@raspberrytorte & @Lady Shadow
Sorry about the irritation and anger you are having. When I get that way, everyone is in my warpath, and it's not pretty. raspberry, sometimes you can get PMS type symptoms around ovulation, I have, noticed it in the past when I was trying to conceive. I wouldn't doubt that gets worse as you get older too.

HUGS to all the rest of you struggling.

My period is due soon, but I hope it holds off b/c I have a gyn. appt. Aug. 12, and my ob/gyn is one of the top in the area now (back when he delivered my daughter he was just starting out, but I knew even then that he was really good). Now, it's hard to get an appt. soon enough that I can predict my period b/c my period sometimes comes every 27, 28 days and sometimes a week or so later and I have a lot of spotting which isn't great for the pap smear.

I had an appt. with my pdoc this morning. No med changes, come back in 2 weeks. Ugh, I wish he would have given me a month and told him so, but he said not this time, maybe next time if all goes well. Grr, the person in front of me when I was checking in got to make his next appt. in 3 months not 2 weeks.

I'm dealing with washing machine issues today. I can wash my clothes but have to be there until the machine fills up and manually move it so it will agitate. And since it fills up in the beginning and the middle of the wash, I can't stray too far or the machine will overflow again. All of my towels are soaked, rag towels too (and I have a LOT of rag towels). If I get everything washed & dried today, it will be a miracle.

The washing machine issue has got my anexiety & panic very high; it's a miracle I managed to drive myself to the pdoc this AM and home again. It was really hard to concentrate on just breathing, reminding myself it was only a panic attack and I was NOT dying. I'm going to make some chamomile tea after posting this. I need to calm down. If the tea doesn't help, I can take an extra hydroxyzine prn and I do have 25 mg Seroquel I could take after lunch (the Seroquel is not prescribed but It was prescribed when I took this same general basic of medication so it will be OK, I've done it before). I shouldn't do that for the low dose Seroquel, but if I can't get clonazepam for panic attacks, I need something, and the pdoc doesn't want to prescribe any more medication for me than what I'm on now.