To be sick every bloody time of the month...

[Fruitbatdancer]

Aibu? Is it just me? Shit on a stick I’m fed up with it. Every month about 3 days before period I get a scratchy throat, snotty nose, then basically full blown sinusitis and flu symptoms (proper can’t breath at night, snotty, eyes streaming, cough) for over a week. Always starts about 2 days before I’m due on (I start to think I’m crazy, moody, Ill, even depressed, then period starts and I go oh right there you are, that’ll be it, then a week of illness, then 3 weeks of ok, then it starts all over. I’m so sick of being sick! Am I alone? Anyone get this? Is my immune system so shit I can’t cope with time of month? Been going on over a year finally have docs next week but not sure they’ll say/ do anything? Last time all they offered was anti depressants, and I’m loathe to take them! I’m not sick, I’m just a hormonal fucking nightmare.

For background on mini pill, late 30’s, one toddler. Otherwise healthy (I think!) but overweight.

Help!

Anyone?!

I do get the feelings you experience - depressive (otherwise fine), sad, crying, angry then just pain and feeling rotten for a week.
I got the antidepressants because it can be used for extreme PMS (I have forgotten what the diagnosis was called) but can be taken cyclically i.e. you can take it for 10 days prior to that time of the month then just stop when you get it and your mood levels.
I don't think that would work if you had actual depression but it definitely helped me for those pre-feelings. Doesn't help the pain during though :(

Hope you find a solution x

Take as high a dosage of the B vitamins as you can get, plus high dose zinc, magnesium and vitamin C. All will really help. I am a long term endo sufferer so do everything I can to get through health-wise so that I can concentrate on trying to work through the pain. These supplements are the ones I have narrowed down as to actually really working.

I get three day migraines on day 1-3. Have done since peri menopause, so about three years. Anxiety always heightens too.

It’s fucking horrendous. Migraines are debilitating. Fortunately I work from home so hide it well.

@sunflowerjo08 thanks I’ll look I got those. And thanks for the other info, all useful for me to process before I get to the GP appointment.

Yes! Was just thinking this morning, why does everyone I know have ‘normal’ periods. Mine are dreadful and as I’m due on at the end of this week, I’ve felt like shit since Sunday. Constant cramps, overly stressed about small things, headaches, nausea. I neeed to go back to the GP. I’ve been twice since September and as each period seems to be different from the last she keeps telling me to see how it goes for another month. Oh, and my skin the week before and during! Massive spots that nothing seems to dry out and get rid of. Can you tell I’m due on? So pissed off with it, truly.

Me too, OP! Although mine doesn't sound as bad as yours. I start a week before my period - dry scratchy throat, short of breath, blocked nose and headache. It feels like the start of a virus. Also weirdly weak legs

I've googled it so many times, but have never found an answer as to why it happens.

I have just found out I've got adenomyosis though - no idea if that's anything to do with it??

Not sure if this will help but my friend had very very similar symptoms and after months of testing it was found she has a vitamin b12 deficiency. Every 3 months she now has this injected and her symptoms are now none existent.

It might be worth looking in to? I'd obviously strongly recommend to speak to your doctor before taking any such supplements though!