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 have 3 days where I'm a totally different person. I have such a short temper can feel anger bubbling up inside me for no reason. I also get horrendous anxiety and spend my evenings crying that either I might die and leave my daughters with no mum or crying worrying about one of them dying. Its bloody awful. I can totally see that it's because my period is due though and usually manage to rein my anger in so that I don't get cross with others but internally I'm seething, poor dh does sometimes get a sharp bite of it if he annoys me enough

Suicidal.

I now take citalopram for PMDD. Its changed my life. I'm now grumpy and a bit snappy, but it's saved my marriage, and possibly my life.

I'm a total bitch before period

I felt horrendous, like I had fire in my chest. My teeth hurt from gritting them and I often worried I’d leave my husband when I this state and it’d been a huge mistake.

I’m on ADs now for PMDD- honestly, I think it’s saved my marriage, and quite possibly my life.

@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.

Not far off this. No I don't take anything for it. Just wait for it to be over. If I remember the reason that is. Sleep it off.

I'm mid 30s and It is very disheartening to see posts that this gets worse...

Unsettled, full of self loathing and depressed. I didn’t have periods for years due to being on contraception but lockdown caused me to run out of prescription so I thought I would see how my body coped. Horrendously was the answer and I’m back on the pill!

@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.

This pretty much sums it up

@OuiOuiKitty it’s really not funny but I am exactly the same! When I worked, I always wanted to quit my job 🤣🤣

Yes to nearly all of the things mentioned. I seethe quietly... Or when I don't manage to keep a lid on it I explode. It took me a ridiculously long time to equate this to my period but not I know I do try and just keep my mouth shut but inside I'm horrible

Used to be fine but not at 40s I go to a black black place where life is pointless and I get angry and weep like the world is ending. I also eat everything in the house, then magically I’m absolutely fine again top of the world.

Bloody weird, lockdown isn’t helping because normally my mum listens to be lose my mind and says “you’re due on get a grip”. I can’t see it before she points it out!

Also nightmares what’s with the nightmares?!

I suffered horrendously with my mood before my period, I was snappy and angry over everything, weeping the next minute, unable to focus! Awful boob pain and multiple migraines.

I came off the pill in July and haven't looked back- not a single migraine and my partner has commented that it's like living with a new woman.

I had been on the pill for 17 years, it's like a weight has lifted.

I used to feel really depressed for a few days before my period. I was very short-tempered, more so than normal, and quickly built myself up into a rage over nothing. I started taking starflower oil and that helped a lot. A few months ago I started taking citalopram for some unrelated reasons and that's also helped with my mood swings just before my period.

I used to be so so sad too, I would come home from work, cry and lie on the sofa. For a week a month I wanted to die. Went to gp and he offered antidepressants or change in birth control. Changing birth control helped. Now I feel a bit like I'm getting a cold, crampy and snappy but only for a day or 2.

Yeah I lose all confidence in myself. Want to hide away. Cry, can't cope at work. Think I should never have started this career/job.
Some months are worse than others.

I feel really thin skinned and vulnerable, like the slightest little thing will make me burst into tears. Also I get really agitated.

Oh god, I cried myself to sleep last night thinking about how I should just get it over with and hang my self in the loft. It's getting increasingly bleaker and more painful, I really don't understand why.

@Happyface120 I also have PMDD but scared of trying anything. Do you have any side effects from citalopram?

God i get all sorts, migraines, weepy, feeling low, no confidence, brain fog, snappy, insomnia, tense, feel ill, not with it and wanting to kill every bastard I see especially dh, por sod

Irritable and a bit snappy... sounds like I have it easy though

@LeSquigh I've been on them for about 3 years now. When I started I was a bit woozy and light headed, and spent a few weeks yawning and clenching my teeth. I now have no side effects whatsoever. The only downside is that I seem to struggle more with losing weight, but that may be age as much as anything.
I honestly think they have saved me. I was so worried that I was damaging my kids, and my DH was reaching the end of his tether with me....

Anxious, often awake into the night fretting (even though I am not an anxious person and have no trouble sleeping at any other tom).

Very quick to anger and destructive when I do - not to people but objects often get damaged. The rest of the month I am typically laid back and calm.

See the doom in everything - again normally a glass half full kind of person.

I also feel like I have flu. Muscle aches, temperarure, chills, sometimes a sore throat, headache, tiredness and muscle weakness.

It gets worse the older I get. It was never like this when I was younger but got progressively worse during mid to late 30s. It took me ages to see the pattern and even now I know the pattern is there, I just cannot seem to overcome how I feel. All I can try to do is keep my head down until the strom passes again.

I feel totally normal. No difference in my mood at all.

Awful. Usually end up convincing myself I’d be better off dead, almost always end up wanting to leave my DH too.

It varies with me, sone months I'll be down and irritable, se I'll be very stressed and just feel I can't cope/agitated and then some I'm
More kind of paranoid, feeling like people are annoyed with me etc. Literally day my period starts it's like a massive release and I just feel normal again x