All of a sudden I am waking up with right knee pain. It goes away after I am out of bed. How in the heck can sleeping make my knee hurt?

I am 56. I was already on the lowest-dose of HRT when the bilateral (meaning, “couldn’t be that one old injury”), hip-to-foot joint stiffness manifested.

I doubled up my prescribed dose of HRT for a week or two — placing double patches, twice as frequently as prescribed. The pain 97% went away and I returned to baseline.

I told my menopause certified MD what I had done and requested an increased dose, which she agreed to do. I will not live like that and am willing to court an increased risk of certain cancers in order to maintain an optimal level of estrogen in my system so as to keep generalized 6 out of 10 joint pain at bay. Really.

I do walk about 4-5 miles a day, fwiw, which was a constant throughout this period. That’s how I immediately knew it was estrogen- related and not due to a sedentary lifestyle or similar

HRT, y'all!

Anonymous wrote:You all are making me feel better - still achy, but at least I’m not nuts.

It’s like the list of symptoms is “always these, but maybe everything goes to hell.” Haha.

Anyone know of anything to take while I’m waiting for my appointment with a new doctor?

Is it really a menopausal symptom? Putting every aging symptom on the list strikes me as being just as lazy about women’ s health as ignoring every symptom besides stop period.

I had frozen shoulder too, it was brief but I almost fell out of my chair when I read it was yet another symptom.

Vitamin d and iron has helped me with eh joint pain op.

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Anonymous wrote:Preach! I had a knee issue from a mix of running, HIIT and strength training 5 days a week so I took a break from that and did only yoga and walking for a few weeks. It was going well until I ended up with shoulder impingement/rotator cuff tendinitis and I just got a cortisone shot today. Interestingly, I read that estrogen plays a role in healing tendons so that explains a lot and I’m wondering if HRT would help.

Interesting. I got a frozen shoulder from a poorly placed covid shot and I was going through menopause at the same time. I guess that didn’t help.

Same!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Preach! I had a knee issue from a mix of running, HIIT and strength training 5 days a week so I took a break from that and did only yoga and walking for a few weeks. It was going well until I ended up with shoulder impingement/rotator cuff tendinitis and I just got a cortisone shot today. Interestingly, I read that estrogen plays a role in healing tendons so that explains a lot and I’m wondering if HRT would help.

Interesting. I got a frozen shoulder from a poorly placed covid shot and I was going through menopause at the same time. I guess that didn’t help.

+1. The same happened to me.

You all are making me feel better - still achy, but at least I’m not nuts.

It’s like the list of symptoms is “always these, but maybe everything goes to hell.” Haha.

Anyone know of anything to take while I’m waiting for my appointment with a new doctor?

Anonymous wrote:Preach! I had a knee issue from a mix of running, HIIT and strength training 5 days a week so I took a break from that and did only yoga and walking for a few weeks. It was going well until I ended up with shoulder impingement/rotator cuff tendinitis and I just got a cortisone shot today. Interestingly, I read that estrogen plays a role in healing tendons so that explains a lot and I’m wondering if HRT would help.

Interesting. I got a frozen shoulder from a poorly placed covid shot and I was going through menopause at the same time. I guess that didn’t help.

Me too! It much went away after a couple years, but I also started some anti inflammatory supplements and quit drinking (alcohol is very inflammatory).

Preach! I had a knee issue from a mix of running, HIIT and strength training 5 days a week so I took a break from that and did only yoga and walking for a few weeks. It was going well until I ended up with shoulder impingement/rotator cuff tendinitis and I just got a cortisone shot today. Interestingly, I read that estrogen plays a role in healing tendons so that explains a lot and I’m wondering if HRT would help.

Sympathy!! I’m 52 and very similar to you op. My ‘old bones’ are so achy! I’m beginning to walk like my 85 year old dad.

Yep. 48 and going through some of the same stuff. Estrogen is a very powerful anti-inflammatory so when it starts to decline, joint and muscle pain are common. I have low back pain for the first time ever in my life. Also super active and it’s very frustrating. Yoga helps a lot, but I’m definitely going to talk to my doctor about HRT options in the next year.

I haven’t been alarmed by the horrible sleep, erratic cycle, or occasional rage days. I was prepared for those.

The joint pain, though? It wasn’t on most of the lists of symptoms I read before actually googling “perimenopause joint pain.”

I’m active and flexible, so it’s pretty unnerving to have hip and should pain.

I’m switching doctors to someone who specializes in menopause. I thought I was fine without meds, but maybe it’s time?