AIBU to think PMS gets worse as you get older?

[Twinmummy2018]

I turned 30 a few months ago and have noticed that since then a week before my period I am thoroughly depressed, feeling shitty and just horrible to my DH. And I can’t control it, so it’s definitely PMS and I’ve never suffered with this before. Does PMS get worse as you get older?

No it doesn’t get worse as you get older. Get yourself checked out. Worsening pms at 30 is usually a red flag is usually for a reproductive disorder that has been left undiagnosed too long

Hell yes!

Mine definitely has after having children, or it could be with age. I'm 32 and feel positively shitty on the run up too, and a couple of days in to my period.

Pains and PMT are much worse than when I was younger.

I am also up to date with smears and have had ovarian scans after a miscarriage so I'm pretty sure that it's not health related.

Yes - but in been in my 40s and frankly it's been with a host of other changes - since having DC flow in more normal and not so staggering heavy and painful - but as I get older headaches and changes to my digestive system have all got worse.

Yes - everything gets worse.

Mine got worse as i got older, but it can also be fluctuating hormones, lack of sleep, too much alcohol that week etc.

I am 34 and did notice it’s getting worse but I think it rather has something to do with giving birth a couple of months ago. My hormones are getting trough the roof a few days before my period starts and it surely wasn’t that bad before I got pregnant as it is now!

Not for me. Period pain symptoms were awful in my late teens and early twenties - excruciating cramps (much the same as giving birth I later discovered), vomiting, fainting, etc. - but much better from my mid-twenties right through to menopause.

I don’t mean cramping - I’ve never had much of that just the first day with heavy pain and cramps. I just mean PMS - like for the past 4/5 months my PMS has been out of this world! Just full on depression - hate the world vibes.

Glad to hear I’m not alone. Very strange as I never suffered with PMS much in my younger years maybe a day or two before period - but not for a full week before the b*h arrives!

Yes, I have noticed this too. I’m late 30snow, child-free.

The anxiety is horrendous too

Omg yes! I thought I was alone! Absolute raging anger and floods of tears these days, am 33 and 3 years post-baby. Got a period tracker on ny phone to remind me so I would remember that everyone wasn't an arsehole I was just uber hormonal!

Yes it does, PMS is though to be a imbalance between oestrogen and progesterone. Progesterone levels start to drop and you end up with a relative oestrogen dominance. Progesterone can also fall secondary to stress, poor diet and gut health. Have a look at Dr Janelle Sinclair, she is amazing.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeAAc8KA9yULEaJE9onl4fNqLyMmwP0Pi

I never had PMS really in the past (or not that noticeable), but in the last two years have had worsening symtoms of PMDD which occurs sometimes mid cycle until the first day of my new cycle. I don't recognise myself sometimes. I have radically changed my diet, solving my gut issues and supplementing to help which has improved things.

Absolutely... wait til you're in your 40s, TOTAL RAGE!

Pudding21 what supplements do you use?

@sawyersfishbiscuits the rage will be more than this?!! I think my poor dh will run a mile ... this week of the month everything about him irritates me and I’m sure I’m no fun to be around.

I’ve heard omega 3 is good for PMS, has anyone tried it or is taking it?

@TheZeppo yes!! I have bad anxiety too and I’m generally not an anxious person. It sucks.

Mine has completely changed since turning 30 and now the week before I'm due my boobs look really full and are so unbelievably painful. Never had this before when I was younger and never had during my 4 pregnancies. But in the last 2 years (I'm 35 now) I've had this new PMS symptom.

I was going to say yes, definitely, but I've found it to be the case as I approach the menopause, not in my 30s!

I've always suffered and when I was younger diet and stress levels made a huge difference.

I use a multi vitamin for women with methylated B vitamins (very impotant as they are more easily used by the body), omega 3, high dose vitamin C if I have been more stressed, I take an excellent probiotic and just recently am trialling 5 HTP (which is the pre cursor to serotonin). I have also recently added Vit D drops. I am already 80% better, the last two months I have not had such bad symptoms.

Evening primrose and Chasteberry are also supposed to be effective.

Stress is a big factor, because in brief you use up a lot of cortisol, and your body insted of using the pre cursor to build progesterone is used to build your neurotransmitters for ongoing stress response. So you end up with low progesterone and an oestrogen dominance.

Oh I forgot, I also use a natural prgesterone cream, which is very calming. You can get different strengths and I know women who swear by it for menopause, but for PMS/PMDD it can be effective for the second half of your cycle. I was desperate at the begining of the year, I am normally a very calm person, but occasionally I would meltdown like Michael Douglas in Falling Down!

This is a good article about oestrogen dominance: blog.daveasprey.com/estrogen-dominance/

Meditation and exercise help immensly too.

5 HTP is not reccomended if you are taking anti depressants by the way (especially SSRI's).

I am not sure mine has always been horrendous.
Give yourself a month on a vitamin B complex it helps lots.
Primrose oil too.

I'm 42, never known anything like it this last year (since coming off pill, can't take it anymore) Cramps of teenage years have returned with a vengeance.