Anyone NOT get PMS?

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I don't know what exactly the h*ll PMS is. I've never had it, I feel the same all month long except when I have meltdowns. I don't even know when my periods come because I don't keep track (for what? I don't exactly have a lot of sex.).

It depends on current events.

Never really had this at all. Results of poll are interesting!

I've never had PMS.

One of my college professors (social psychology) said that studies suggest that PMS is one of many socially created physical problems that exist in cultures around the world. The society perpetuates the idea that a large segment of the population experiences a certain physical phenomenon, so a large segment of that segment actually experiences what their society says they will. It's a psycho-somatic sort of thing.

I think this could be true for a certain percentage of PMS sufferers. In reference to the poll results, aspies could be resistant to these cultural illnesses because we are more detached from society in general than most people.

OTOH, I doubt that PMS is 100% culturally induced. The symptoms are consistent with the hormone fluctuations that women experience to varying degrees, depending on the individual. So it would make sense that some percentage of the population would suffer from the effects of these changes in hormonal levels.

It is interesting that men have hormonal cycles and fluctuations too, yet these are recognized only by scientists who study these things and essentially unknown to society at large. What if male hormonal cycles were understood by the general populace? What kinds of concepts and myths would arise from that?

I do not experience PMS, although I have been the victim of those who do.

I had terrible PMS before I began taking Dilantin for seizures at age 24. It thinned out my blood and lessened my cramps considerably.

I have PMDD so yeah so I get it bad.

No PMS except for retaining water.

I get pms, mildly though. I normally don't agitated, but just amazingly clumsy.

Some months for me are worse than others but I do usually do get it pretty bad. The reason that some months are worse than others is because there has been a change in diet, exercise, stress, events, etc.. any little thing can throw my cycle out and its extremely frustrating!! ! Some months I get very ravenous with my eating and other months I feel nauseated a lot. Some months I am that b***h from hell too And I am just usually very tired and get headaches. Hate that time of the month!! And you should have seen me when I was pregnant, especially with my son

The post above by "release the bats" is the closest thing to a scientific answer I've ever found on this topic! I've never had emotional symptoms of PMS, only physical, and only on the first day of my period. The other day I mentioned to co-workers that I thought PMS was a myth, and I thought they were going to attack me! So then I started thinking..geeze maybe they are all having PMS right now, and that's the reason for an insanely irrational reaction to someone's opinion? haha but seriously, this mysterious thing called PMS seems to be nothing more than women refusing to control their emotions. I really don't get it. Every month like clock work, my sister flips out and gets all dramatic and easily offended. So bizarre! I'm just glad that doesn't happen to me. During that time of the month I just get kind of tired and even more mellow than usual. Am just fine with never knowing the true effects of PMS, if there are any!

A man goes to work, has a terrible day being yelled at by his boss, comes home, flings his briefcase in the hall, yells at his kids and slumps on the sofa. Verdict of society? He had a tough day.

A woman goes to work, gets yelled at all day by her boss, comes home exhausted, has to start making tea for the kids and her useless ass husband sulking on the sofa, supervise homework, get the kids to bed, and be always cheerful, and if she snaps once, it's either PMS or the menopause is to blame, because society delegitimises and pathologises women's lives in a way it doesn't for men.

Every serious scientific study ever conducted shows that physical symptoms are common but the psychological symptoms are imaginary.
They are also implausible because we also know what these hormones do. Estrogen is a natural anti depressant. That's why all women experience the ,baby blues' after a birth, because the high levels leave their system with a crash on day 3 or 4. If we give men or women a dose of them, it levels mood. And yet slightly raised levels are supposed to increase moodiness? Biologically they actually not only don't do that, they do the opposite, and that's what much of this research shows, that women who claim to have PMS not only don't really experience a drop at that time of the month, but interestingly become better at multitasking and more creative - which makes more biological sense anyway.

Yet society fills people's head so much with rubbish women themselves buy into the PMS argument to explain why they feel,lousy - because they really do feel horrible, and this gives them a legitimate way of expressing that. But in reality it is other things that are causing the upset, not that the upset isn't real.

Personally, I get a lot of water retention, which makes my boobs hurt like crazy, and sometimes that makes me cranky - but I call it what it is, fluid retention, because I don't like perpetrating false beliefs that are used to undermine women and make them look less reliable than men when there is no actual evidence for that.

i don't think so.
i've occasionally gotten grumpy but only due to physical discomfort, like for me lower back pain is the worst and can cause me to act generally annoyed with everything.
but i can't positively attribute any other mental attitudes to my menstrual cycle.

never, i have no idea what is like