[SlatkaMala]

Hey PMDD, Cousin from Hell:

How I hate you very much. Ya know? Sometimes I hate you even more than Aunt Flo. Aunt Flo may make me feel like dog crap physically, but you, PMDD, make me feel like diarrheatic dog crap with corn bits in it both physically and mentally. PMDD, you are a piece of snot extracted by Satan's left nostril.

No love,
SlatkaMala and all the other ladies who you torment with your unwelcome visits.

How many of you ladies deal with PMDD? How do the symptoms manifest for you? For me, I am SUPER weepy. I will cry at anything. I end up feeling extreme depression, sometimes if it's bad even suicidal. I end up feeling like everyone hates my guts and wants me to go away. I don't want to leave the house. I cry cry cry all the damned time. I don't get mean with PMDD, but I am just really weepy, clingy and kicked in the gut depressed.

My Pdoc has been scratching his head trying to figure out how to fix this. So far no luck. Have any of you gals found a way to fix this?

[lone_twin4]

Mine starts about a week and a half, maybe a week, before my period. I get very weepy, very anxious, and angry too! I basically don't want to see anyone, I keep thinking people are talking about me behind my back, get very anxious driving the car etc in case it crashes... and just cry and shout at people all the time and get very depressed!! What I have found is that I either have pain or I have these depressive symptoms. If I get pain I am pretty happy, and when I'm not I don't feel it at all. I think there's some research to show that the hormones kick in to prevent pain, but I can't find the place where I read that! The downtime is bad as well. I get sad after my period too.

Apparently Evening Primrose Oil helps, though I have such trouble swallowing the capsules that I haven't been taking it regularly enough to tell if it really does. Some people also reccommend St John's Wort. I find keeping a diary helps, it helps to track your mood and also helps just to write it down. My doctor said that she sometimes reccommends Prozac, but that to me sounds like a terrible idea and I'm not willing to take it really. Basically I just wait it out and this is really not a useful reply at all!! I hope you can find something better to help you

[2MuchCoffee]

If it's affecting your life enough, Prozac or another appropriate anti-depressant could be a good idea. Worth talking with your doc about.

I started my period VERY young and have always had very painful and emotional cycles. Taking calcium supplements regularly can help with pain. I have also had good success with acupuncture treatments prior to my cycle starting and during.

The other thing I found was that my thyroid was a little under-active and as soon as I began medication for that, my cycles became much easier to handle, especially the emotional symptoms.

Best wishes to you!

[Monday009]

Originally Posted by SlatkaMala

Hey PMDD, Cousin from Hell:

How I hate you very much. Ya know? Sometimes I hate you even more than Aunt Flo. Aunt Flo may make me feel like dog crap physically, but you, PMDD, make me feel like diarrheatic dog crap with corn bits in it both physically and mentally. PMDD, you are a piece of snot extracted by Satan's left nostril.

No love,
SlatkaMala and all the other ladies who you torment with your unwelcome visits.

How many of you ladies deal with PMDD? How do the symptoms manifest for you? For me, I am SUPER weepy. I will cry at anything. I end up feeling extreme depression, sometimes if it's bad even suicidal. I end up feeling like everyone hates my guts and wants me to go away. I don't want to leave the house. I cry cry cry all the damned time. I don't get mean with PMDD, but I am just really weepy, clingy and kicked in the gut depressed.

My Pdoc has been scratching his head trying to figure out how to fix this. So far no luck. Have any of you gals found a way to fix this?

I used to have unbelievable PMDD so I know where you're coming from.
You mentioend your Pdoc. What doc is that exactly? Because if it's not a Gyno you need one.
Have you tried birth control pills. Not for birth control of course but to even out your hormones. I know it helps lots of women. I personally tried several but it didn't work for me. I was set try to try the pill that lets you have a period like four times a year but I wound up getting my ovaries removed so that wasn't necessary.
Not that I"m recommending that! There's a lot of other things to try before that and I went through years of trying them. I also had other medical reasons for having the ovaries out. In my case it did help my PMDD.
But do some research I know there's a lot of diffrent thins that can help and you have to find what's right for you.
As others have mentioned there's certain antidepressants that help PMDD.You don't have to be depressed for them to help. There's birth control pills. There's Lupron, but that's something you really have to read about first to see if it's for you. Some women love it some hate it. I was on it a while prior to losing my ovaries and it did help me with the PMDD..unfortunately you can not take it steady and have to go on it for a few months, then off of it for a few months on it for a few months etc.
But there's stuff out there that might help you . You need to find a good doc/Gyno that understands how bad PMDD is making your life, and do some research on drugs , herbs, meditaion etc. that might help.