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Crippling pre period anxiety and tiredness

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futzwilliam · 23/04/2023 21:18

I have 3 children. The youngest is 9 months. My periods came back about 4 months ago, very soon after I stopped breast feeding.

The past 3 months/cycles, in the 3-4 days before my period arrives, I have had crippling, all consuming anxiety. I worry about anything and everything. It's extreme and I can hardly work with it. I make fairly mild day to day issues or life complexities into absolutely massive, worst case scenario eventualities in my mind.

I also get floored with tiredness. Today I have slept for huge parts of the day which I never do. I feel bad I've hardly been able to hang out with the kids all day.

I'm not on any contraceptive pill yet.

Does anyone else have this. Any suggestions on what I could do to make it better. I didn't have this before baby no3. The tiredness, yes, albeit more normal levels of tiredness, but not the anxiety.

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koalab · 23/04/2023 21:21

Following this. Since having my youngest I've had the anxiety and tiredness too. I've fallen asleep at my desk (WFH) and had to pull over when driving because of the tiredness.

TeenLifeMum · 23/04/2023 21:27

Maybe get your ferritin or iron levels checked? My ferritin was really low and I was exhausted and more anxious.

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