Can you explain what pmdd feels like?

[Lottiebugz22]

And how do you feel the rest of the time?

2 weeks of hell starting from ovulation. High anxiety, panic attacks, fatigue, brain fog, insomnia, depression. Horrible cramps from ovulation lasting until my period is gone, back ache, joint pain. Mental side of it all lifts about 3 days into my period then I get around 2 weeks of feeling normal. Awful condition.

I think I've been living with it a long time...I've been to the doctors lots of times but they just describe me anti depressants. The 2 weeks of feeling 'normal' resonates with me because I said this to my partner the other week, I only feel normal for a short period of time. Like settled happy normal.

I also felt the best mentally when I was pregnant.

Mine was my depression and anxiety getting 10000x worse in the 10 days before my period. Then I'd have a couple of days of intrusive thoughts.

The medication I'm on (mirtazapene and propranolol) seem to have stopped it though

I'm going to ask the dr for propranolol as the trychiardia and panic attacks caused by the hormone fluctuations at ovulation are sending me over the edge. Did you put on weight with mirtazapene @PorpentiaScamander?

for me, its almost feeling like a different person. Angry, intolerant, snippy, tearful, argumentative.
its about 10 days before my period and then when my period comes im ok again. During perimenopause my period sometimes comes every 14 -18 days though, or was like that pre-HRT and I just felt like I was barely in control and would have been better if noone was near me and had no responsibilities

@Lo5tcause ummm. Dunno. I'm disgustingly fat anyway and dont weigh myself. I think ive gained a little bit, but I'd rather be fat than feel like I'm going insane like I used to.

I was never diagnosed but I suspect I suffered from this for about a year. I can’t really tell you what it felt like because I don’t really remember. There are entire weeks missing from my memory at times. What I do remember is a feeling of absolute bleakness, it constantly felt like the world was ending and I was very weepy. Cognitive function was otherwise nil. I could barely write at the worst of it. It was the memory loss that was the most distressing though. Sometimes I would wake up and have zero recollection of anything for three or so days before hand. Nothing. It was really scary.

I have been diagnosed with it.

In my case I feel fine and normal most of the time, then will suddenly crash and become psychotic, completely rage-full, suicidal. For maybe 3-4 days. Then it will suddenly lift and I’ll feel amazing.

Like a PP, with PMDD I felt like I turned into a different person.
I was angry, fearful, very irritable, often couldn't bare to be near anybody. When my period arrived symptoms disappeared within hours, and did not return until a week or so before my next period.

I tried antidepressants but had only limited success. It got better when I learned that for some women PMDD can be a reaction to trauma, and had talking therapy to address my history of DV and sexual abuse.

Horrible scary intrusive thoughts, mainly, but only for four days before I bleed. I am struggling to conceive at the moment and the dread of pmdd as my 'extra punishment for failing' makes it feel worse, even though I know that that's illogical.

I am normally quite a logical person too but four days before I become quite obsessive compulsilve.