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Postpartum symptoms

I’m an older FTM at 37 and really struggling with postpartum in a physical sense. I’m now 18 months pp. however experiencing symptoms like women going through early menopause.

Awful hot sweats, achey joints, swelling in hands/legs/feet. Absolutely vile mood swings, low mood, fatigue and brain fog. The list is endless. I’ve seen doctors and on paper I’m healthy but my body is definitely screaming otherwise at me.

Has anyone experienced anything similar postpartum and is this normal. Will things return to normal or has pregnancy triggered some kind of early menopause!?

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Have you asked your doctors to check if there is any autoimmune issues? The hormones changed a lot during pregnancy and after, which can trigger autoimmune issues. It took my doctors a year to figure out

I have been having extreme fatigue, joint pain (feet the worst) hot sweats etc too i just recently had blood tests done for something else and it seems some liver enzymes were high so they did more tests and also something else came high that it could be related to a autoimmune liver disease so waiting for more tests now to confirm. Just wanted to share as I found it could be related to what was said in the comment above

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