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Will the GP even do anything?

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MoodPeriod · 02/03/2022 20:37

I'm wanting to make a GP appointment to discuss this but not sure if they'll do anything or just brush it under the carpet, has anyone experienced similar and had any help?

Basically I had my first child a year ago. Before that my periods were not that bad, bit of cramping, a little grumpy and bled for about 5 days. Nothing out there.

Since I've had him everything seems to have gone milder, I only bleed on and off for about 3 days, cramping not as bad either but my GOD my mood. I can't believe how much it's affecting me each month.

I'm not exaggerating when I say I feel so angry and depressed. I could easily get divorced/quit my job/some other drastic thing for that week and a half every month. And it's not until it's over that I realise how unreasonable I was being. I've gone as far as wanting to see a divorce solicitor for the slightest of things which just seem massive and make me so mad during that time that I'd genuinely laugh about any other time of the month.

I get so so mad and angry. If my husband gets on the wrong side of me I can be really nasty. Which is not nice to admit but I feel out of control.

Add to that the desperately low feeling I also have. How ugly I am, how fat I am, how I'm worthless, good for nothing and so on...

I'm a complete mess for a week and a half every month. It usually starts before the period and ends with it.

I don't know what to do. I panic every time I know it's due now. I'm a completely different person. Even my family has commented.

OP posts:
SpaceshiptoMars · 02/03/2022 21:14

Do you get back pain? Is your food getting stuck in transit?

Internal pain can make people unbelievably grumpy. Is that you?

pupcakes · 02/03/2022 21:42

Sounds like PMDD to me.

LeafyGreen333 · 02/03/2022 21:53

Definitely speak to your GP about this.

When my period returned after having a baby, like you, I was consumed by rage and irritability for around a week and a half each month. Unlike you my periods were extremely heavy, which was difficult to deal with while also having a baby almost permanently attached to me. Anyway, the GP prescribed the pill that you take every day - which stops you having a period at all, and I was transformed. I've now been on it two years and am free of both periods and the awful symptoms that went with it. Don't feel like you have to suffer with this - definitely speak to a GP!

Haggisfish3 · 02/03/2022 21:55

Totally agree with pp.

pupcakes · 03/03/2022 17:12

@LeafyGreen333 which pill, please? I had such a bad experience with my moods being much worse the last time I went on the pill. Good to know there's one that helps.

Choppingonions · 03/03/2022 17:16

I took the mini pill back to back and this problem went away. The downside-I felt about two degrees lower all the time. It was worth it for a time.

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 03/03/2022 17:19

Definitely see the GP!

BridgesofMadisonfan · 03/03/2022 17:24

@LeafyGreen333

Definitely speak to your GP about this.

When my period returned after having a baby, like you, I was consumed by rage and irritability for around a week and a half each month. Unlike you my periods were extremely heavy, which was difficult to deal with while also having a baby almost permanently attached to me. Anyway, the GP prescribed the pill that you take every day - which stops you having a period at all, and I was transformed. I've now been on it two years and am free of both periods and the awful symptoms that went with it. Don't feel like you have to suffer with this - definitely speak to a GP!

What's your pill called?
Nospringchix · 03/03/2022 17:41

Flowers for you OP. It sounds like you have severe PMS / PMDD. It's definitely worth a visit to the GP, you don't have to just put up with it.

The GP I spoke to about it a few years back explained to me that the progesterone produced during the second half of the menstrual cycle actually lowers levels of serotonin in the brain which leads to low mood etc, therefore antidepressants ( SSRI) might help better than contraceptive pills, as these all contain synthetic progesterone like hormones.

I personally found these helpful, more so than the combined and mini pills I has previously tried. The antidepressant I was on was called citalopram.

Original poster
MoodPeriod · 03/03/2022 17:49

Thank you so much for the replies. PMDD symptoms definitely sound like me! The overeating as well definitely.

I will make an appointment. I'd really rather not take the contraceptive pill if possible. I haven't taken hormonal contraception now for a while and much prefer not doing so.

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LeafyGreen333 · 03/03/2022 18:21

[quote pupcakes]@LeafyGreen333 which pill, please? I had such a bad experience with my moods being much worse the last time I went on the pill. Good to know there's one that helps.[/quote]
It's called desogestrel, it's the mini-pill. I wasn't keen on taking the contraceptive pill initially, but I think my options if I wanted to control my heavy periods were that or the coil, and I really didn't want to have a coil implanted!

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