How do you deal with your pms?

I am recently on my period. It's day 5 and I still have some cramps. When I ovulated, the cramps was even more worse. I'm also upset for no reason. Before my period, I can get angry and I take some things seriously. If someone ignores me, I can easily cry over that. What could I do to relieve the symptoms of PMS?

I take birth control to regulate the abnormal pain. I've never had mood swings while PMS'ing before.

I don't usually get cramps, but I do get soreness where the ovulating ovary is. What I have learned, since yesterday, is that when not ovulating the ovaries kinda go into this little relaxed mode, and when ovulating they raise a little more elevated. This is by virtue of going through an ultrasound, whilst both in an ovulation mode and one where I was actually having my period.

So, I wonder, if the cramping, isn't just all that estrogen and progesterone changes, but the moving of the ovaries, themselves?

Never mind, the endometrial lining of the uterus, moving all that unused baby insulating material from the womb and pushing it out?!

Our bodies, work, seriously hard!!!

Do you take any Tylenol or anything OTC for comfort measures?

I find, that my cycle, works in a tri-monthly cycle! One month, ugh, all I want to do is carb up and eat! Then one month, my lower back is sore and all I want to do is sleep, then the other month, I'm just at a heightened sensitivity level, much like this months cycle!

Do you chart it, on a calendar? Sometimes, it's a matter of just knowing yourself, to be able to just accept it, for what it is, and then from there, know when to cut back from various people, objects, events?!



Did you know, it can take 10-12 days from the moment the egg comes out of the ovary, to the final moment when we begin our periods?

I've had the most interesting experience in learning more and more about my body!! And how my organs work....

Oh, I forgot to talk about body distortion. This was something, I was more in tune with, back when I was placed on Celexa back in 2009. After a couple of months, of being on an AD, and really paying attention to my PMS symptoms, I was able to discover, how very real body distortion was for me.

And because body distortion can be very real for me, when I have PMS, I could finally see why I felt anxiety and depressive symptoms, this time of the month.

Even this month, I am 'feeling' a little bloated, but in the past two weeks, at the dr's office, I have gone down 1 entire pound!! Go figure, right?! I feel the distortion of my body, feel frumpy and everything, BUT...honestly, I LOST 1lb!! (that's .4536kg) I am not overweight, I am at a happy pant size, but wow, still, I have body distortion, and I just use my scale, to remind myself that it is not reality!!

Forgot to add that, to my previous post. It was the biggest *aha* moment for me, back then!!

Another thing, too, when married, I used to complain that I felt like a piece of myself was dying, at every period. Reality was, he was just being plain rude to me, as though it was my fault for mother's nature theme?! Because, then, when I was not longer with him, those feelings went away!! Hmmmm....

Hope you feel better, got to take care of you, when you aren't feeling quite your normal self!! Everything else, will fall into place, when you do! *hug*

I don't take anything to relieve the pain. I didn't really know what to take in the first place. Our ovaries moving sound not really pleasant :P I do note it down on my calender. Well just recently. I've been worried about if I was pregnant but my flow is just red. The first few days it was light, now on my 6th day, I saw blood and then no blood. But now, I think my flow is getting heavier. I saw no pink mucus or anything. Just red blood. Our bodies are interesting, I don't really take notice of my body because I'm busy with being negative and life.

The ovaries don't move that much, just enough that depending on the time of the month, it's more difficult to get a clear ultra sound picture. I've had two, ultra sounds, this month. One right at the moment of ovulation, and the other during my menses.

Tylenol, is usually the safe pain reliever option. Can always, ask your local pharmacist for recommendations.

Bright red, is only concerning, if pregnant. I can say, there's all kinds of color spectrums with periods. They range from, pinks and reds to various shades of browns. The reds vary in range from light to maroon.

I'm 26 years into having them, as of this past April. Feel like a pro, at this now

I learned that in between cycle 'spotting', is only concerning if it's a heavy flow in between cycles, then it could be an endometriosis concern.

Now, last night, I was trying to figure out why the computer generated videos of ovulation and my ultra sounds, weren't 'quite the same', and I am going with, the computer generated one, is guess work. Some science is still based on studies of animal bodies, not human bodies. Figured that out, as I googled images, hey wow, lots of horses and other animal female ovaries are out there on line.

And we women, wonder, why we get so irritable?! Hmmmmm.....

When the body is ready to send out the signal for the ovaries follicles to send out the message to pick the dominant egg, of the month, chemicals are released through the pituitary gland.

Now, if that gland is supposed to help with pain relief?! Maybe the signals get crossed in the process? It's also the gland that is supposed to help with water regulation. Again, signals mixed in the process?!

All these, things, and more, I wonder!!

I used to get the most horrific cramps at ovulation. I finally found that plain aspirin worked the best. It thins the blood, reducing the clotting, which is the reason for the pain, the clots trying to move through a pinhole.
Does that make sense to you? Sorry for the graphic comment, but it is how it worked for me...

I'm definitely not pregnant. I know for sure my period has ended. I see normal discharge. I was worrying for nothing. The intense panic caused my throat to become dry. I kept on swallowing and it wasn't pleasant. now, I've stopped thinking about it. I rarely recognise it. oh wow, it must be cool to have an ultrasound I will try Tylenol for the pain. I'm still 20 and I think I'm getting more experience with periods. hehe

It does make sense to me. I just hope next time I ovulate that I don't get such bad pains. When I'm on my period, they aren't as painful. It's just mild pain but it's not intense pain.

Ultra sounds, are actually pretty cool, indeed! They are getting better, every year, too! Now, the office has a TV monitor in the corner of the ultra sound room. And without have the tech or myself struggle to adjust their monitor, like it was just several years ago, with my babies, I can lay there and watch the monitor.

Of course, I was jovial, the first of the two ultra sounds, as it was routine for me due to family history issues, I said, hey, this is a lot different than searching around for a baby! You can see your ovaries and uterus, albeit, in black and white. And can even see, when they do this thing they do, oxygen and blood flow into the ovaries, which shows they are healthy and functioning.

Glad you are starting to feel better! It's normal to worry and wonder about our bodies.