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Wondering if anyone is successfully taking HRT for perimenopause.

Had a hysterectomy two years ago, I am 39 now. I have no idea how to tell if I am going through true perimenopause yet. I want to say yes but I keep thinking maybe not.

Any ladies in here who started HRT or knew it was peri after a hysterectomy? How did you know?

Okay so, does having IIH somehow allow you to defy the laws of physics? I have been doing all the things to drop the weight, I should be down AT LEAST 25 pounds by now but I am down…. 5.

I know how to drop weight. The only thing that has changed here is now having IIH.

I feel like I am going nuts, I am in a massive deficit now and the needle is still not moving. It bas been months and I am starting to get real frustrated.

Anyone else have this issue?

I had a little success with intermittent fasting, might try it again. Feel like I have to go to extremes just to get a little weight off. 😭

I am a bit of a loss. My five year old will not part with any of her things. I have been on a hard stop no new toys or games until we can part with some old toys for six months now. She still asks for new toys and we tell her essentially no, that we have no room.

I have no idea where this all came from. I thought it was a phase. She not only remembers everything she has but notices when things she hasn’t played with for years are gone. I tried quietly removing some things thinking she would not notice and that was a mistake. I have since tried to show her in many ways that giving up old toys is a good thing. We have some little things she “earns” with a chore/reward system to show value. I am out of ideas.

Has anyone run into something like this before? How did you manage it? I really don’t push the issue but she gets super upset that we are not getting anything new. I would like to buy her some more age appropriate things but we actually have no where to put them.

ETA thank you all for the input. I got some solid feedback and a suggestion that I am going to try. I think this is a very important issue for her so handling with care is important.

So probably not related but I wonder if anyone has ever heard of such a thing. Shortly after started diamox I noticed little tiny red dots kind of all over, more on my arms and chest but some on legs as well. Lately I have been getting intense, seemly random pains. Tonight I noticed a quarter size deep purple bruise in an odd spot I had been getting pains in. I am sure it isn’t related but the timing makes me wonder. Have a neuro apt on Monday so going to bring it up.

Was diagnosed over a year ago, we were not looking for celiac as I had none of the symptoms. As soon as I wake up I was given the news and blood tests were ordered. I cleaned up my eating and replaced half my kitchen. I never had anything happen so I actually went back to my GI and asked if he was sure because I was having a hard time believing it.

Well we moved and everything became chaos so I lost ability to cook and did my best with outside sources. Everything was going well until I started to eat an appetizer and realized this was for sure wheat.

The next day I had some tummy troubles, that never happened before! I also broke out in rashes…..??? Is that a thing? little like quarter sized spots that get kind of itchy. I have another condition and I feel like it got much worse and is taking way too long to return to baseline.

How long does it take you to get over accidentally consuming gluten?

Just a vent. I am sooooo sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I have been in a bad flare all week after moving and I forgot how much it hurt my neck and head before medication. I can’t even sleep it hurts so much. Every time I look down in any capacity, pain and trigeminal neuralgia (something that only happens when my pressure is high). I can’t even walk around outdoors its so hot. Tried to go to target for a super fast in and out and it destroyed me. The heat was so bad I was loosing my lunch by the time I got home and I got so weak like my legs were jello and my body weighed 1000 pounds.

Moving messed up my diet and I may have accidentally consumed gluten (I have celiac) so I know there maybe other factors but damn. Plus I just feel better on a cleaner diet. I hate IIH! It is ruining my life right now.

Moved last week and my schedule got a bit more busy with appointments and I feel like I hit a brick wall at 100mph. I have not even done that much but I am struggling so hard. Anyone else find everything difficult and have a hard time getting even small tasks done in the time they used to?

I think the worst part of realizing life is fleeting is knowing I will never know the universes secrets. Stupid I know. I want to know.

Anyone else have a hard time with driving?

Moving and packing in the Texas heat with IIH is bullshit. Been trying to pack for a month and still have some much shit to throw in boxes before the movers show up in a week. Prices are bullshit, moving sucks, rant over. 😂

For some time now I have felt a throb in my back I could not figure out the source of. I think it might be coming from inside my spine, not my head just my spine. Is that something anyone had ever felt before?

Hi all, I am 38 female, this is a bit long I apologize and I hope my ramblings make some kind of sense.

When it comes to PT and specialized scoliosis treatment, what should it feel like and what should it NOT feel like?

At 33 I had a baby and began to have so many issues, but biggest things were pain in all forms including nerve pain and muscle spasms. No one could tell me why despite years of going to doctors and even the ER a few times.

Last year things really got spicy. I was left disabled, completely unable to do much. housebound, couldn’t drive, walking was hard, severe instability in my pelvis had me walking ataxic, etc

I switched up my team after months of waiting and I was being evaluated by neurologists, sports med, ortho, and two primary care doctors. All of them were finding things but no smoking gun. No one can really find anything but odd patterns of damage. Recently my primary was having me walk and asked if I have scoliosis. I said no, I was an athlete and have had many physicals, no one ever flagged it. She sent me for evaluation.

I need images but from what the evaluator said I have scoliosis, something with my SI joints (cant remember what he called it, they’re out of alignment or something), and piriformis syndrome. Now I am enrolled in a program for scoliosis.

I have had one session and I feel very weak and unstable in my pelvis with these stretches. Core feels way more stable but my right glute and tailbone and a very weird nerve pain going on. Not the first time I have felt this but makes me nervous it is coming back when loosening things up. Its like the more I mess with the right leg the worse it gets. Nothing crazy but I am afraid. Never want what happened last year to happen again. Felt like my body just broke apart.

Does IIH take a while to get the memo about weight loss?

I had IIH symptoms for 3 years post baby. I knew something was deeply wrong but didn’t know what. Doctors brushed it off over and over again. When I finally did push hard to get the weight off I lost 25lbs when things got weird. I was unstable on my feet, weak, then a sudden severe headache. I was so weak and in pain that the doctors performed a LP looking for O bands and other things in my spinal fluid when, boom opening pressure 30.

Medications have improved many symptoms I was convinced couldn’t be from the IIH and still have a hard time believing.

So now I am thinking, I was getting that weight off fast. I wonder if my body just didn’t get the memo or if anyone else experienced weirdness when losing weight.

It has been a year and I am finally going for the loss again, I was way too scared after last time. I am hoping being medicated this time will help me get it done.

What was your weight loss experience like?