Help! I have been a real bitch with PMT lately - what can I do to help?

[CountessDracula]

A few times lately I have really gone into meltdown with pmt

Not totally out of the blue, I mean I have had stressy things to deal with. But the day before my period I have really really got bad, into a spiral of despair and misery and self-pity really. And have attacked dh in a most unconstructive and negative way. He is very understanding but I really don't want to be like this. I never have been before (well very very occasionally but this has been 3 times in 6 months)

Does anyone have any tips for preventing this or dealing with it?

I will do some research into these things and go to Holland & Barratt on the way home

Thanks all
It's nice to know you are not alone in these things

Oh and CHOCOLATE.
Contains iron and magnesium.

Prescription chocolate. Got to be a winner.

Oh god
I bought 4 tops at lunchtime
they are all going to be vile aren't they?

Stupid pmt induced shopping

oh god really
I have been right off chocolate since easter

I might diarise chocolate for a few days prior next month

There's a lot to be said etail therapy though especially if you keep the receipts

this is good, lots of stuff

retail obv

Oh CD I went shopping yesterday morning and bought three tops and a pair of jeans

Wow

"I know exactly when I'm due and I am usually aware of exactly why I'm screaming at my other half. But the knowledge doesn't seem to make any difference. Sometimes it's like being outside myself, watching and thinking 'oh, for goodness sake, give the poor man a rest, it's just your hormones, he's not an insensitive bastard"

That is me too

I usually know when my period is due as I become vvvvvvv greedy and will eat anything and everything in the house

as well as snapping at everyone in sight

nice image, yes? obnoxious and greedy, what a catch...

"Some believe that you should give into the cravings leading up to your period. After all, if you're craving it, your body probably needs it."

Now that is odd
on Tuesday mornign I had a normal breakfast
I sat there ravenously hungry all morning. I mean like knawing my own arm hungry

I just thought I was being a pig and had had my breakfast so could wait for lunch

next time I will listen to my body and go and get a kitkat

OO you sound like Miss Piggy

Morningpaper has been very useful too

She said to me that she feels like a demented wild animal when she has pmt

and

"CD Yes the demeneted animal. I mean in my head I think "Really, I'm not suicidal/homocidal, everything is jolly peachy" but it doesn't actually stop the GENUINE FEELINGS that I want to push my family off a cliff

then a few days later - PING! normal mummy again"

Now that is so true
They are GENUINE FEELINGS aren't they?
Stupid, irrational ones
but genuine

...crossed with Animal on the drums

(are we showing our age?)

Try Osteocare tablets. I have been taken them for two months now and my period comes and goes without teh batter of an eyelid. Before this I was evil and had such awful thoughts about dh and others, I was a complete bitch - my children would also say why r u being so grumpy mummy., My friend whose pmt was nowhere near the level of mine recommended taking Vitamin D with calcium, after looking it up on the interenet, so I thought anything is worth a try, Had previously been taken well woman supplements, which contain the usual suspects, but they didnt come anyway close to the osteocare tablets. I have got about a years supply of them from boots as they were recently doing a good deal on vitamins, please please try them, have completely changed because of them.

I just read this on a blog

"I think our culture still expects women to be good-natured, compliant, happily accepting a subservient role. So when a woman gets angry or loud or emotional or sad or furious or indignant or pissed or weepy or rageful or strident or outspoken .... we blame it on PMS. If a woman has a 28-day cycle, that means she has PMS about half the time. Should we write a woman off for half of her existence?

Or perhaps we should see PMS as a hormonal surge that empowers her. Perhaps we should look at PMS as the timing of her cycle that brings out her best self, the self that she allows to be angry and outspoken, the self who isn't going to put up with a lot of garbage.

So I am here to say this. PMS is a good thing. Let's celebrate it. Embrace it. Maybe there are things we should be getting angry about"

sorry but pmsl. You need a parade CD

I will
thanks

I need them anyway as am prone to osteopoenia

ooh no
It is only one day
and I am a beast adn I create the garbage

have just scoffed some nuts and raisins

CD yes it is hard because the feeling are genuine

It's hard to separate yourself from the feelings

And you look back and say "A-ha!" but it is too late by then

It's scary how the chemical balance between cheery-woman and crazed-suicidal-depressive can be so easily tipped

you see I am not good at being a crazed suicidal depressive
It doesn't suit me at all
I am shit at crying as I then look like a nutter for the whole of the next day and have to feign make-up allergies

Write it on calendar in BIG RED LETTERS

PERIOD DUE

so whole family is warned

Then on the period week make sure you eat WHAT YOU WANT AND WHEN YOU WANT

I think my life as a woman has been a continuous sea of hormonal changes. When I was pg with ds I couldm feel such rage, and for a bit afterwards. I could see rationally that I was being bonkers really but the feelings of fury were hard to disapate.

Since mine periods have returned and I've only had a few but yet I've still had a return to those looking in the mirror moments and just wanting to cry and hating how I look. Yet I actually have a very good self image really, honest!

It is an interesting gender to be. My dp is so laid back, good job really.

Poor you. I heard from someone that this woman has good advice.

Yes all very well MP but I will then be a FAT-ter- crazed suicidal depressive which might make me more crazed and suicidal and depressive

No it won't

Becuase you will have more energy

And also all the fried food and chocolate is just turning into WATER RETENTION i.e. water