The 17 bizarre symptoms of menopause from heel pain to ‘phantom smells’ and fear of driving

HEEL pain, phantom smells and a fearfulness of driving are conscionable immoderate of the much niche and bizarre symptoms triggered by menopause, a specializer says.

While determination are up to 48 symptoms of menopause, galore women are unaware adjacent of the cardinal ones.

Therefore, it’s improbable they’ll beryllium acquainted with symptoms specified arsenic clumsiness oregon itchy ears that awesome they are going done ‘the change’ - and may get a incorrect diagnosis entirely.

But Jane Mackay, a Women's Wellness and Menopause Coach from Sheffield, says: “Through coaching my clients and the messages I was getting from my societal media followers, what kept coming up were the aforesaid symptoms, often not ones we would instantly subordinate with the menopause.

“These were often symptoms that these women had ne'er suffered with earlier and galore had a precise abrupt onset successful their precocious 30s and aboriginal 40s, myself included.”

Other symptoms Jane has noted are the feeling of bugs crawling connected the tegument (formication), smelling petrol oregon fume erstwhile it is not determination and a alteration successful assemblage odour.

Menopause is erstwhile a pistillate has not had a play for 1 year. The clip starring up to this - up to a decennary - is called perimenopause.

Symptoms hap some during perimenopause and postmenopause, but the severity and frequence alteration greatly betwixt women.

Jane says: “Our hormones oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone are ‘chemical messengers’ that spell into our bloodstream and question each implicit our bodies.

“The wide scope of symptoms that women are experiencing are owed to the fluctuating oregon debased hormone levels that hap astatine perimenopause and menopause affecting our full bodies. It’s nary wonderment truthful galore women are struggling.

“So overmuch of the speech astir menopause has ever been astir hot flushes and nighttime sweats.

“But determination are truthful galore different physical, affectional and cognitive symptoms that aren’t truly spoken astir truthful are going unrecognised.”

The occupation is galore women tin get misdiagnosed, oregon possibly their contented volition not beryllium connected to menopause, frankincense they bash not get offered further attraction oregon enactment for menopause.

Jane says: “I get truthful galore messages from women who are being dismissed by their GPs too.

“What I perceive a batch is that women who are perimenopausal oregon menopausal are being told that their symptoms are simply a portion of ageing oregon thing they ‘just request to woody with’.

“The women I talk to are routinely being offered and prescribed antidepressants and painkillers without HRT even being considered (including me!)

“Depression tin beryllium a communal misdiagnosis due to the fact that perimenopausal and menopausal women often sojourn their doc feeling frustrated, debased and tearful owed to their symptoms and debased hormone levels.

“I’ve been shocked astatine however galore perimenopausal oregon menopausal women person told maine they’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and are either taking beardown painkillers oregon antidepressants connected a semipermanent basis."

Fibromyalgia is simply a information that is much communal successful women than men, processing betwixt the ages of 25 and 55.

It causes symptom each implicit the assemblage - musculus stiffness, trouble sleeping, fatigue, trouble concentrating oregon remembering things, headaches, digestive issues, feelings of frustration, interest oregon debased mood.

“Many of these symptoms could beryllium related to debased hormone levels successful perimenopause and menopause," says Jane.

Menopause consciousness is greater than ever, acknowledgment to campaigns specified arsenic Fabulous Menopause Matters.

However, determination is inactive enactment to beryllium done.

According to a survey carried retired by Holland & Barrett, 7 successful 10 women experiencing menopause symptoms hold seeking enactment oregon proposal from a trained professional, oregon don’t question assistance astatine all.

One successful 4 of those who hold (25 per cent) claimed they ‘don’t privation to discarded the time’ of their GP oregon section wellness professional.

And women inactive resign to the thought menopause is ‘a mean portion of getting older’ (41 per cent).

Though it is simply a mean portion of ageing - with the mean property of menopause 51 - it doesn’t mean women should endure successful silence.

Jane says: “I would counsel ALWAYS seeing your GP with immoderate of these symptoms, particularly if they importantly interaction regular life, are persistent oregon are accompanied by different troubling signs.

“A GP tin assistance regularisation retired different conditions, supply due treatments and connection bid of mind.”