PMT or Period - Sobs or Rants!

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I'm 14, I used to be fine ages 11 to 12(they started at 11), but then I started getting terrible cramps, water retention, backache, and mild headaches at 13. About 6 months ago I started getting episodes of depression leading unto my period, and I'd be ridiculously happy when not on/near my period.
I now take 10mg of Citalopram everyday, and at first I was neutral the whole time, and now I'm slightly happy all the time .
I still get all the physical pain, but pain killers make it bearable .
The main downside, when this happiness(6 months ago) started, I'd be hungry non-stop, and have to eat in-order to be-able to function. My weight was steady, because the PMT would make me hardly want to eat. Only now, I'm starving 85% of the time, and have gained some weight :/.

This is a bit TMI, but due to sensitivity, can anyone feel the blood coming out? :l


Please tell me if any of that doesn't make sense .

^I always presumed every woman could feel it too. I hate it, it's such a gross feeling.

I have a bit of PMT I think, seem to have been getting upset a bit more easily than usual.

I'm going to see how this goes. After suffering longer than I should on a pill (generic ortho tri-cyclen), that left me with a lot of side effects (including visual migraines, ugh, the worst-- I'm still trying to reign in my horrid sleep issues that seem to coincide with my cycles), I was just switched to a mini-pill called Nora-BE as of a week ago. As I understand this, it's a type of progestin. I just hope this won't be like how I was on the depo shot how my body decided to spot constantly for 6 months straight.

I notice that I tend to follow what someone posted in previous pages: when I don't get lots of physical pain (never pain free though, just less of it), I end up lashing out emotionally and crying over stupid stuff (like not having oreos at 2am, as one fine example). The thing that has always gobsmacked me with my PMS problems are always how my sensory issues are always so much worse around that time-- it could be that my sensitivity is heightened in some way. Like, the other weeks in the month, I definitely love to be touched. PMS? I'm all agehrgioahrgih don't touch me!! It just irritates me that much.

as a teen, my pain was more of the hit-by-a-mack-truck body aches from head to toe making a surprise appearance in the least expected part of the night. Once I was older and on the pill, I noticed a funny trend. It was predictable. Like, I'd start with a headache and everything would work its way down, boobs, abs, then finally muff. A lot of times though I cramp in my lower back instead though.

Another thing I've noticed too, is if I eat foods rich in sulfur (like eggs for instance) my pain tends to be less severe.

And the thing that I've not seen anyone mentioning yet, is the swelling. For as long as I can remember, every period, not just my uterus, but my vagina, my entire muff and generally everything around my pubic bone gets swollen and so tender to touch (I even hate sitting, it's that bad, usually I end up pacing around the house driving everyone mad). It was even that way when I started getting periods even as a teen. Maybe I'm just an odd creature. I don't know. I recall this time, maybe a couple of years ago, when had (I know, sorry, tmi), my bf finger me and I flipped orientation from laying on my back to laying on my stomach and he was like "omg, your veins in your vagina suddenly got so poofy and everything is getting swollen" and I then left to use the bathroom and got my period. A lot of time it'll happen to me after an orgasm as well. Like my body will be like "send signals to... oh hai, wait a minute, while we're here, it's time for your period!" But it's like everything swells up in an instant on moment's notice.

Reading some of the posts, I think I am lucky... I usually don't have cramps and it doesn't last long, 2 or 3 days... I do have unpleasant symptoms BEFORE it starts : insomnia, migraines, I take on at least five pounds of water, even my face looks puffy... And I'm aggressive, I can't stand noise (I usually can't, but it's worse then), I feel my teeth getting longer as would like to kill anyone that's in my way (joke! second degree!), I'm more prone to anxiety... Hum! now that I'm writing it, I see that it sounds bad, but really, it's not so bad because I know it's just hormones... Which I didn't realize until I had a kid, because being pregnant and then breastfeeding, and being free of these symptoms for a year and a half, I suddenly made the link (eureka!) when they came back. So now I can laugh about it. As stupid as it sounds, before that, I hadn't realized that the big existential crisis I was going through every month for at least a week was almost strictly hormonal...

Hum! My experience perse is not all that interesting, but I thought I should post because, for the past few years, I've tried something that seems to alleviate these symptoms a lot : taking soy bean isoflavones and complex B vitamins as a daily routine. Regular physical training too. Those symptoms I used to get for a week or so, I now have for one or two days, if at all...

^^ Soy mimics estrogen so that makes sense.

Hanyo, that's scary! I hope everything goes well!

I got the colposcopy today. It was pretty awful but any penetration is pretty awful for me. I still have to wait for the results from that.

What I'm most worried about right now is getting the packing out tomorrow. My cervix bleeds easily and they did biopsies so they put in packing to stop the bleeding. I'm scared I won't be able to get it out and I'll have to go back tomorrow and have them dig it out of there.

^Hopefully you were ok after that.

I've got cramps again. :/

It was difficult but after many tries I was able to find it and get it out.

You know what's weird? I have NO cramps this month. My period came last night and I was absolutely PAIN-FREE the entire freakin' next day. This has NEVER happened before!

^^^ me too. i didnt even get my usual pms symptoms which is plain weird and im still waiting for the pain and nausea to hit.

wouldnt it be nifty if this thread were stickied? i hear these period things come monthly most times...

^I tend to find that if I don't get bad symptoms (mental and physical) before it then when it starts they happen anyway. Seems there's no escaping it.

I had the horrible, bloated feelings before it began and now it's arrived I'm not feeling that great. I'm sure it makes me even more tired which would make sense I guess. Getting fed up with half my life being affected by it.

I'm going to the doctor today to get some test results and will probably get scheduled for a hysterectomy and will never have a period again. I won't miss it.