hormonal misery

i am having a hell of a time and i am certain it's hormonal. i have BPII but the misery is too predictable, too cyclical and i can say what mood i will have by the calendar week. i am beyond frustrated.

my GP keeps changing my bc pill and before someone asks, yes, i have gone without them altogether. i take them to keep me regulated and to make periods easier/shorter. He keeps moving me from one to another, and they are all low estrogen as near as i can tell. Alesse, yazmin, etc

i also wanted the bc pill because at 34 i developed really painful facial acne just around my jawline. No acne stuff has helped and it appears in the third week. None of the bc pills made it go away except yazmin, but yazmin made my mood problems really bad.

i stopped my last pack of alesse because i couldn't stand the intense PMS anymore. Of course now, two weeks later when i would have had a period anyway i am going through it all over again.

i need to see a gyno and i was supposed to get a recommendation letter from my pdoc asking my gp to refer me but he went on vacation. Now i am stuck like this for at least another month.

what do you all think the problem is?

What medications are you on?

Have you had your thyroid checked? Thyroid is almost always one of the first things my doctor checks when I have problems like these. Its just a blood test. I recently went to my doctor too, because my PMS was getting SOOOO bad, and my energy levels were in the negatives. She put me on Aviane, low dose bc similar to Yaz. PMS symptoms have lightened up but I too have that horrid acne. When I read that I was like OMG ME TOO!!! Its terrible, around my jawline and chin area, and sometimes right around the nostril. They hurt something aweful. It doesn't seem to be getting any better. I've always had acne in that area around my period. I'm really wishing I could try that stuff that the celebrities promote...grrrr what it is.....you know that stuff that Jessica Simpson does commercials for? Why can't I think of the name....anyway have you tried that?

I think what your thinking about is called Proactive.

Yep! I saw a commercial on it and was gonna run home and type it lol!

(((hugs))) Please consider an allergist. What many medical doctors throw meds at, an allergist can balance your system for... yes, an adverse reaction to the hormones in your own body. Progesterone nearly killed me, and caused horrible adult acne too. Once I had my system desensitized for it, I was fine for some 30 years.

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i don't have a thyroid anymore, haven't for 10 yrs now. Well, i have a teensy little piece, but i am on synthroid. Allergy tests showed i am allergic to maple pollen and dust. i am meticulous about the dust and i run a hepa filter all the time. i do get very fatigued when my allergies act up. One suggestion for anyone else with allergy troubles is a saline spray.

i take a variety of meds for a few diffferent conditions but none of them started around the same time as this stuff... and the predictablility with the periods is the big hint i think. Like now, two periods almost back to back, within days. Ugh.

bc pills have not helped but i think it's because they keep dropping the estrogen instead of raising it. i am going to be begging for a referral to a gyno at wed's appt.

with bc pills:
week1= several happy, "normal" days
week2=slip into depression
week3= deeper depression with suicidal feelings
week4= about the same as week 3

without bc pills (and assuming a regular 28 day cycle which lately may or may not be the case)
week1=happy
week2=deeply depressed
week3= irritable and even aggressive
week4=sobbing, weeping, unreasonable emotion-based decision making.

somebody kill me.

the meds i take are:
lamictal 400mg, clonazepam for RLS and it's PRN, synthroid, lyrica, aerius, losec

((((((( gerber ))))))

I do hope you get the referral on Weds. Maybe a different kind of bc is needed! I hope they figure something out for you.

thanx. i hope so too. In order to get through work today i had to take midol. i was bee-itchy, and ready to cry. Y'all know it right? i am living in permanent PMS.

gerber, I cannot take BC pills because they play havoc with my moods. I get extremely depressed and then I get very manic. It is hell. Before I figured this out, as a young woman, I attempted suicide. All due to BC pills. These are powerful medications and if they make you moody, please consider another means of birth control.

I have bad acne and take oral antibiotics to keep it under control. Topical prescription creams do nothing for me. Have you tried oral antibiotics?

gerber,
I'm menopausal, so i can relate to the hormonal ups and downs. I went to a compounding pharmacist that tested my hormones over a whole cycle and now I'm on bioidentical hormones, which are natural hormones that have the same chemical structure as the hormones in our body. I feel much more balanced, even with my bipolar. There are some doctors that believe in natural hormones and will test your levels. Sometimes it's hard to get balanced on synthetic drugs, especially when it comes to our hormones. Hope this doesn't sound like medical advice, it might be worth it to just look into it.

i tried proactive by the way...they make the bottles look alot bigger than they really are...they are pretty much the size of your middle finger..maybe alittle bigger than that....and if you want protactive to work...you have to be on a contiuning scheduale if you miss one night of it ...your screwed and you have to redue the whole cycle again..and it takes like three weeks....i got through week one....and i was so busy and between getting off at a 2 am ....or 5 pm....it just was really hard to try and get a correct scheduale going..so i never saw the affects....id really just use some sort of facial cleanser...i get bad acne...and i started using Saint Ives aprocot facial scrub...and its great...i use it twice a day ...or once depending...and i also use Oil of Olay Oily/Cominabation skin mosturizer with spf 15 ...its really great...and your skin does start to clear up...you just have to be really strict with it.....and it will work....but honestly ...you really have to be a i will do it every day religiously kinda girl for protactive...heck i cant even match my socks right ...and they expect me to have a scheduale to wash my face...i dont think so....

no, it's fine. My GP was useless....again. My pdoc, bless him, listens much more intently to me. He knows what my BP is like and this is different. He did a lot of compendeum checking and talked a lot to me about how I felt about the choices. i love that about him. ANyway, we settled on starting with premarin. He said he in no way feels i am perimenopausal or anything. He said to do the premarin for two weeks and if i see no change or whatever, i am due to start prozac then. Something has to help. This is awful. i now cry at work, i am really angry a LOT of the time... this is horrid. If none of this helps i cannot survive. i can't. This isn't life.