PMT.............

[laurasarah]

Not sure where to start but here goes

I think I have really bad PMT or could it be depression? I have been quite down in the past and have been on ADs but I'm no starting to wonder whether its all down to this as I've been keeping a diary of my mood patterns.

About 2 weeks before my period is due I get sore breasts and then my mood plummets like you wouldnt believe! My feelings towards my DH especially change rapidly. I cant bear him anyway near me and everything he does seems to get on my nerves. I feel very tearful, miserable, like I just want to run away etc etc. Then when its all over I can see how unreasonable I've been.

Went to the docs who told me to get some St John's Wort which I have been taking for about 5 months. Felt so much better and like my normal self again but then for some reason this month I'm totally off the map again.

Last night I had a right go at DH for something that wouldnt normally bother me and then I felt awful but was raging inside and I was so wound up I could sleep. I feel terrible.

Can anyone help please............

I take Magnesium-Ok tablets and omega oil ones hoping they will help with PMT. Some people swear by something called something like Agnus Cactus (not sure the real name, sorry!). I haven't taken that but am hoping the other supplements will help. Perhaps this month you're just having a really bad PMT month? I don't know anything really about St John's Wort. I have some on the sideboard but haven't taken any.

Thanks Beckybendylegs

Do you have some of the symptoms I describe and how do you cope with it?

I have the mood thing and it is horrible as as soon as period arrives I'm happy again. It started vafter ds3 born in November at least when periods came back. Sorry bad typing ds3 on knee!

Yes I think mine started after DS2 was born bout 6 years ago.

How bad do you feel and have you been to docs?

I went to the docs in January just saying I couldn't sleep and was feeling anxious and not able to cope and he said I had mild PND and gave me perscription for fluoxidine ADs. I hated them so stopped taking them (on his agreement). I haven't been since, just getting on with things but since I have noticed that my mood depends on my cycle. I do keep wondering whether I should go back again and ask about the pill...

Guess what I got my period yesterday and I feel so much better.

I am thinking about going back to docs. I am really early this time though only 24 days since last one so I dont know if I've just had a bad month. The St John's Wort has been brilliant though and I cant understand how this month I feel so bad. I said to my DH though you really are just going to have to ignore me at that time because I am horrible to live with. Thing is I dont really want to go back on Pill or taking any ADs so theres not really anything I can do.

Its easy to just get on with things when you've had your period and you feel fine but not so good when you feel like shit again.

Good Luck. X

marking this thread!! I am PM for about two weeks.

I suffer PMT when my period begins and for that week life is a nightmare. little things annoy me and DP makes it worse by following me and copping himself and blaming me for everything and that i'm horrible to be around. I just say if you can't deal with me at my worst for a week then you don't deserve me at my best for the rest of the time.

I went to docs and she agreed PMT and prescribed me vitamin B tablets as we already know I have to much proestrogen so possibly gone off the scale again and this should help it balance off again.

I know i'm horrible to be around but I just want ppl to leave me alone and let me get on with things in that week and then i'm totally fine. However, I know PMT is over this month but this 2 week half term is doing my swede in DD wants constant attention to the point I can't even go to toilet without her following .

Hope you get it sorted

My period is due any day now and I've been feeling bloated and crampy since Friday. My mood is a bit better than usual though, very tearful but not quite so down, so perhaps the vit B / Magnesium OK and fish oil tablets are helping. I'm much less anxious than I was last month at this time (but also had hypnotherapy session for anxiety).

PMT is horrible though, isn't it? I hate the mood swings.

I hate mood swings too, so hoping the vit B will help me out a bit

hopefully this month won't be so bad

I have horrific as described PMT, and am seriously thinking the only way to solve it is to get pregnant again!

I had a long discussion with GP about it, and there is no known cure for everyone - different things work for different people. It is an age thing apparently rather than a number of children thing......for the first 2 weeks your body is thinking "ooooooh here comes the egg, fertilise me, fertilise me, its going to happen, bring on the sperm etc etc", then after a few weeks the body realises that nothing is happening and that is when the "you bastard, you useless fu%&ing cow, you were supposed to get some sperm, why am I not being used, time is running out for more babies" begins and life becomes unbearable.

Sorry, PMT ranting, but that is basically what the doctor hilariously told me, and she said nothing will stop this in reality !

I said that to my DP but I want a baby to give DD a sibling anyway. Also the bonus that it will level out my hormones, don't think he was too impressed.

LadyBlaBlah love it!

Watch your sugar intake when you are in the danger spot of having PMT. Low GI food, little and often, ladies....

Is there specific foods that are we should eat more and food to avoid?

No evidence that any change to foods works!

I've found hardcore exercise works for me. running/spinning really lift my mood and also help with the fat feeling that also weirdly gets me down during pmt. it's like I can feel fat hanging off me (I'm size 12/14 so it isn't that much).

ok thanks, hmm what else is there to mellow out?!

yoga. meditiation. getting away from your family and enjoying you time. do you do art or play music?

That's it 120, solitary confinement !

I'd pay good money for that right now. for about a year.

I do cardmaking and scrapbooking and go to craft club, I also try and go swimming when I can too.

Does your scrap book reflect your mood? For example, does the day before you are due on have lots of pictures of knives and axes and guns?

I don't have time to read the full thread, so forgive me if I repeat advice already given: when I was 19 I had a proper breakdown (rocking backwards and forwards in the college GP surgery weeping 'why won't anyone help me', etc. etc.). After a lot of questioning and consideration they concluded that my PMT had got so bad it was sort of joining up into one endless bout of depression. I was put on ADs (low dose, six months only: I suspect largely as a placebo) and on the Pill. By the time I came off the ADs the Pill had regulated my violently swinging hormones and I was on an even keel again.

worth exploring and as I say, apols if this ground has already been covered! Best of luck to you.

Changes to diet certainly won't cure it LadyB, agreed, but my personal experience is that sugar spikes have a massive effect on my mood. And that this is particularly compounded around PMT-time, just when I am most reaching for the soft drinks and the choco.

The pill is great yes, but a bastard to come off.

I find when I have PMT my anger isn't towards DH but my inlaws. Why is that? They don't provide me with sperm for a baby. But they came round yesterday and I was like a sulky teenager, totally unnecessarily as they are lovely, but I just wanted to tell them to 'go away please leave me alone and stop being so rude word nice all the time' (not in those exact words).

Having said that this month is definitely better than last, the vits and magnesium must be helping I'm sure!