
- hypothyroidism
- incontinence
- insomnia
- irregular menstrual flow, heavy or light flow
- irritability
- lack of self confidence and esteem
- libido loss
- memory loss
- mood swings and irritability
- nails – flaking, brittle and weak
- osteoporosis
- palpitations
- panic attacks
- personality changes
- skin problems-dry skin and early ageing of the skin
- sleep disturbances
- tension
- urinary tract infections, cystitis
- vaginal thinning, dryness and itching
- violence-verbal and physical
- violent dreams
- weight gain
- water retention
