PMT or Period - Sobs or Rants!

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i started this morning. i had to shuffle outside in the dark because it was that early and thats where i keep my pads. im so hungry and i did not prepare well enough for this. i have no ready made food anywhere in the house, i have eaten my way through a packet of timtams, fairy bread, oatmeal, microwaved bananas, cheese sandwiches, hot chocolate, tuna, croisants, a cookie and various other things and i still feel like my stomach is burning. it was worse earlier. i tried pulling an all nighter so i felt doubly nautious and dizzy too and the pain wasn't terrible but it was still there. i want food so bad but i can still taste the chocolate on my breathe and i know i shouldnt eat more.
edit: 2 days later and the pain hits. wonderful. my back is in excruciating pain and its radiating outwards. and im cramping in the usual places. my hips hurt.
and i hate tampons. i mean i see their plus' but it hurts going in and its excruciating going out. like a file.

i woke up at 4:00am with intense period pain and basically just rolled around and moaned for 2 hours while i pounded & kneeded my belly trying to make it better and the pills i took did nothing. i slept not at all last night and now my schedule is all off. i couldn't stand up because i felt so sick and my blood pressure was really low and i was worried i might black out while i was crawling to the loo. and i leaked a little. i hate my uterus.

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Buy some Postan. It's about $8.50 at the chemist - I promise it will help.

Although I've been on the Pill and was supposed to have one period every three months, it turned out that my period would last for an entire month. I really didn't mind, as long as it kept the menstrual cramps away. Unfortunately, I've run out of pills and I don't go for my next Gyn appointment until February, so I'm going to have a few months of total hell as far as cramping goes.

So I'm supposed to get my period within the next week.

Since I've realized that I have some AS traits, especially where socializing is concerned, I've noticed that I seem to struggle more (significantly so) with socializing and connecting with others during the week before my period. I think when I'm feeling tired and puffy, it's harder for me to create the right amount of energy and intonation in the conversation. I either come across muted and disengaged, or more tense. Does anyone else find this is true for them? Does this happen to NT women as well in some way? Any advice?

Interestingly, once I start my period, the opposite is true. I tend to feel notably more energetic, calm, and positive once my period starts- and feel more comfortable socially as a result. I don't have any physical symptoms once my period actually starts, which I'm grateful for.

The last time I had a period was in August, and I just got another one the day before Thanksgiving. I'm still a virgin so obviously I'm not pregnant. I think the reason is because of my increased dosage of Risperidone, which messes with prolactin levels and can cause irregular periods. My flow is extremely heavy from not having bled in months - I leaked onto my bed and computer chair last night despite using a heavy pad. Other than that, my period hasn't made me feel any worse than periods usually do, though my mom says I do look a little pale.

my period is here and it feels horrible. the pain is crippling, my back hurts, , i have hot flushes, i have the runs, i feel queasy and hungry at the same time and i do not know if i can take painkillers or other drugs with my hiv retroviral drugs so i'm going to have to do this alone and it might be a "super period" this month but f**k i'm so glad to be having it. i'm so f*****g happy. oww. cramps.

Unbelievably my period has started on Christmas morning the past three years. :/ Thanks Santa! I'm beginning to wonder whether the ibuprofen I need to take for the cramps gives me headaches though; the decision between a rock or a hard place.

Bumping an old thread because of CRAMPS!! !! !! !! !! Also my back hurts and my head and I am on a diet and I keep eating chocolate. MUST RESIST!!

My new mantra. "at least I'm not pregnant. at least I'm not pregnant....."

Tired and annoyed again about everything and really fed up with this place, I should just leave; maybe I'll find a bit of sanctuary in my own thread.

AAARRRGGHH. I f*****g hate being in a female body. I've had all I can take of it.

I am due my period, and I am too tired to function. I have a hyperactive dog who needs a walk, s**t everywhere that needs cleaning up, a bunch of litter trays that need cleaning and I'm tired and weak to the point that I can barely lift one leg and put it in front of the other to walk without feeling muscles burn as if I've been running for miles.

