Depression

[Fibrofighter39]

Remember me?! Probably not
I am the one who took eltrolate and all if a sudden was crying for no reason

It started in 2021... lasted for a month and then it was on and off... sometimes i feel like crying for one day or two then it goes away
I have been feeling ok for a while ..my brother in law had an awful accident in Nov
It was a rollercoaster for us..perhaps this contributed to the bad feeling

Last week i started feeling heavy and i wanted to cry... it is still going on. I also feel that my body is weak and my shouldres are heavy.. i dont know if this fibro or my depression
I started taking magnesium and vitamn d two days ago .. i read that they help in cases if stress and depression
By the way i havent had my period for two months ( it has been on and off as well) and i started feeling like crying around the time i should have gotten my period not sure its related

 

[sunkacola]

@Fibrofighter39 .............as I said in my responses to your other posts about this, I think it might benefit you to seek out a mental health counsellor/therapist. Since you identify as being depressed, it seems to me far more likely that this is causing your wanting to cry all of the time than that it is being caused by a medication you took years ago.

Serious depression and/or stress/anxiety can cause a woman to not have regular periods. But this is something you really need to have checked by a medical doctor, in case it is being caused by a physical health issue.

Please see your doctor about all of this and let us know how it goes.
I wish you all the best.

 

[SBee]

Hi @Fibrof39
I agree with @sunkacola and the above reply. Only thing I would query is whether some of the emotional side, the lack of periods and crying. Could it be a hormonal thing as well as the depression? I got fierce cyclical mood swings all my adult life that took me ages to realise they were linked to my periods.
Also whilst I dont know your age or circumstances ( no ones business but your own, you dont ever need to share anything you dont want to) could it be peri or hormonal fluctuations?
I would agree with sunkacola that you would be best speaking to a medical professional, just to see what is going on and how best to help you.
Do take care

 

[Fibrofighter39]

I have talked about this with two psychiatrists, and i do see one regulary ! I am diagnosed with depression ! I did talk about this with her but she didnt seem to provide a clear answer of why this happens .i am 43 , so not having a regular period is pretty normal ( i did see a dr about this) i dont neglect myself whether physicaly or mentally. I seek for help whenever i need it. No dr was able to give an answer! One psychiatrist said that the meds has wet my depression ... which is us sth i did not understand

 

[sunkacola]

One psychiatrist said that the meds has wet my depression ... which is us sth i did not understand

I don't understand "meds has wet my depression". What does "wet" mean in this context?

At the age of 43 it is not at all uncommon for your periods to be uneven or for there to be long periods of time in between one and the next, as your body prepares for menopause, so if you have consulted a medical doctor about this and all seems well I wouldn't worry about that. It's completely normal.

Glad to know that you are seeing a therapist for the depression. Very often people with depression feel the need/desire to cry often or all the time, so that is perfectly normal as well.

I did talk about this with her but she didnt seem to provide a clear answer of why this happens

I don't understand what you are referring to here......no clear answer as to why what happens?

The uneven periods or the wanting to cry? There's no answer to why depression causes someone to want to cry all the time.....if you are depressed that is just one of the things that happens for some people. For others, depression shuts down all emotions and makes it impossible to feel anything.

 

[Fibrofighter39]

Thanks fir the answers
The thing is that i fo have a desire for life i clean, i cook and i go out .. i slso plant in my garden and listen to music i dont and wint let this crap win
Once i sit around ppl i dont have the heavy feeling like when i am alone ... so many things going on
My missed up periods, my brother's in law 'accident... they all piled up to make feel like hell
But i will win this i am sure

 

[Frizzybee]

I'm not sure it was the fibro, but I went through menopause at age 44, and I'd started hot flashes at age 37. make sure they check the FSH hormone level and don't let them say you are too young for that. I cried a lot too. I also had awful migraine headaches, about 5 times as many as before, but they went away permanently once Menopause was over. I hope you can get to the bottom of this.

 

[Fibrofighter39]

I'm not sure it was the fibro, but I went through menopause at age 44, and I'd started hot flashes at age 37. make sure they check the FSH hormone level and don't let them say you are too young for that. I cried a lot too. I also had awful migraine headaches, about 5 times as many as before, but they went away permanently once Menopause was over. I hope you can get to the bottom of this.

