PMT HELL!!!

[ash6605]

Ive just started my first period since my misscarriage in december. i have had the most terrible pmt not physical but emotionally. i have been a nervous wreck,have had panic attacks and even suicidal feelings for a week now,its eased a little today as my period started.
i have suffered on and off with pmt ever since my first period aged 12 but have had no joy with my doctor,the pill only made it worse.

i had pnd with dd aged 3 and this has never gone away as ive since lost both my parents.anti depressants havn't really helped either.i stopped them when i found out i was pregnant in october and never went back on them after the m/c and to be honest ive been better without them,everyone has seen a difference and said that maybe the m/c was due to a hormone imbalance which has probably sorted itself now.

but this week has been hell,my poor husband is past himself,my kids missed two days off school coz i felt so bad i couldn't leave the house,thankfull i've had annual leave from work otherwise i know i couldn't have gone in.

we are trying for a baby aswell so when these symptoms started i thought maybe i was pg as i always feel low during the first few months but then it eases off.

really don't know what to do, just know i can't face another month of this.wonder if theres anything i can do to ease it at least?medication not an option as ttc.

HELP!

No real advice, but sympathy. Sending you virtual hugs! Lost my beloved Ma while pg with dd, so maybe understand a little of your feelings. hope you get a bfp soon, if you want to chat, come on here. I'll be off til tonight now, though. Got some errands to do. Take care!!

XX

ash I am also a sufferer (not now as pg but am dreading return of the Curse) and it was definitely worse after my mc.

I also had horrible pnd and weaning depression when my periods came back.

The only thing that's ever helped me (and it didn't eradicate it) was a kind of full on health programme, when I could stick to it. I tried to follow a wholefood low GI diet especially in the last 2 weeks of the month because blood sugar maintenance is a problem during PMS. I tried to have reflexology and acupuncture regularly when I could afford it. After this birth, I am considering trying to get hold of natural progesterone, as I have read that women who suffer severe PMS may have overly high oestrogen levels. I also found I really needed to take exercise, though I felt far less like it. A day out walking in the fresh air or the park with ds would end far more happily than one where I stayed in trying to work or hide from the weather.

Am interested that you feel terrible in early months of pregnancy too- along with sickness I got severe depression and mood swings which I attribute to some extent to the big rise in hormone levels. At the very end of pg you have more progesterone than ever and I feel unusually even tempered as a result!

THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICE,I'M GOING TO HAVE TO START ON A REAL HEALTH KICK NOW-COULD DO WITH LOSING A BIT OF WEIGHT ASWELL SO IT CERTAINLY WON'T DO ME ANY HARM.IT IS REALLY HARD WHEN THOSE CARB CRAVINGS KICK IN THOUGH,SOMETIMES I FEEL AS THOUGH I COULD LITERALLY KILL FOR A BAG OF CRISPS OR SOME BREAD.I'M LIKE THAT FOR AT LEAST A WEEK BEFORE PERIOD SO I''L JUST HAVE TO STOCK UP ON RYVITA'S!

THE ONLY THING THAT DOESN'T QUITE RING TRUE WITH THE PROGESTERONE THING IS-I STARTED THE MINI PILL 6WK POSTNATAL WITH DD AND THAT IS WHEN MY PND REALLY KICKED OFF.IM NOT SAYING THAT WAS THE CAUSE,I WAS BREASTFEEDING A VERY HUNGRY TWISTY BABY AND HAD MANY OTHER PROBLEMS GOING ON AROUND ME SO COULD HAVE HAPPENED WITH OR WITHOUT THE PILL BUT IT CERTAINLY DIDN'T HELP.