flashes, chills and anxiety
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True about the small stuff. Read all the books and more for motivation. The difficult part is putting it into practice,not an easy thing to do for a type A personality.Definitely looking after myself more,not feeling as guilty taking time for myself and saying no to demands.Meditation is definitely an acquired skill which is still not within my grasp.The busy mind doesn’t want to be quiet and the harder you try the busier it gets.It’ll come in time. FurPaw > I don’t know the answer to your questions… the thing I found in – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> my forties was that I had to start paying a lot more attention to > dealing with stress than I had previously. Maybe it was the > cumulative effect of previously ignoring the stressors, maybe it > was the additional stressors of perimenopause, maybe it was > declining ability to "just cope". > Whatever it was, I found that I needed to learn to stop "sweating > the small stuff". Learned to meditate. Learned to catch myself > when I was stressing over something I couldn’t do anything > about. Learned that I just had to get enough sleep, that I could > no longer get by on a few hours. Still learning all this > stuff… > Hope this helps – > FurPaw
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -lblanch…@my-deja.com wrote: > In article <39ee6…@ecn.ab.ca>, > cece…@ecn.ab.ca () wrote: > > I have been getting periods of extreme cold spells where I just can’t > > warm up, then sometimes this will be followed by a hot flash, then I > warm > > up enough, and through all this are these spells of anxiety or feeling > > reved up. Anyone relate to this? Thanks. > I don’t get the chills, and I don’t get the anxiety. I also haven’t been > getting much in the way of hot flashes. However, some of my hot flashes > are preceded by an internal "shift" that feels a bit like an adrenaline > surge. I imagine that if I were worried about that, rather than simply a > bit bemused by it, I’d interpret it as anxiety or feeling revved up. > Don’t know if that helps or not.
Good insight, Laura, about not worrying about the physical sensation. "My thesis on the contrary is that the bodily changes follow directly the PERCEPTION of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the [p.190] same changes as they occur IS the emotion." and "If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its characteristic bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no "mind-stuff" out of which the emotion can be constituted, and that a cold and neutral state of intellectual perception is all that remains." (Do you run from a bear because you are afraid, or are you afraid because you run from the bear?) From "What is an Emotion?" by William James, Mind(9), 188-205, 1884. FurPaw
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Wing Lee wrote: > As for stress, sure it exacerbates peri symptoms. At this point in my life > my stresses are probably no different than everyone elses. Job stress, > looking at a career change, money, husband, teenagers, empty nest > (partially) etc………. > It’s all in how you handle stress. What I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older my > stress tolerance is much lower than in my 20"s. > Or are the peri symptoms wearing my tolerance down? Difficult to stay calm > and rational when you feel the brain’s so fogged it can’t think straight and > you feel like ramming your car into a brick wall.(on really BAD days)
Rosanne, I don’t know the answer to your questions… the thing I found in my forties was that I had to start paying a lot more attention to dealing with stress than I had previously. Maybe it was the cumulative effect of previously ignoring the stressors, maybe it was the additional stressors of perimenopause, maybe it was declining ability to "just cope". Whatever it was, I found that I needed to learn to stop "sweating the small stuff". Learned to meditate. Learned to catch myself when I was stressing over something I couldn’t do anything about. Learned that I just had to get enough sleep, that I could no longer get by on a few hours. Still learning all this stuff… Hope this helps – FurPaw
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In article <39ee6…@ecn.ab.ca>, cece…@ecn.ab.ca () wrote: > I have been getting periods of extreme cold spells where I just can’t > warm up, then sometimes this will be followed by a hot flash, then I warm > up enough, and through all this are these spells of anxiety or feeling > reved up. Anyone relate to this? Thanks.
I don’t get the chills, and I don’t get the anxiety. I also haven’t been getting much in the way of hot flashes. However, some of my hot flashes are preceded by an internal "shift" that feels a bit like an adrenaline surge. I imagine that if I were worried about that, rather than simply a bit bemused by it, I’d interpret it as anxiety or feeling revved up. Don’t know if that helps or not. Regards, Laura Blanchard lblanch…@aol.com Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -lblanch…@my-deja.com wrote: > In article <39ee6…@ecn.ab.ca>, > cece…@ecn.ab.ca () wrote: > > I have been getting periods of extreme cold spells where I just can’t > > warm up, then sometimes this will be followed by a hot flash, then I > warm > > up enough, and through all this are these spells of anxiety or feeling > > reved up. Anyone relate to this? Thanks. > I don’t get the chills, and I don’t get the anxiety. I also haven’t been > getting much in the way of hot flashes. However, some of my hot flashes > are preceded by an internal "shift" that feels a bit like an adrenaline > surge. I imagine that if I were worried about that, rather than simply a > bit bemused by it, I’d interpret it as anxiety or feeling revved up.
Good point, Laura. With adrenal responses, it can be hard to know which is the chicken (or stimulus) and which the egg (the response). Both hot flashes and chilly spells – when independent of the weather – fall into the category of "vasomotor symptoms." On a physical level, they’re – not malfunctions, quite, but *shifts* – in our body’s fairly complex systems of temperature regulation, and at that level, they seem to me to be part of a body-wide adjustment to the equally complex changes of menopause. On another level, count me as one more of those who finds that "stress," increasingly, is almost guaranteed to bring on a hot flash. And if I’m flashing a lot, that tends to increase the *feeling* of stress, setting up a nice little feedback loop. Like Laura, I often feel this as an internal "shift" or "rush" – slight, but quite distinctive. While I think of this as physical thing, it does produce the same sort of physical sensation as, for instance, a sudden scare. –Pat Kight kig…@peak.org
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<cece…@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message news:39ee6585@ecn.ab.ca… > I have been getting periods of extreme cold spells where I just can’t > warm up, then sometimes this will be followed by a hot flash, then I warm > up enough, and through all this are these spells of anxiety or feeling > reved up. Anyone relate to this? Thanks. > Cecelia
Yep, I can certainly relate: been there, done that – many times! Annoying & uncomfortable, but this is pretty common. IOW – you’re normal. 
I usually roast, if anything (I’ve been hyperthyroid, but am on med. for it now), so the days when I continually get the chills seem really weird to me. But then I’ll get a hot flash. Then back to freezing. And often get very jittery and/or anxious *just* prior to a hot flash – or just feel generally jittery; those anxious/jittery parts, I really could do without. Next to insomnia, they are my least favorite part of this whole deal. Cathy — "Decades gliding by like Indians, time is cheap." Paul Simon ("Ren
