Seriously bad PMT :(

CarMe

Ok so I just had a shower and while in there I'd usually be thinking of nice normal things from what I need to do tomorrow, how great my baby is and my boyfriend, thinking how lucky I am to just everyday mundane things. Instead this time I was thinking irrational stuff, getting really p!ssed off thinking of an innocent comment a friend made the other day and thinking how I could "get her back", like a bitchy comment or something. Very immature and cruel and totally out of character. Then while I was drying myself I fell into a silent rage thinking how angry I'll be if my boyfriend hasn't cleaned up the cans from him and his mate last night and how inconsiderate it is that he forgot to get me one thing from the shop when it had been on a list, I believed he forgot that particular thing because it was for me so just didn't bother, I mean I felt seriously raging. Then I came on boards and saw a thread about agnostics(which I'd consider myself to be) and I got so angry at the posts by some people I felt were being too over the top in their opinions, agnostic or otherwise. So angry I had to move away from that thread but THEN started thinking about this particulary religious friend I have and how even though she knows my beliefs or lack of, when something's wrong she'll always say "oh I'll say a prayer for you", then remembered how she said it lots when my mam was sick and died and I felt so furious with her for this!

All these things are totally out of the ordinary for me normally but I feel so irrationally angry just before I'm due, every month!! It's awful I hate feeling like this it turns me into such a horrible angry person. Does anyone else experience things like this, is there anything I can do to help it?

seenitall

Yes, OP, I recognise myself in everything you wrote there. Just lost the plot last night over something very, very trivial. I'm due mine any minute now, as well. The irrationality that can beset me at this time of month can really feel unnerving.

For me, this has just started happening in the last year or so, so it may have something to do with the hormonal balance shifting with age. Anyway, I've started taking a supplement with the starflower and evening primrose oils, so hopefully it will help a bit.

Toad-Girl

Literally came here to post almost an identical thread! Mine just started today and I knew it was coming last night because after being downright bitchy to my room-mate all day for essentially no reason I was awake half the night crying about ridiculous things like the the weight i've gained recently and how everyone else has nice things (clothes, etc) but me and how i'll never be able to afford any of them at the rate i'm going. More or less entirely out of the blue. Was considering going on the pill for some relieve but from what i've read/heard, it'll have little effect on the hormonal side-effects of my period. Almost bought a packet of evening primrose tablets recently, but from what i've read they mainly relieve the physical symptoms, which I wouldn't exactly mind but they aren't nearly as troubling to me as the emotional side. I really hate this time of month, I know i'm horrible to be around and I just feel terrible for the full week it's here. Anyone have any tried and tested remedies? Also i'm open to correction on what i've said about the evening primrose, just what i'd gathered!

Miss Fluff

I'm back taking Microlite now so it's not so bad but if I'm not taking an oral contraceptive and/or evening primrose oil then I'm an overly-emotional, hyper-sensitive angry loonly lady for a day or two beforehand - I feel your pain OP

Piglet85

OP, I really feel for it. I'm on Cerazette now and it seems to have MASSIVELY improved my PMT symptoms, thank God, but I used to suffer so much. I'm quoting a post I wrote on this years ago below, as it might have some useful tips in it.

Unreg85 wrote: »

I know how you feel, I used to get seriously depressed for around five days each month too. Not angry, just incredibly down. I was paranoid, constantly crying... the only way I can describe it really is that I just felt totally wild and crazy, and so terribly sad. I had insomnia, hot flushes, the works.

I don't know if you're tried any natural remedies? I took evening primrose oil and it helped for a while but not enough, and the same with vitamin B6. Then last Febrauary I read a book called "Natural Solutions to PMS: How to get rid of your premenstrual symptoms forever" by Dr. Marilyn Glenville. It's available on amazon. She goes through all the different symptoms and forms of PMS, and recommends dietary changes and natural remedies to help. I started taking a cocktail of different things straght away, I know the list looks excessive but it has changed my life completely. I am a different person and it's absolutely worth it. Once a day I take:

Evening Primrose Oil
Vitamin B6
Magnesium
Omega 3,6,9
Agnus Castus
Black Cohosh
1 Multivitamin

I wouldn't recommend that you start taking all of these things because they're to suit my particular symptoms and you also need to make sure you're taking the right amounts of everything, but you should definitiely read the book, I found it so helpful. Also, Agnes Castus shouldn't be taken with the pill and I'm not sure but it's possible that Black Cohosh interferes with it too. So if you do decide to start taking things you should talk to your doctor first. Hope that helps!

CarMe

Oh thanks so much for the replies it's a huge relief to feel I'm not alone. It's crazy how I can know why I'm being so irritable but it doesn't stop me I've been huffing like Kevin and Perry all day and we're just in from doing a food shop which I found sooo stressful.
I'm on Yasmin at the moment and yes it does help but I think I'm just shocked because I didn't experience any pmt when pregnant so its so upsetting. Also I've been eating sh!te the past few days and I don't think that helps at all, feeling so frumpy, fat and miserable!
I have evening primrose oil I must start taking again! Thanks so much for all the great advice and empathy