I am done. I hate breasts, I hate not having any muscle, I HATE babies and I hate losing time out of my life to my f*****g reproductive system.

In earlier days I had terrible aches a day before my period started, and it always started with a flush from now to then. So the aches went all down my back, as if a fist from inside would have grabbed my spinal column and try to pull it into the middle of my body. Additional I had belly aches and cramps and couldnt eat, because it caused so much pain when the food got into the belly cramp area.

The aches vanished when I received a copper spirale as pregnancy prevention. I didnt have childs yet. so my brith channel (zervix) was never opened by force until the copper spirale and my doctor said, that because of my birth channel/zervix being so tight, the blood of my menstruation gathered itself in my uterus and could not go on through the zervix into the inner vagina.

Because of that my body did what is natural for him to get rid of things that are stuck ^^ in his uterus, he tries to push them out with muscle cramps, nothing else than little labor pains. If what I endured were "little" labor pains, then I already know that I want to have the typical little spiral column anesthetization, when getting a baby, So no illusions about natural birth without painkillers and all that stuff. ^^

Luckily, with the copper spirale opening my cervix, this problem is now gone and my menstruation is now starting quite normal and slowly with some drops and not like a toilet flush afer 8 hours of cramps. ^^

The PMT is still causing myself problems, so I do know that I have one and I try not to have any conflicts around that time, but to keep them for later if I then still feel the same about the conflicts. But still it sucks, so I am emotional very vulnerable around 2-3 days before my menstruation, sometimes everything is ok, and sometimes a little rejection makes me cry, let me start to think if life for me have any sense, if it wasnt better to kill myself because nothing is fun, everything is bad. Its simply horrible. So two days afterwards I cant believe that I was so sad, and that I couldnt see any meaning in life anymore, that I didnt care anymore for my partner and so on. So knowing of it helps me a bit, because at least I I know its the PMT I say to myself "Its ok. Its only the PMT. You really do feel now horrible, but in two days everything will be alright again and you will be able laugh again and to feel happiness and so on." so I simply try to get trough this two days by distracting myself with a computer games or something, but I really, really hate it. May sound weird, but when it gets to bad I had some good experiences with marihuana. So I still want to be alone in that time, but at least its better then sitting two days full of depression and crying and thinking about the meaning of life before your computer.

I didn't really used to notice mine until I got a boyfriend last May (woohoo!) and then as the relationship went on, I began to think more about contraception and stuff like that so I went on the pill. But I found it made me very anxious (more so than usual) so I went back to the doctor and he gave me another. That had the same effect, so I gave up and since then it's like I've been on period alert. I note down how many days my cycle is, how heavy, how painful, what symptoms, PMS, etc, then panic if something seems a bit out. Like I know it's quite normal to have a 30 day cycle but I panic myself so much, I end up googling things and convincing myself I'm ill somehow when I'm not.

My actual period symptoms aren't too bad...I've noticed I get quite bad cramps on day one, sometimes paired with the runs which is absolutely hell. The symptoms themselves I don't really mind. It's the fact that life gets in the way. I mean, who wants to go to work when they're bleeding and on the toilet all day?

I don't know if I'm the only one but my period makes really anxious on the grounds of that I don't know when it's coming. I can get a general idea, by looking in my diary and go, oh it's been 30 odd days, and by my PMS (which usually involve breasts being tender and my under arm really hurting, not to mention I become the most depressed/angry person this side of the Atlantic...) but I'm the sort of person who'd like a guaranteed day, you know? I could go, oh it'll be here on Tuesday, so I won't see the boyfriend til Wednesday and I'll go shopping on Monday. Then I could organise myself rather then spend an entire week worrying only to have come next Monday.

ARGH! I thought I finally finished up. Nothing happened for twenty four hours so I took off my pad, was fine all evening, went to bed, got up, went to work all fine, and then around eleven this morning...BAM! It's back and worse than ever! I'M SO PISSED OFF!