to think my PMT is not normal?

[SonShines]

It's lasting a full 2 weeks now. I'm hopeless, no motivation. Nearly weeped this morning when DC didn't come in when asked. I feel like I loose all control. The house looks like it's been burgled, the DC had to make do with cheese on toast for tea, there's no shopping in. I just feel utterly useless, now I'll have a week of back cramps and feeling exhausted, then on to a week of feeling like superwoman, everything getting back to normal and sparkling, enjoying the kids, just in time for the cycle to start again

What's happening?? I'm sure it never used to last this long...

Please see your GP. You need a plan to manage this. Whether its though EPO and diet (and I promise I'm not a hippy - it really works for me!) or something stronger, you deserve your life back.

EPO?

My diet is relatively good... I don't eat a lot of meat/dairy and my diet is fruit and veg heavy. Never eat processed food.

I don't smoke and I don't drink any alcohol. Take very little in the way of medication, - as in, I don't like to even take paracetamol, unless I have a severe headache - I don't like to consume anything that might 'alter' me, IYSWIM. Fat lot of good that seems to be doing though...

I know exactly how you feel. Mine seems to take a month off every other month though.

But when it hits I am useless, I can't make a decision to save my life either. As well as the eating, fatigue, crying, mood swings, irritability the list goes on and on and on.

The minute I come on I am a different person, it's almost like a release iyswim.

I currently take 20mg of Citalopram for depression, I'm back on them after stopping and I can say that a particularly bad bout of pmt that did not go away led me back on them.

Even with the anti-d's the pmt still hits, so that may not be the answer. You do need to see your doctor and explain this to them. There is help available, and you need to weigh quality of life with the possibility of taking pills. As you say you would take a pill if you had a headache, this time you would be taking a pill to stop the pmt (or at least help) it's not really that different is it?

I had no idea that so many others suffered like this, my PMT has always been bad but it improved when I went on a diet so I think the sugar was causing ups and downs. However, since I had my baby 7 months ago I feel like its out of control, I argue with my DH (everything is his fault, even though it's not), I feel massive, my boobs hurt, I cry a lot, I can't see anything rationally and I'm genuinely shocked at myself when it's over. I actually worry about the extents I might go to if someone pushes me. And I'm not that kind of person. I'm going to get some EPO and pay a visit to my GP, it seems life does not have to be like this!