Anyone else get the RAGE while pregnant?

[Lockerblocker]

I'm 25 weeks pregnant and I'd say for about the last month I've been struggling massively with anger. I seem to be angry all the time. I've eaten the head off people at work, kicked inanimate objects and completely lost it multiple times with my poor husband. I manage to keep it together in front of DD who's 18 months. I'm generally not an angry person and I didn't experience this last time. Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes I have, especially when pregnant with DS1! Im usually quite placid and laid back in nature so it took people back when I was the opposite lol. I confronted and had a row with our neighbour two doors down about parking issues and we're still not speaking lol. My hubby was shocked as usually I'd let it pass.
This pregnancy I am more weepy than angry so wonder if I am having a DD this time?!

Yep that's me too!

Yes!!! Really struggled with emotions and rage around the same time. It would come and go. I just couldn’t let things drop, was like PMT on steroids. I’m 31 weeks now and it has eased off but I am still occasionally getting stressy. Mostly it was rage bury sometimes I’d get tearful too.

I think the most annoying part is knowing I’m feeling hormonal rage/emotions but literally having no control over it. And then I get cross that my husband rises to it, when he could let things go...

Hope it passes for you soon!

Definitely me! I've kept it together at work but my DP does bear the brunt of it :( I'm also not an angry person but now I can be in a really good mood, and then one (tiny) thing will happen and it will either make me completely livid, or weep inconsolably.

Yesterday morning I had to take a urine sample of my first wee of the day to the GP surgery, and they'd given me the stuff (you had to use a little straw to sort of syringe the wee out of the pot and into the sample tube that had a special powder in it) and I messed up and got the powder everywhere and ruined it so knew I'd have to go and get a new sample tube and do it the next day. I slammed the bedroom door shut with both hands, then wept onto DP's shoulders while asking "why can't anything ever just go right??"

Yep! I literally hate my work colleagues (and I know in my head they're not all bad!). I was the same when I was pregnant with my DS. I have spoken to other people about it and they got it too! Just got to ride it out I guess!

Yeah, I was like a baiting bear towards the end with DD. It was like I’d had a total personality transplant.

I’m normally v laid back, but I started loudly tutting at complete strangers for doing things like stopping at the bottom of escalators.

I realised at 35 weeks I had to finish work earlier than my planned 38 weeks when I took a call from a very aggressive contractor. I just hung up during his rant because I couldn’t trust myself to keep a lid on my rage and turned to my boss and said “I’m too pregnant for this shit.” I finished the next day.

Thank God that other people have it. My DH says it's fine, he understands but work is a problem. I'm constantly having to apologise to colleagues because I'm so aggressive.

@PennyMordauntsLadyBrain I love that! Definitely too pregnant for any of this shit, and I'm sure he totally deserved to be hung up on! (Obviously Not so much fun having to start leave before you wanted to originally )
Im having a cross pregnancy and I'm only 6 weeks in. I was fine with my first two, so this doesn't really bode well...
@Lockerblocker it sounds tough going! Have you looked into anger management techniques? Although probably not much use if it's fundamentally hormonal. Argh!

I'm trying meditation but no joy so far.