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?

1 day a month I cry for no reason. Fine apart from that.

I get really irritable and emotional, it’s horrible. My OH knows when I’m due on before I do

Same as you and others, OP. I'm on an emotional knife-edge for a solid week or so before my period. Generally very irritable/tense/moody, which can easily tip into tearful outbursts.

I'm fully aware of it the whole time and absolutely cannot help it. DH can always tell by now when I'm due on. On the bright side I don't get cramps!

Holy shit I have found my people. I have every symptom listed, and it's getting very noticeably worse as I get older (33)

Tired, tearful, rageful, homicidal, suicidal, headaches, cramps, distracted, upset stomach, sore boobs, moody, hopeless, despair, low self confidence...

Whole shebang, except horny, which is a disappointment!

For up to a week before my period I have awful night sweats that piss me off.

My mood is variable. I am due on now and I am very irritable. I keep looking at my husband and getting annoyed with him. He isn't doing anything wrong but he is annoying me. I can get really tearful and anxious. Some months my mood is just normal.

I am 39 and I think I am peri-menopausal.

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but I know I am going to come on within 1-2 days because I spend more time on the toilet.

TMI, but I am not very regular the rest of the month.

I can also relate to the people who aren't happy with their appearance when they are due on. I often feel (and am) bloated and uncomfortable in my own skin and I feel ugly.

I feel really low, tired, disorientated and can feel heartbroken at the slightest thing. There is a negative feel about everything. All of which lasts a few days (not that I recognise that at the time) and is the absolute opposite of the way I normally feel. Have a few days like they when I ovulate too.

Joy.

I'm menopausal now, thank goodness, as the whole periods thing was awful. I'd feel like I was stuck in a deep, dark pit. Absolutely despairing. I was on a very short fuse, too. Then, just as the mood lifted, the horrendous pain would start.

Give me the menopause any day. Now I feel much calmer all month round and the despairing days are just for when something bad has happened.

I’m literally only just noticing that my moods are related to my period and I’m 35. I will get super insecure and weepy and will blow things out of all proportion. I get extremely down on myself. It’s rubbish. I’ve been wondering for a while if I had depression becaise of these moods but they seemed to come and go and I’ve just realised the past few months that it’s probably hormonal..

About Day 22-23 of my cycle I get very irritable, short fuse, full of vicious hatred if I've gone out to the shops and someone is walking slowly or came too close to me etc. etc.

Day 25-26 ish - sometimes weepy, tearing up at every sad news story or emotional bit in a film. Sometimes very on edge and anxious although I have found I need to stick to only one coffee a day around this time of the month and that helps. Sometimes very ragey and easily worked up over stuff. I used to always feel like I was having a mental health crisis at this point in my cycle but now I understand it more it's easier. Also am finally less sleep deprived thanks to 3yo sleeping better which helps.

Then the couple of days before my period starts I often get brain fog, legs like lead, bloated, feeling like I'm coming down with something, headache etc.

I am 65 now. I had irregular periods. They were awful when they arrived. I had cramps and remember having to go home from work sometimes as I could not even walk properly.

I remember always buying chocolate in the supermarket before my period, and then when it came realising why. I should have known my period was on its way.

Even now, I sometimes buy chocolate in different forms and realise it is my body's way of saying I am still hormonal albeit differently.

Weepy
Paranoid
At least 2 nights of bad sleep before start of period - raise in temperature, I think?
The kind of headaches that no meds can touch, a bit like a very mild migraine, but never lifts for days.
Excorcist head spinning mad over hearing people chewing, sipping, swallowing, clanking cutlery against plates and bowls - WATCHING them eat. Watching someone slowly eat and suck on an icecream nearly once gave me a criminal record.
But mostly paranoid about my relationships and I doubt my worth to my loved ones when I don't normally even have to think of it.

@Zagziggirl

How interesting. I’m interested in timing as I always thought PMT was the few days before your period but I’m the worst around 7-10 days before. So so so angry and short tempered. Get randy a day or two before, and generally stay that way up to about a week after.

I believe that the rage about a week prior is due to progesterone levels starting to fall!

Much the same as everyone else has said and I get a repulsive bloated puffy face and just want to hide . Definitely noticed a change in my mid 30s in that my cycle is still regular but mood swings and body changes seem more dominant.

Moody, weepy, generally emotional and more aware of my weight!

One week before my period starts, I usually get suicidal, I think of ways to kill myself, cry constantly, want to quit work, feel like a failure, have no energy, I just want to no longer exist. It’s awful, it’s gotten worse over the past year. Then once my period arrives I’m ok again. It’s so odd.

Planning on starting the mini pill to see if it evens out my hormones but I'm 39 and for the last year or so it's getting worse and worse. Last month we were on holiday and the day before my period I sat on the bed sobbing because I was terrified but I didn't know what of. My period came early the next day and then I was fine. It's really really horrible.

There is nothing wrong with me. I am always my usual calm, organized self. However -- other people around me become lazy, sulky, uncooperative, and generally behave like farm animals. Particularly family members!

I could have written this post. I'm 41 and my mood is very low each month, it's awful. I feel I'm doing all the right things, exercise, healthy food, enough sleep but it's not helping. I'm an emotional wreck each month and I want to fix it.

I was going to try evening primrose oil, has anyone had any success with it?

Mine starts like a week before, I am a wreck. And it's horrible because I feel symptoms so early, It feels like I'm always on and the pain. I had a coil put in and the pain moved from my pelvis area to my leg. I had never had that before but apparently it can happen.

Has anyone tried these period panty things?? www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07ZH9DZRM/ref=as_li_tl?linkCode=as2&linkId=d04e7d354c9cdc9142df48f67eeee2df&creativeASIN=B07ZH9DZRM&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8&creative=6738&camp=1634
I'm scared of trying them but still tempted, for the comfort and lack of worry (also saving the environment yada yada).

Some months I’m the same but every few months I seem to have a cycle where I get snappy and quick to temper.
Recently had one where I cried over something ridiculous and made my partner feel bad when the following week he did the same thing and I didn’t bat an eyelid at it and never normally would!

Awful. Really upset and out of sorts. Angry too. Not nice.

Thought about this thread as I cried about something really sad. But then I couldn't shake it off, the sadness , the tiredness, the gloom. I have eaten cheese, crisp and chocolate. Had a bath to stop me eating and took more chocolate. I am going to go downstairs for crisp and pasta then be pissed off with myself and sleep.

Due on.

Moody, angry, like a woman possessed.

Now, through menopause at the grand old age of 45, and the joys of vaginal atrophy.

For those of you wishing that menopause would come quickly, be careful what you wish for.