PMT/PMS I could literally rip someone's head clean off

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Posting for traffic. Anyone else get this angry. I'm irritable and moody but try to keep it inside which doesn't help.

Never used to be this bad. Could I be moving toward the change? I'm mid 40s.

Yep. Always have. The week before I'm so unpredictable, moods are all over the place. Since having my 2 kids and being on the pill for a while I'm now finding the week before hell. I often feel very down, even mildly suicidal (I don't mean mildly in a flippant way, I don't often want to act on the thoughts I have, but often feel that my kids will be better off without me).

I don't really know what to do about it. Spoke to my gp and was told I'd need to stay on the pill for now because of COVID they aren't offering appointments right now. I want to be sterilised so I don't need hormonal contraceptives but they won't do it because I'm too young (30).

DH really isn't keen on the snip (his Brothers op went wrong and he has suffered since).

As far as the change goes, my mum said she felt exactly the same as you when she went through the change.

I'm well past this now but 50mg B6 and Evening primrose oil pushed to help me.

I'm peri menopausal and on one 5htp tablet a day, it's made a huge difference to how I feel.

Me! It’s quite scary how full of rage I get, I despise every single person I come into contact with. I could genuinely walk away from every single person in my life and start again afresh, it’s that bad and I’m so angry at the world. It’s always been the same and now I just try and get through the days as I know the feeling of anger and despair will pass but my god, it’s very difficult and I frequently feel like I’m losing my mind!

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I’ve heard very good things about the effect of vitamin b6 and b12 on PMT. Normally you can get them pretty reasonably at Holland and Barrett.

Vitamin B complex and red clover capsules

Yep. I literally hate everyone and everything except my son. I think my husband is a cunt, I want to tell random strangers to fuck off for merely existing, I hate the dog, I feel suicidal and homicidal for days

As soon as my period starts it's like a light switch, I'm back to normal

I'm 36 and not peri menopausal as far as I know (no other symptoms and blood tests were normal). I think I'm just unlucky and get severe PMT

Yes, 10mg Citalopram is making all the difference, it is quite startling. I didn't actually realise my period was due this time (peri, irregular, none of the usual clues from turning totally homicidal in the run up).

Yes, the week before I’m due on I go from fits of rage to feeling suicidal. It’s really messing up my life and I feel bad for my family. Watching this thread with interest.

Apparently I'm a bitch to live with for 3 weeks a month. Then nice for a week

@HomeEdRocks18 this is me too!! I feel sad, low, angry, doubting everything, impatient, tearful, irritated and ready to pack my bags for 3 weeks (on and off) and then the minute my period starts it's like a huge a relief. Suddenly I feel like 'myself' for about a week before it all starts again. I'm 39, tried sertraline for 6 months but it didn't really help. Am currently having hormones tested, am really trying to work on less alcohol, more water, more sleep, more exercise and less sugar and crap to see if it makes a difference. I feel like I've disappeared for most of the month, replaced by a depressed, anxious, tragic mess!!

Red clover, a good multi vitamin with all the B's, evening primrose oil and get your B12 levels checked. It's a nightmare.

I think however bad your PMS is when you're young, it'll for most people go up a notch after having children, and then another notch as you enter middle age.

Me! For the second half of my cycle it gets increasingly worse until my period starts then it's gone by the end. Interesting to see the b12 comments - this has started since my b12 injections were stopped due to covid and my doctor absolutely refuses to restart them. I can't absorb through tablets and I've been trying a spray which doesn't help.

I'm 27.

It could be pmdd? Worth talking to your gp about

Yep. 20mg citalopram has changed my life. I was suicidal and fucking furious for 10 days a month, now I am a bit grumpy for a couple of days. I honestly think it has saved my marriage

If anyone has had it for a good proportion of their adult life, it's likely pmdd. Bloody evil. The menopause cant come quick enough for me...

Calcium D-glucarate has made a huge difference to me. I'm at the end of my 40s, and have spent some time trying to project Zen calm while suppressing my inner screaming squirrel.

It completely dissolved 1. the squirrel and 2. cramps, and left me in an incredibly reasonable mood. I'd never heard of it until this year, and it's great.

I send to be chronically irritable for 90% of the month. Probably by husband WFH since March and an obnoxious, loud teenager. Even worse it is a quiet, simmering perpetually pissed off type of anger.
Can you see your GP ?