Question for the ladies

Does your symptoms get worse right before your menstrual cycle? I've noticed that with me, all of my symptoms come back full force a week before I am supposed to start. I started taking the Depo Provera shot a year ago to stop my menstrual cycle because I just could not function. The fatigue is already a bad symptom of mine but it gets worse around my cycle. For whatever reason, I started bleeding again(a little), and I have all the symptoms of a period. The fatigue is killing me. I can sleep 12 hours a day. I have a little brain fog and my entire body hurts, especially my muscles and my hands.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone else gets this too?

LOL Jelaine. You make me laugh everytime. I do own a gun, LOL. Never wanted to use it yet though, haha!

On a more serious note though...did you do anything to get through this? I swear, all I want to do is sleep. It does this to me for about a week and I get my days and nights mixed up. I was actually thinking about not taking the Depo shot anymore but this monthly spell I had reminded why I DO take it, LOL.

Thanks for responding and making me laugh. I needed that.

I've read about bio identical hormones and was considering trying them but my mom told me when she was younger, she was on it and felt like she was dying when she tried to come off of it. I think maybe the doctor she was seeing at the time didn't know enough about how to mix it and gave her too much. But either way, it scared me, LOL. I've talked to other people that were on it and they were doing great. I would much rather be on bio identical hormones though than ever take synthetic. There are way too many symptoms and scary things that can happen on synthetic. I don't think the bio identical hormones stop your period though and that's what I need right now, LOL.

SpazTick,

Thanks for the information. I truly feel like I cannot function at all when I'm on my period. I already can't function from Lyme. My cycle just made it worse. It's getting better. I'm not hurting as bad anymore. I'm not sure why I even bled a little and had symptoms because I haven't had a cycle in over a year. I waited a little longer than usual to go in and take the shot. That could be why. My body may have to get adjusted again. It definately sucked though. The fatigue is what makes everything so much worse. I'm missing pretty much all of the day and can't sleep at night. Blah!!

yes yes yes Cajun.
The lyme just loves the hormones and stress of pms...and loves menopause too.
Sleeping 12 hours a day and waking up dead tired...yes...the rule with lyme.
Most cannot get up.
And most cannot sleep either.
It would be helpful to you to go back and read all of the post on this...this was posted before.
But never mind...it is too hard for you when you feel like crap.
I also had such heavy bleeding at my time, that is was like after birth. Very embarressing to have it running down my leg and hitting the floor...even within minutes of adding all of the stuff to stop the flow.
For the crazy pain...and for the fatique...go on cymbalta and you will at least feel so much better.
It will not cure you, but you will be abe to function.

cajunGrl

I was on cymbalta 30mg 1 daily and for me it wasnt good, after taking it i was either in bed or my recliner for the rest of the day.felt like if the house was on firer i would just have to burn couse i couldnt get up to leave it. needless to say i'm not taking that ever again.

Okay, this published study is a tad long; but if you read it a little chunk at a time, and then re-read, it begins to make sense. It explains and answers why women feel so badly during their cycles when complicated by Lyme. It relates, as always, back to the immune response and in our case, depending on the season of life we are in and how settled our hormones are - the fine line between estrogen and progesterone.

http://www.lymenet.de/symptoms/cycles/evalsum.htm

Hope this helps.
Homeopathic European protocol is helping our daughter through a living nightmare experience of years of this. Now, we are beginning to see some indications of the rusty wheel moving b/c we are oiling the right parts!

By the way, Cajungirl - Hashimotos Thyroiditis of 30 years. Your anti-TPO antibodies need to be monitored; hope ur doc is doing that 4 u. Heth is the next generation and we are trying to prevent this from becoming the autoimmune thyroid issue for her. She is hypothyroid but we are slowly but surely moving her back to the center. She is 18.

Blessings,
Sojourner