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[cowboyup]

It also helped to take B6 vitamins, and to exercise. I love your openness.

Thank you. So, Vitamin B6 helps?

From the posts here, at least I don't feel so alone. I turn into a totally different person I feel and by what has been posted, this is fairly common. I remember a time when I was younger and I felt my body took it better, if that makes sense. But now that I am closing in on menopause at a relatively early age, I feel I've gone haywire!

Your blog is great

 

[dottie]

I used to mark my calendar in red- that in those 6 days my emotional state was not to be taken seriously.

THIS. and for other peoples' well being!

 

[Lea]

I have negligible periods but PMS whole year round.

 

[Srijita52]

Sometimes my PMS does make my SA worse. I'll get more anxious than usual and I'll get really depressed.

My mood swings can be really bad sometimes while on my period though. One day I can feel great all day, and will be really happy. The next day I usually end up feeling extremely depressed and unmotivated, don't want to see anyone or do anything. On those days I tend to just eat my feelings with chocolate everything. On other days though I feel a whole fluctuation of depression, anxiousness, irritation, happiness, and anger. Sometimes I get to the point where I feel so angry I want to break something. I don't since I fight the urge, but it's pretty bad. I get pissed off so easily and I pretty much just yell at my family and/or ignore them. I don't know why or how they put up with me.

Same here, although I'm not sure if its just PMS though since I'm pretty much like that all the time.

 

[razzle dazzle rose]

But I remember- I used to mark my calendar in red- that in those 6 days my emotional state was not to be taken seriously. So- somewhere- in my brain- when I would have these extreme reactions- I could say to myself- remember- your emotional state can't be relied on as accurate right now.

I think that is good advice for me, even on days when I don't have PMS. My feelings can be quite extreme at times and not necessarily an accurate read on the situation.

 

[LazyHermitCrab]

I have it now. I'm pretty irritatable and paronoid around most people all the time so i guess it just increases it slightly >.>

 

[WeirdyMcGee]

I get excruciatingly painful cramps where I can't move for 3 days out of the month-- I've been told my mood generally doesn't change much from day to day though, as far as PMS goes.

And I haven't noticed my anxiety getting better or worse around that time of the month, either-- I just generally want to curl up into a ball and die.

 

[Nathália]

I get excruciatingly painful cramps where I can't move for 3 days out of the month-- I've been told my mood generally doesn't change much from day to day though, as far as PMS goes.

And I haven't noticed my anxiety getting better or worse around that time of the month, either-- I just generally want to curl up into a ball and die.

:: So sorry you don't feel as wonderful as you are.
That sounds so painful to generally be that way,
too bad you're dealing with it.

I go through bouts of depression, but when my days come one I do feel like dropping off the Earth x 10.

 

[Lonelykitsune]

Yep.

Thing is though, I don't notice but everyone else does. There is just a few days were I really cannot tolerate any bull**** and my family gets me lashing out. My mum and sister are the same though so its fun in our house when we all have it.

The period itself is worse as I feel really sick and have bad pains that I can't ignore.

 

[Labyrinthine]

My period turns me into a lunatic. I get seriously irritable, and the slightest thing someone does could very easily send me over the edge. It bothers me that I realize I get like this but have no clue how to cope, other than avoiding the world and its occupants. XD

I found birth control helps a lot though.