to think that the older i get

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the more acutely i feel my body respond to my, um, cycle. i don't ever remember the crying at the time of ovulation, wanting to shag the furniture around me, the eating - oh, the eating - sore boobs closer to the day and and the urge to kill. with damage. is this normal - please tell me it is...

Yes, me to. My period used to take me by surprise but now at 34, I know......awful PMS, sore boobs, insomnia. I even get ovulation pain now and notice the change in cervical mucus tmi

crumbs - me too

Ooh yes, me too. Particular like the wanting to shag the furniture line I never understood my cycle until I had DD but now I can tell when I'm probably ready to conceive as, yes, everything looks so much rosier...

I've noticed since having DS, that I am more aware of it all. I never really understood my cycle before. NDN's gardener furniture too!

I always had this really. Tried microgynon pill in highschool and it made it worse, so I stopped after 3 months. I also used to get sick at the time of ovulation, a bit like morning sickness type nausea so by looking at your ladies answers I think I am going to get worse

Never felt the need to hump the chair but yes it drives me potty just cried proper sobs at come dine with me while eating a packet of crisps I due next week

My theory is that your hormones are in charge till your mid/late twenties, and the peaks just become more noticeable because you're a proper grown up. I'm pretty certain I read something about puberty not completely finishing till our twenties???

Anyway, that point of view means I don't have to put it down to getting older and can think of myself as just completed puberty (relatively speaking if I'm mid thirties that's true )

Anyone else noticed this phenomenon? Maybe I was just ignorant in my past

Me too.

Cornettoninja, I didn't really notice my hormones in my 20s and early 30s.

But then I started feeling almost suicidal with PMS, and really high and capable and all-conquering around ovulation. PMS does seem to have calmed down (generally not so depressed anyway these days, part of which is the passing of time since my parents' deaths.) But the feeling round ovulation, I'd be rich if I could bottle that and sell it.

I guess maybe change is normal. I am much less affected the older I get (late 40s now).

I definitely feel more noticeable changes as I've got older.