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?

@User258544

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 .

Yes, it gets worse with age. I am completely different person since starting alternative treatment, though. I am peri menopausal.

@maryhadalittle

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?

I am peri menopausal and was like you. Now I am on some alternatives. Please, investigate PREGNENOLONE. I take Starpowa meno from Holland&Barratt, too. Not sure which one helped, but my moods are no longer in issue! And I stopped excessive night sweats, too! I sought help with the Gp with no success, so had to do my own research. Read everything about Pregnenolone and just decided to try it before Ive murdered my DH in the days leading to my period.

I feel so stressed and anxious that I almost feel like I can't breathe properly, incredibly agitated, sensitive to noise, and I hear myself complaining all the time about things I usually don't care about. The smallest thing can make me cry or rage. This lasts for around 3-4 days before my period starts. I feel the calm almost as soon as my period starts - within an hour or two.

Fortunately my periods are very easy and light, so as soon as one starts I'm very happy.

irritable and horny. Sometimes flat or teary.

I go off sex completely.

And not especially irritable ... more just feel flat about everything and no drive/enthusiasm.

Feel much less able to cope with my busy life. What I would normally take in my stride feels overwhelming. Like the alarm goes off
And I think oh god two school runs I don't think I can DO this!!!!

Tired because I am sweating roast g hit at night and have the weirdest dreams.
I could go to the shops and kill an absolute stranger because they’re not walking fast enough/not moving on away from the shelf I want to look at in a shop/ just anyone else being so inconsiderate enough to be in a shop when I’m there.
I am short tempered and irritated at home with my family.
I hate my clothes and wouldn’t use them as rags the days before I’m due but once it comes they are my absolute favourite items and I fell amazing in it.
My skin and hair is awful and my make up feels mask like on me. I want to scrape it off and start again.
I feel like nobody likes me, I’m useless to everyone a d have in the past contemplated suicide. Thinking up the most painless way in which to do it. Days later when my period has came and I’m having a really great time with my partner or children I feel sad that if I’d done such a stupid thing I’d have missed out on this day.

It’s horrible and I take fluoxetine which helps a lot.

I mostly just lose all sense of humour. I can't see the funny in anything and become very short tempered as a result. I never ever pick up on it, and only after a few days of snapping, crying and generally being an arse to everyone around me does it twig what's going on. I'm on the pill so don't even have the excuse of not knowing it is coming

@OnlyJudyCanJudgeMee

Where do you get the pregnenolone? It sounds like something I’d like to try it’s the burning hot nights I can’t bear. I take fluoxetine for my mood and it does help but if I could try something for mood and temp it would help.
I’m actually considering asking my gp for the mini pill as combined with bad pmt I have the worst heavy period that means I can’t be not near a toilet. I’m starting a new job soon and stressing about crying one day and bleeding everywhere the next.

I am peri menopausal and it has affected my hormones dramatically, I am tearful and full of anxiety the week leading up to my period, almost suicidal some months, can’t see anything positive in the future, it really crap, I am fully aware that it’s my hormones, I would never act on bad thoughts. Also I no longer give a crap about what others think of me, I used to be very maternal, cooing over babies, etc, those feeling have all gone, babies and small children now irritate the hell out of me and I feel wicked for saying that!

Like everyone is winding me up, I can literally feel the rage burning inside me. Patience is out the window, I just want to thump something.

Foul.

[quote Blueskysunsout]@OnlyJudyCanJudgeMee

Where do you get the pregnenolone? It sounds like something I’d like to try it’s the burning hot nights I can’t bear. I take fluoxetine for my mood and it does help but if I could try something for mood and temp it would help.
I’m actually considering asking my gp for the mini pill as combined with bad pmt I have the worst heavy period that means I can’t be not near a toilet. I’m starting a new job soon and stressing about crying one day and bleeding everywhere the next. [/quote]
Depending which country you are in. I am in the UK and got mine from iHerb. Google is your friend :)

Does anyone take anything to help with this that is not a anti depressant which works for the emotions?

I have a spike in libido (I know that's supposed to happen before oulation rather than before period, but my body apparently didn't get that memo) and generally am on a shorter fuse 'zero fucks left to give' mood, which can be useful as long as it's directed at the right person/task. I also have poor sleep, very vivid dreams and constantly feel hungry.

Conversely, I often feel weepy the day before ovulation.

Evening primrose oil doesn't completely remove symptons but does seem to damp them down.

I'm psycho mum and so short tempered until I started taking vitamin b6 after about 4 months I stopped packing my bags to leave my husband and became a nicer person I was miserable
Sorry you feel so rubbish it's horrid x

Furious, hopeless, exhausted. Suicidal and murderous at the same time. I just want to give up on life and also hate everyone and everything. I become clumsy and get terrible brain fog. I feel alternately really sick and really hungry. My sleep quality goes out the window. My boobs hurt and I get headaches and vile cramps for up to 10 days before I come on (I have terrible endometriosis too though). And it has all been getting steadily worse in terms of both how long the effects last and their intensity since I hit my early 30s (am 43 now). I fucking hate it.

In addition to symptoms that most of the rest of you have to endure, I have lovely nightmares about my dead relations.😱👻
Being 48 it's helped in one way as a predictor for when my period will arrive, as tbh they're properly hit n miss now.

I feel like someone else two weeks before my period. Angry, argumentative, low...just everything the other posters have said.

I started taking Angus cactus 3 and i feel like it’s a miracle. I am calm, feel happy (so far) don’t want to kill anyone for breathing so if you’re looking for something to help, I say try that. Xx

My mood is fine but for a few days before I want to eat everything in the entire house, and usually do just that

@CoopsMalloops

I feel like someone else two weeks before my period. Angry, argumentative, low...just everything the other posters have said.

I started taking Angus cactus 3 and i feel like it’s a miracle. I am calm, feel happy (so far) don’t want to kill anyone for breathing so if you’re looking for something to help, I say try that. Xx

Just Angus Cactus, not “Angus cactus 3”

In a good cycle, I get a bit on edge and a headache for a day or two, it feels like a massive relief when I start, and I'll have a "mild" migraine for a few hours 3-4 days later near the end of my period, but no other issues.

In a bad cycle, I'll be really irritable and have a headache that goes on for days, little relief when I start days late, and then a fuck-off migraine that starts 3-4 days later, but I'll keep bleeding for 3-4 extra days with an achey head if not a continuing fuckoff migraine and I'll be really sensitive/weepy.

Currently in the latter. It seems to be a mix of how much stress I'm under, ensuring I have enough good food/water/movement and supplementation (particularly Vitamin D and things related to that - my sex hormones can be fine, but if I get deficient in Vit D everything else goes to hell and when I go through rough patches like I am now, I have to be even more careful to make sure I'm doing that absolutely spot on).

I cry a lot, and see nothing but doom everywhere, and everyone hates me.

I'm perimenopausal, and can tell whether or not I've actually ovulated, because I'm horny as hell, and I check out every decent looking man

Horny when ovulating, not generally ha

I get really paranoid and think everyone thinks badly of me. It's funny because I'm well respected and an anti social introvert, so this is not normally something that would pre occupy me!