Girly problem & resulting sensory overload.

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Every time I have my period I get severe sensory overload from the things I need to use for it. Right now I am laying down on my bed (I have my period) in one position, because every time I sit, I start crying / shouting due to severe sensory (tactile) overload. I cannot leave the house as walking with this thing makes me want to scream.

My psychiatrist said that she wouldn't feel happy with me going on the pill or depot contraceptive, because of certain side-effects.

What can I do?? I'm going mad.

I'm going to ignore my psychiatrist and ask my GP to put me on the contraceptive pill, to completely halt my periods.

Be careful, sometimes the side effects are worse than the original problem

steelmaiden,
am in the middle of getting the pill sorted out as well though not for sensory reasons,mine are acutely brutal in pain,fatigue and epilepsy triggering,they last much longer than a week and come around before a month is up,am being recommended to gp by the ss learning disability team for the depo [injection version] as am on so many pills already but woud recommend asking for the pill version because the depo one lasts for three months and if its not reacting well to body well are stuck with the side effects till they wear off.

am surprised to find out are female,always thought were male,the name just sounds like a dedication to iron maiden.

Thanks I will be calling my GP on Monday.

I took some extra olanzapine and it's kicked in now so I'm calm.

I'm sorry to hear you suffer so much.

Yep I'm female. People often say I am rather male in both appearance and personality. I even dress like a man.

While I wish I had some life-altering advice, I am just posting to commiserate and to thank you for posting this. I thought it was just me, that I was the only one who turned into super-aspie right before my period. I have a sensory room in my home, where I keep a weighted blanket and black curtains and other sensory items and where my family knows to just let me be, but it doesn't make the sensitivity go away, it just helps me cope with it. I consume more PRN's (clonazepam) right before my period than even on meltdown days. I wish there was a solution, because it is so overwhelming.

Thank you for posting this and making me feel less alone with this side of my AS.

You're welcome.

I would like a sensory room.

I have been in my bedroom for almost three days, except for food, water and bathroom

Somehow I have to go to uni tomorrow.

I hope I won't have a meltdown.

There's a pill that can do that? would it also prevent those horrid menstrual cramps if I didn't have to endure that it would be great. Just might have to look into this.

Progesterone cream might help. I started using it about 4-5 months ago and it has helped me tremendously. I was really suffering before. I had very heavy periods, with severe cramps and ovary pain. I would spend 2-3 days in bed every time I had my period. Now the pain is very mild, and I am bleeding much less than I was. My cycles are a bit longer (before was 21-23 days, now 24-25).

Yes. I started in 2006, after being reluctant to do so for many years but finally realizing I couldn't function that way anymore. It doesn't completely halt them, but they are really, really light and only last for about 3 days, maximum. Plus, I know exactly when it's coming, the cramps are minimal, and the mood swings are reduced in duration, if not intensity...well, somewhat in intensity.

Take a look, ask your doctor (hope I didn't sound like a commercial just then ). It may help, a lot.

@SteelMaiden: hope you feel better, and that this can help you too. The "side-effects" vary, and not everyone will get them, but monitor yourself carefully for the first few months for anything that seems odd/troubling.

The pill I'm taking not only reduced my horrrible menstrual mood swings, but completely halted my period. On the other hand when my mother started taking it her cycle actually got a little stronger. The pill I was taking before gave me acid reflux, while my mother had no side effects.
You can't know if you don't try, but it's absolutely worth trying. Not having to endure monthly pain, uncomfortableness and bordering-on-suicidal mood swings is AWESOME.

I'm not sure what you mean the thing you use for. Pads? Tampons? Why not try another method? Or another brand? I can't stand pads at all, so as soon as I moved out (and was buying my own stuff) I switched to tampons. Eventually I switched to cups and they're even better. In my own experience Always pads and Tampax tampons are the worst in both textures and functions. There are so many options nowadays it's worth trying them before thinking of stopping periods all together.

BTW if you have cramps, try raspberry leaf tea, for PMS try nettle leaf tea. I didn't really believe they make any difference but they did. Is your hormones balanced? If any of them is too high or too low, you might get all sort of weird symptoms with no clear cause. Might be worth it to get them checked. It's just a simple blood test.

If its only about the cramps, that are disturbing you, any kind of UID might as well be of help for you. (Including copper IUD that dont have hormonal side effects.)

After I got my first copper IUD inserted, I did not get cramps anymore. It seems the problem was simply, that because of me having conceived no child until then, the channel from my uterus to my vagina was absolutely tight/nearly closed. So when the uterus started to bleed, it could not get the blood out, because of the channel being totally close. That caused pressure on it and additionally the natural way of your uterus to manage to remove "items" that he wants to get rid of is by simply causing your (birth-)channel to do certain movements (= mini birth pangs) to become widened, which feel like those typical cramps.

After my copper IUD was inserted, that luckily did not happen anymore, so the UID luckily had widened the channel as well a bit.

(And if those cramps were "mini" birth pangs, then I already know having the "real" birth pangs, will be tons of fun. ^^)

I have a whole bag of raspberry leaf I can use to make tea, which actually does help with the cramping...though sometimes it takes a long time to really notice much relief. Though I don't think I really get PMS, I don't really notice much mood change...just irritable from the pain from cramps.

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I'm on my period right now and finding my sensory issues are more then normal.