What is your mood like before your period?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I'm so, so down for a few days every month. I know it's just my period but it's still shit to be so sensitive and weepy.

How do you feel before yours and do you take anything if you suffer badly?

I feel as if life isn’t worth living, cry for at least a day, pick fights with DH, and even though the rational side of me knows it’s that time of the month, it doesn’t compute and I’m convinced I actually want to die.

I have a very short temper one month and the next I cry at every little thing. It's weird.

I feel really agitated and unsettled and everything/everyone just gets under my skin. Little things I'm annoyed with people about become big things in my head and I become convinced that nobody likes me or wants to know me. I get really argumentative and defensive and then once I come on it's like a dark cloud has been lifted and I feel back to normal again, till next month...

I get tense and agitated, angry over the silliest of things... This week was dh was going to wash up emptied bowl to fill it, got sidetracked i went in and the way he'd stacked it was like a dirty display.. Yep pathetic but at the time I was so annoyed he shrugged it off and said oh its that week is it, not in a horrible way which made me then cry as I thought he was taking the piss.
24 hours later I can laugh about it..

Some months I'm fine, others I could get wound up over the color of the sky

I find I get very angry and agitated around ovulation and then I’m numb right up until a few days before my period where I cry at literally anything. Then all I want is sex right up until next ovulation.

It’s definitely far worse in my 30s than it was in my 20s. My body is probably utterly desperate to get pregnant and then is mightily pissed off around ovulation if I’ve not had sex.

Shit. Every single month like clockwork i decide my business isn't worth the hassle and I'm shit at it anyway so I'm going to shut up shop. I want to run away or just stay in bed and cry. Leave my dh who irritates me beyond belief for those few days.

I often think about how lovely it must be to be a man and not have the ups and down of hormones every single month for years on end. It's shit.

Murderous and getting worse with age (40) 😬😫

It’s definitely far worse in my 30s than it was in my 20s. My body is probably utterly desperate to get pregnant and then is mightily pissed off around ovulation if I’ve not had sex.

This gets even worse in your 40s .

It's horrendous in your 50's 🙈

Very angry - and tired as I have really hot restless nights the few days leading up to my period

Fine.

My mood is fine/unchanged really. I have an odd feeling of unpleasant restlessness like I just want it to hurry up and start which then releases that build up but no specific emotions attached.

Sorry to hear how difficult it can be for others mood-wise.

I turn into a monster. All my emotions, feelings are so heightened that it causes issues with my husband. We were discussing divorce the day before my last period and when my period arrived, we made up again :) that's how bad it is. Is there anything that could be done about this as it's seriously affecting me and those around me?

The day before my period starts I'm very irritable and moody. Every month when it starts I think "ah that's why I was such a cow yesterday!". You think I'd learn

@terrelontane

I feel as if life isn’t worth living, cry for at least a day, pick fights with DH, and even though the rational side of me knows it’s that time of the month, it doesn’t compute and I’m convinced I actually want to die.

Pretty much this.

Everything is dark grey. Every month I wonder why I am so unhappy, then I remember that the reason is because of my hormones and that I just have to get through a couple of days and the colour will come back to my life.

It gives me a small insight into what it might be like to have depression. Except I only have to go through it for a brief few days a month!

It's horrid isn't it. For me, I get all crampy, emotional, angry shouting. As soon as I start my period, I feel relief. I hate the build up. Big hugs.

Google pmdd.

Like someone else has taken over my body for ten days of the month.

Apparently chocolate helps

Total shit. So fed up of it. 42 now and menopause can't come quick enough.

Horrific -
Blackest despair
Deep paranoia
Bursting into tears, even at work (not good on shop floor)
Self loathing
I'm 49 and no signs of menopause unfortunately!

The day before my period starts I'm very irritable and moody. Every month when it starts I think "ah that's why I was such a cow yesterday!". You think I'd learn grin

Seriously, I lived with 3 females in my 30s and it was like a lightbulb as we all realised how much of an effect hormones have!

I get extremely depressed about my appearance.

I'm general, I'm happy with it, but about a week before my period I start absolutely HATING my face to the point I don't want anyone to see me, and feel so sad about it.

Only explanation I can think of is that it's subtle changes I'm picking up on like bloating or something?

Hell on earth. I want to scream at everything that even breathes in my direction. I feel like I could crawl out of my own skin for about 3 days before the bitch shows up. It's awful. I do have bipolar and often wonder if it's intensified because of that but either way it's utterly hellish.

Really hot like there's a hairdryer blowing in my face ,weepy ,snappy bad cramps bthe week before and 4 or 5 days before I feel like I've got the flu and so weak and tired.
Awful definitely has got worse the older I've got

I'm now perimenopausal and it's got so much worse. I used to be very volatile. Now l want to stab everyone and feel like the world is ending.

Snappy ! I'm glad I've had the mirena coil fitted as I'm no longer a moody moo lol