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To wonder if anyone else is this dopey when pre-menstrual?

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LookingThroughTheFog · 22/10/2013 16:59

I am, honestly, a reasonably intelligent and sensible creature, apart from, about 5 days before my period hits, I start behaving in the most batshit ways!

My classic trick is to make cups of tea without boiling the kettle first. I'll stand at the tea-station muttering obscenities and bashing the teabag with the spoon wondering why the bloody hell it won't make the water brown. Then I'll suddenly realise and have to march out to the kitchen sink, still muttering, to empty the lot and start again.

I usually lose a combination of two or more of the following; my watch, my glasses, my wallet, my phone, my house keys, my car keys, the car.

This month I've excelled myself. I was soaking in a hot bath (because Mother Nature deems my blood pressure should sink to the floor before my period, so I'll be freezing as well as stupid) and looked to the corner where the bath plug usually sits.

I got cross. Clearly DS has been up to his old trick of pulling out the plug and flinging it across the bathroom so that nobody can find it again. That's why we agreed it should sit on that corner. So we can bloody find it. Mutter, mutter mutter. I touch it with my foot, and realise that's where it is.

I thought, because I'm a complete numpty at the moment, 'I'd better just but it back where it belongs, so we can find it again.' It wasn't until the sound of the gurgling drain hit me that I realised the extent of my numptiness.

Please someone tell me I'm not alone in this! Surely I'm not the only one who has these moments of 'what the hell do I think I'm doing?'

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SomewhereovertheRainbow02 · 22/10/2013 17:01

I dont have to be pre menstrual to do things like this!
The older im getting the worse it becoming! Im 32 Confused

LookingThroughTheFog · 22/10/2013 17:25

I just pissed about on MN for so long I forgot to put the dinner on. DS; 'What's for dinner?' me;

Maybe it'll get better again, Somewhere? When we get a bit older still?

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Binkyridesagain · 22/10/2013 17:37

Its not because you are pre menstral, its because you have kids!

There is no way I am blaming my hormones, it can't possibly be them because I am perfect and there is no way my body would do this to me.

Walking into the living room trying to find something that I am absolutely adamant I had put down in their not ten minutes ago to find that it has miraculously jumped into my hand is a regular occurrence.

sparechange · 22/10/2013 17:40

I walk into door frames and the corner of my desk and other hard objects.
I don't think they've moved, I don't think I've suddenly grown an extra few inches of width, but I become incapable of judging the gap I need to get past something without crashing up against it to leave a nice bruise on the outside of my thighs

mizu · 22/10/2013 17:57

I am incredibly clumsy the week before my period and as a teacher often get bruises on my thighs from bumping into the corners of tables Grin

Also forget everything, lose things, you name it. All this on top of being knackered beyond belief, pissed off at the slightest thing and greasy haired makes me a joy to be with Grin Grin

aaaahyouidiot · 22/10/2013 18:00

Oh yes, a professional degree is a meaningless bit of paper the week before my period. I become a gibbering loon with blancmange for brains. Clumsy too. And fly into a rage about everything. It's a lethal combo.

honeybunny14 · 22/10/2013 18:01

I always bump in to things when im pre menstral i stutter too cant get my words out right and just so clumsy

LookingThroughTheFog · 22/10/2013 18:04

Oh God, the clumsiness! I tried to use a mooncup, honestly I did, but within a few months it became clear I lack the coordination to handle a small, slippery object filled with something I really don't want to spill when I'm having a period.

I could do it fine when I practised mid month. When I'm actually bleeding I didn't stand a chance.

Once when I was folding it it pinged out of my hands, onto the floor where it bounced like a psychotic rubber ball, and rolled away under the cubicle door. Thankfully, I was the only one in the loo at the time, but still. For some reason it felt so much worse than the several occasions when I've had a tampon suddenly spring from my hands to land somewhere I can't reach.

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LookingThroughTheFog · 22/10/2013 18:06

Thank you all for making me feel not-alone!

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OnTheBottomWithAWomansWeekly · 22/10/2013 18:07

My handwriting goes crap just before and during my period.

Co-ordination - what's that? Bumps, bruises, every desk corner attracts me like a magnet.

Plus the cold - fleece pj's, bedsocks, 2 duvets, radiator on in bedroom (and sometimes I get out and put on my dressing gown too)

The tiredness for the week beforehand (perimenopausal now and getting worse ffs).

OnTheBottomWithAWomansWeekly · 22/10/2013 18:08

Loving the psychotic rubber ball! Didn't one MNer have a mooncup related incident where the cubicle ended up looking like she'd sacrificed a goat? Grin

LookingThroughTheFog · 22/10/2013 18:11

I can totally believe the sacrificed goat. I have not once, but twice spilled the damned thing onto my trousers and once it somehow pinged and flicked into my face. I stopped using it at work quite early on. Not enough spare clothes there to cope with it.

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Oreocrumbs · 22/10/2013 18:20

Both my DM and I lose the ability to park the car the week before our periods Confused.

Both confident and capable drivers the rest of the time, but for those few days, you would think I had never seen a car park or a car before.

Honestly, I can dither on going back and forth in a more than adequate space. I just lose the ability to make the judgment of the space.

My hips end up black and blue too. I also lose the ability to judge the width of an open door and spend the week bouncing off door handles Hmm. My arse isn't that big.

Mercifully I don't get short tempered or irrational. Unfortunately the rest of the world does though.....

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