My messed up cycles started at age 38 , i am having headaches i did not have before... the desire if crying is still going in .. going into three weeks now.. still no period ...plus hot flashes ... its an awful feeling

 

[sunkacola]

My messed up cycles started at age 38 , i am having headaches i did not have before... the desire if crying is still going in .. going into three weeks now.. still no period ...plus hot flashes ... its an awful feeling

This definitely sounds like menopause to me. For some people it comes earlier than it does for others. I recommend you see a gynecologist about this and see if possibly hormone replacement therapy is right for you. I used to think that taking HRT was a bad idea for women, but then someone I knew very closely tolerated years of terrible symptoms before, during, and after going through menopause, and finally decided to try HRT. It changed her life for the better overnight. Something to consider.

 

[SBee]

Unfortunately until quite recently menopause and perimenopause was a closed subject. I cant say about other countries, but in the UK it has finally been a subject ( that affects 51% of the population!) that has been more widely spoken about, and the impacts it can have on women.
Of course we are individuals, and some women may see very few symptoms during this time in their hormonal cycle.... For others it can have almost unbelievable difficult symptoms that can seriously affect a woman both physically and mentally.

I feel almost ashamed that I knew absolutely zero information about perimenopause and menopause.
I too did not agree with the thought of hrt. But my severe MH symptoms in particular, brought on by hormonal fluctuations left me no choice. I wont go into details ( but will always speak with anyone about this if they think it may help them)

Due to the severe nature of menopause, my GP believes that this hormonal stress is likely to have brought on not only fibromyalgia but also worsened the start of inflammatory arthritis. Now my hrt has left me pretty stable after several years of hell, I have no intention of ever coming off hrt unless for some reason it would have negative effects to my body.

 

[sunkacola]

Due to the severe nature of menopause, my GP believes that this hormonal stress is likely to have brought on not only fibromyalgia but also worsened the start of inflammatory arthritis.

This is known to happen, and is one of the reasons that I have changed my attitude towards HRT. I think that for any woman experiencing severe menopause symptoms it is something that should be made available and considered. In the long run, it is better for a woman's body to have that, even though it is a synthetic hormone, than to go through the stress on the body and what it might create.

 

[SBee]

My thoughts too @sunkacola and although hrt is a synthetic hormonal form, many of the newer types of hrt are body identical, so mimic closely the oestrogen and progesterone found naturally within the body. So its as close as possible to the hormones that decline with age or surgically induced menopause, and can cause such severe symptoms.

I also need to take a quite high dose of levothyroxine, yet another synthetic hormone replacement due to hypothyroidism. Something I will need to take for life. Our bodies dont always give us the easiest of rides when they go off kilter in the hormonal balance side!

Hrt is not suitable for some women, nor indeed tolerated by all women. The side affects and adjustment of doses etc can be hard to tolerate.

But we all know that any individual can choose to research and decide with careful consideration if any medication, for whatever health condition, be a path they wish to take. Using and benefiting hugely from hrt certainly changed my attitude towards its use too.

 

[sinkorswim]

Remember me?! Probably not
I am the one who took eltrolate and all if a sudden was crying for no reason

It started in 2021... lasted for a month and then it was on and off... sometimes i feel like crying for one day or two then it goes away
I have been feeling ok for a while ..my brother in law had an awful accident in Nov
It was a rollercoaster for us..perhaps this contributed to the bad feeling

Last week i started feeling heavy and i wanted to cry... it is still going on. I also feel that my body is weak and my shouldres are heavy.. i dont know if this fibro or my depression
I started taking magnesium and vitamn d two days ago .. i read that they help in cases if stress and depression
By the way i havent had my period for two months ( it has been on and off as well) and i started feeling like crying around the time i should have gotten my period not sure its related

I have been feeling the same way recently so do feel for you. It always starts in winter and could well be Seasonal affective disorder. I just find my mood shifts dramatically and I have to really push through the feelings of apathy so it does not completely take over my life. I don't really talk about it to anyone so its great to be able to share how I feel here!