Anyone else have strange menopause symptoms? Feeling like I have the flu and a sinus infection?
Last summer my gyn ordered estrogen, FSH and LH testing. I am 53 and had a hysterectomy (kept my ovaries). I had been having night sweats and I wake up at 3:00 a.m. every night, on the dot, and lay there for hours. My estrogen was normal but FSH and LH were high. She offered me HRT. I didn't take her up on it because I could deal with the night sweats and not sleeping as I had heard taking HRT isn't good for you.
Fast forward 7 months, the night sweats have gone away, I have cold spells where I am absolutely freezing even if it's 80 degrees outside. Still wake up at 3:00 a.m. Here are my weird symptoms. Back in Feb I got what I thought was a sinus infection. Was told it was viral. 3 weeks later, still feeling awful, now thinking it's allergies so they gave me more allergy meds to take and an antibiotic just because it had been 3 weeks. Antibiotic did nothing. Allergy meds are doing nothing. I also have aches like I have the flu. Not horrible but just feel blah and my lungs/back/chest "aches".
After 3 MONTHS of this, I Went back to the doctor. Definite noticeable mucus in my throat and in my nose but my nose is not "stuffy" and the throat mucus has caused a horrible cough for weeks. He sent me to an allergist. She did all the allergy testing, I am allergic to NOTHING. No wonder the allergy meds didn't work. She sent me for a CT scan of my sinuses. The results are that I have a little inflammation in one sinus cavity. I am waiting for her to message me next steps. She thinks it could be non allergy sinusitis. While researching that I came across hormonal sinusitis. Basically saying out of whack hormones can cause flu like symptoms and sore sinuses that feel like a sinus infection.
Anyone else hear of this or have similar symptoms? I messaged my gyn and if I was in person I am sure she would have looked at me like I had two heads. She responded she was sorry I was feeling that way but it probably wasn't hormones and to come in for an appointment to discuss it further. I also asked my daughter who is an ER resident and she said she had never heard of it either. Anyone? Just me? I am just hoping that it's menopause and I can fix it and I'm not dying of something else!