[AAAAA]

That time of the month is rapidly approaching and already the stress, anxiety and paranoia is setting in. You’d think after 30+ years of this I’d be used of it, but it’s still a problem every single month (or more accurately whenever it comes, sometimes more sometimes less). I KNOW that these irrational feelings are the result of the hormones in my body running amok but it doesn’t make it any easier. It’s so difficult to gauge what is real and what is hormone related now.

[Lost71]

((((((((AAAAA))))))))) ...me too, hun.

[jerrymichele]

I'm sorry AAAAA, I hate mine, and every single month it triggers me. I just tell myself tomorrow will be better. Advil and hot tea with honey for me helps. It might help you to.

[Rhapsody]

((((((( HUGS ))))))) ~ ~ ~ ~ ((((((( HUGS )))))))

Sorry to hear that one of the so called "wonders of being a woman" has decided not to play nice (not that it ever did)... I find that eating two pieces of dark chocolate per every day of my period and taking 20mg Celexa greatly reduces these feelings for me - now I no longer have to fear that dreaded week of every month.

((((((( HUGS ))))))) ~ ~ ~ ~ ((((((( HUGS )))))))

[AAAAA]

Thanks so much! This is a particularly bad week for me anyway, the anniversary of my father’s death is Wednesday and I have obligations that I just cannot postpone. You’d think that I’d somehow be more prepared because I KNOW it’s the hormones, but I just cannot trust my emotions right now.

I also do not sleep well at all during this time of the month, this is new. Even though I'm exhausted I have trouble sleeping. It used to be the only time of the month that I was able to get any real quality sleep. Anyone else have have trouble sleeping because of this?

[jerrymichele]

Yes AAAAA I have lost sleep over it, and of course everyone hates being around me, because I'm just crabby. What is really bad is all the pressure I have right before I start. I feel like I'm going to explode.

[theotterone]

I keep wondering, since they had my uterus out of my body when they took my youngest daughter (my girls were HUGE!) and they were tying my tubes (both girls were not planned and high risk) why OH WHY did they not just take it with everything else?!?!

Unfortunately, I had to fight for them to even "tie my tubes" even though this was my second child, second high risk pregnancy and third pregnancy while on some sort of contraception (I lost my first one at 18). I was 28 and married to the father of both our daughters, who at the time I had been with for 6 years. He orignially didn't want kids, but was ok that we had our two. OOPS! !

I digress, my cycles are messed up now from being on Adderall for ADHD. My last cycle was a week late, had killer headaches and lasted a day or two longer than normal. I so wish there was some way to skip cycles without being on birthcontrol hormones! (They tend to spike my tryglecerides). I can do without them, the hormone headaches, my ADHD symptoms being worse and being cranky! Can you tell I just got done with this?

[AAAAA]

Has it always been this way? Have our foremother's suffered from this as severely as we have and we're more informed now or are things getting worse?

[theotterone]

You know, this may offend some (and I am sorry if it does) but it goes back to the Adam and Eve deal. I believe it happened (though I tend to believe that Adam at first and therefore learned to blame Eve, but again, I digress). What ever the reason, as women we get to deal with it. Some say we are biologically superior since we are the ones who carry our young into the world. (Thank goodness, both my girls were early, and thanks to their gender, their lungs were fully formed as girls tend to develop in the womb quicker than boys). Unfortunately, all we can do is talk to our doctors about the symptoms and see what science may have accomplished to reduce them. Our mothers experienced much the same thing, and so will our daughters. We can only prepare them and pray they cope better than we!

I hope it gets better!