THE HORMONAL EXPERIENCE 🌸💕
So, I am 38 and this is a little glimpse into my period and ovulation experience…..
Our periods are marked as WEEK 1…
I wanted to encourage everyone from my experience…..
So, to remind you, your normal! and everything is ok, and it shall pass :)
5 days before my period I get very very emotionally low and I feel so bloated. In my 20’s I didn’t ever know what this was never mind how to manage the low… In my 30’s the lows were too bad that I decided to get an APP called “Fertility Friend” and track my monthly cycle. When I arrived 5 days before the possible coming of my period I could feel my emotions begin to drop dramatically. Before I had this APP (or any fertility tracking APP) I wouldn’t have any idea how to cope to to speak. I would just sink… for anyone wondering what does it feel like, for me it feels like a deep sadness/ so so low emotionally… when I got the APP and seen “oh, Ok. Ok, I can see I’m 5 days away from my period and for the last many many months it is in and around these days I begin to feel this low! This helps me sooooo much. It doesn’t take away what I’m experiencing, but THAT is what it is RIGHT THERE….. “experiencing”.. i am reminded “this will pass in a few days! Hold on” as well as feeling so terribly low, I also get a splitting head ache for 1 or 2 days around that 5 days before period mark, and I enter into what I would call, an extreme exhaustion. This exhaustion is rather debilitating and when I try and do “normal” things like…… walk…. My whole body aches, almost like the feeling of how your body feels when you’ve got the flu… that heavy sore skin and muscles feeling….
The night before my period (it’s marked on the fertility APP calendar and my body is like clockwork, so I am sure to know it arrived within a day or 3 of the “marked time”)… let me back track, I KNOW my period is coming the next day as I begin to feel sensitive in my lower tummy, I want to cry at anything, the world feels like it’s ending and all I can do for the remaining 24 hours on earth, is, eat salty things, white things, red wine and sugar!!! And my clothes barely fit by this point, as I normally gain 3ilbs.
This all happens 2 times a month as I experience (yes! That word again, EXPERIENCE… because I know these feelings will pass!) so finally I am prepared for the symptoms to come!
It normally happens 5 days BEFORE my period and when I bleed (which becomes are week one of our cycle) I have relieve because I think “yes! I wasn’t a maniac it was only the little hormones in my beautiful body preparing)
I normally experience the same things a few days before ovulation also. And AT ovulation I normally feel the egg being released. That is also very painful. But again, I know it’ll PASS!!!
Woman keep going! Our bodies are absolutely fantastic! Soloed your beautiful self! Be sweet to yourself as you experience it all! It will pass 😉
Tips during these days…
*Last of water
*Try to remove as much high sugary things and stick to dark chocolate and fruit when your crying on your pillow that life is over but really your hormonal)
*While wheat bread when you want a toast binge attack!
*Rather than coke cola or 7up, try sparkling water with no sugar diluted drops in it
*walk! Yes exercise even a bit. Berating in the fresh air no matter the weather WILL lift your mood!
*remind yourself “this is just an experience and it’ll pass in a day or two”
*watch your mouth…. Anger may be something you get but remember to watch your mouth and be kind. When you can’t remember to say sorry 😉. Or just stay away from other humans! Haha
*accept that you’ve gained 3ilbs and you feel like a wild boar haha… it’ll be peed out soon!
*watch a movie and let yourself cry! Haha
*tell your self your amazing cause you are and if you don’t feel like it or believe it, we’ll I am saying it NOW…. “WOMAN you ARE AMAZING”!
hugs and loves ,
Cara