To be fed up of feeling like a paranoid, raging bitch for a week every fucking month..

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Every month, for a week (sometime more like 10 days) before I'm due on I am bad tempered, moody, paranoid, short tempered, can't sleep - generally a complete bitch.

I've tried eating healthily and my doctor has prescribed sertraline - both of which have helped but not eliminated it.

I'm just so fed up of PMT, I find it really makes life so fucking hard. When it's over, I can't even relate to how I felt when I was in the midst of it all.

Do you just ride through it or has anyone discovered something that helps?

I have tried everything over the years. My GP's best advice now that I'm in my mid 40s is that it won't last forever

By far the best thing I've done is cut out refined sugar and never, ever let myself get hungry. Small meals every 3-4 hours. It's not easy to do and certainly not in "that" week but after the first 7-10 days the cravings do pass. On this regime there are months when my period arrives without me (or DH!) realising it was due. Then I fall off the wagon and have to "give up" again...

I have tried loads of different supplements for this but the one that really worked and I've stuck with is called 30 plus ....I live outside the UK but I expect you could still get hold of some on the Internet. It's amazing. Read the reviews online! I used to basically feel like I had MH problems on the run up each month but now I get the odd one that just catches me by surprise as I never saw it coming. Dream come true considering how it was before.

Would love some advice on this.

Was on pill from the age of 16 till 32 when I had DD1. Had coil for a few months, then had DD2. Now have copper coil again as I hate hormones and thought I was sorted for contraception.

Periods came back when DD2 was about 1 year old, they are heavy-ish but manageable but I have been WEEPING in the run up to my period, and so angry about everything. Previously I have never had PMT. I'm scaring myself.

Hormonal contraception gives me PMT for 3 weeks out of 4 so I'm contraceptive free (we use condoms)

My gynae recommends evening primrose oil 1000mg a day which has helped regulate my periods nicely, but I also take vit D and magnesium.

I can't give up carbs. I loves them.

I'd probably be sectioned if I wasn't on the pill. I'm not joking.
After my 2nd child, I ended up with a 21 day cycle, 1 week of hideous PMT with raging temper, one week of cramps and flooding and 1 week to recover! I decided to go back on the pill when my PMT ruined a holiday for me. I didn't know it was PMT as my period had only finished the week before so wasn't expecting it so soon! I ranged from awful depression to shrieking anger and was planning on handing DH divorce papers - until my period started in the middle of the week and my brain felt normal again.
I take my pills with no break as like a poster said above, I can't be bothered will all that any more. No more headaches, no more mood swings, no more cramps and flooding and no more checking to make sure I've not bought scented pads by accident!

I've completely cut out refined sugar. It was bloody hard but the difference in the run up to my period was amazing. No homicidal rages, no screaming rows with DH, a bit of increased appetite but no ridiculous chocolate binges. I'm never going back.

Menopause

I too turn into a Grade A megabitch with pmt. it's definitely getting worse as I get older, or maybe I'm just more aware that that's what it is. It's taken me almost 30 years to figure it out, but usually starts with a night of sweating like a dying beast, then murderous rage for the next few days.

I found taking vitamin B12 supplements helped a little, as did taking up running. I am SO FUCKING FAST the week before my period, although it's possible that the speed is entirely in my mind (I'm not known for my athletic prowess).

Made me chuckle to see this thread in aibu tonight as I just wrote this handy guide directed at my husband because I'm subtle like that last night wp.me/p3FPvX-vg which is much more ragey then my usual stuff. He's just brought me some more gin though, so maybe the message got through😁

No advice :( but wholeheartedly relate to this!

Also, second what humpreys says on the food - it's called the 'eating week' in our house. I literally can not stuff enough hummous and crisps into my angry face those days.