Coping with mood swings in perimenopause

[Toothsil]

I'm 44 and for the last year or so, my periods have not been as regular as they were. I used to be exactly 4 weeks from the start of one to the start of the next but last year every now and again I'd go 5 or 6 weeks then back to normal. It was 6 weeks for my last one, and I was due a week past Saturday and still no sign, but I feel as if I have permanent, severe PMT at the moment. I'm normally a very calm person and don't get easily irritated but I've been getting so many feelings of what I can only describe as rage! It's horrendous and I'm not coping well. Little things like the cat blocking off my phone screen as I'm writing this, autocorrect changing things, etc, are making me feel so very angry, I just feel a rage building inside me! Especially when the bloody autocorrect won't change it back and the new suggested word is the stupidly spelt one! I brushed against the notice board in the kitchen earlier and knocked something off and it made me growl! I just feel on such a permanently short fuse and I hate it. I'm not a fun mum any more either because I'm so grumpy. DD denies it, bless her, but I know I'm foul! Can anyone recommend anything for the mood swings? I'm used to being such a calm person, I can't cope with permanent PMT! Someone just dropped something noise outside (there are builders down the road) and it went right through me and I felt the rage starting again. I hate this 😢

I had to go on hrt for this, My moods were horrific.

I've just gone on HRT. It has made a massive difference already, just 2 weeks in.

Hi toothsil,
Did you find any thing that helped you?
I'm going through pretty much the same, I started hrt over a month ago, but I get terrible mood swings aswell as panic attacks.

Please go see you HP for some blood work.

I was just like to - periods like clock work, then they started to become erratic. Then they started to get longer, and longer, heavier and heavier. Both Moods and then sleep disturbance.

To start, a mirena coil helped me. For a few years. I was “normal“ again (mirena though did stop my period). A few years of normality and then moods again, added into the mix occasional hot flash. I now have oestrogen patches. I also do Pilates/yoga / meditation now. I used to think it all a bit of woo. Not anymore. Really helps. You’ll need to think about changing your diet soon as the muffin top is something that soon starts to develop often when the periods start to go a bit funky. Collagen too for skin and joints.

You don’t have to suffer - go see your GP.