I am having a really bad week. This is the week before I start my period. I am 40 and have been in peri since my mid thirties. I alwys can tell when my hormones start to fall to prepare for a cycle. I feel depressed, irritable, cry at the bat of a hat, very emotional in general, sleep problems, more anxiety, I also get nausea. The closer my period comes the worse it gets. I assume there are some other gals that feel the same way I do on those days. I am just having a rough week. I just needed to connect with someone.
Wendy
Full Version: pre - period madness
I had a week like that a week ago, which has not happened to such an extreme for a long time. It was horrific. I almost left my family. I was a total emotional wreck, upset about everything, yet didn't have one shred of rational cells left in my brain to realize it was mostly due to hormones. Extreme over-reactions to everything. I just sobbed for hours, hated myself, felt everyone would be better off without me, ruminated on all the mistakes I've made as a mother, you name it, I agonized over it.
I'm 56 and since periods are now erratic anyway, I wasn't expecting one since I'd had a light one a few weeks prior. But then lo and behold, I woke up bleeding with such a sense of peace and calm. It was like flipping a switch. I had stopped the estrogel, thinking I might be getting too much, little did I know I was due to have a period, when the P is higher anyway, or I would not have stopped it then.
Just hang in there and know that it will pass as soon as you have your period. Easy to say, I know. If anyone had DARED to tell me in the midst of my insanity that it was probably hormones, I would have had to commit murder, yet if I see any other woman acting that way, that's exactly what I would think also. Why is it that even though we've been down this road before and we KNOW in ex post facto that it's hormones, that we cannot seem to remember that the next time it happens so that we don't blow things so out of proportion.
I'm convinced stopping the E precipitated the awfulness. It's the high P in the week or two prior to my period that causes all the problems.
I'm 56 and since periods are now erratic anyway, I wasn't expecting one since I'd had a light one a few weeks prior. But then lo and behold, I woke up bleeding with such a sense of peace and calm. It was like flipping a switch. I had stopped the estrogel, thinking I might be getting too much, little did I know I was due to have a period, when the P is higher anyway, or I would not have stopped it then.
Just hang in there and know that it will pass as soon as you have your period. Easy to say, I know. If anyone had DARED to tell me in the midst of my insanity that it was probably hormones, I would have had to commit murder, yet if I see any other woman acting that way, that's exactly what I would think also. Why is it that even though we've been down this road before and we KNOW in ex post facto that it's hormones, that we cannot seem to remember that the next time it happens so that we don't blow things so out of proportion.
I'm convinced stopping the E precipitated the awfulness. It's the high P in the week or two prior to my period that causes all the problems.
QUOTE (Sariah @ Feb 26 2009, 05:24 PM) 
I had a week like that a week ago, which has not happened to such an extreme for a long time. It was horrific. I almost left my family. I was a total emotional wreck, upset about everything, yet didn't have one shred of rational cells left in my brain to realize it was mostly due to hormones. Extreme over-reactions to everything. I just sobbed for hours, hated myself, felt everyone would be better off without me, ruminated on all the mistakes I've made as a mother, you name it, I agonized over it.
I'm 56 and since periods are now erratic anyway, I wasn't expecting one since I'd had a light one a few weeks prior. But then lo and behold, I woke up bleeding with such a sense of peace and calm. It was like flipping a switch. I had stopped the estrogel, thinking I might be getting too much, little did I know I was due to have a period, when the P is higher anyway, or I would not have stopped it then.
Just hang in there and know that it will pass as soon as you have your period. Easy to say, I know. If anyone had DARED to tell me in the midst of my insanity that it was probably hormones, I would have had to commit murder, yet if I see any other woman acting that way, that's exactly what I would think also. Why is it that even though we've been down this road before and we KNOW in ex post facto that it's hormones, that we cannot seem to remember that the next time it happens so that we don't blow things so out of proportion.
I'm convinced stopping the E precipitated the awfulness. It's the high P in the week or two prior to my period that causes all the problems.
I'm 56 and since periods are now erratic anyway, I wasn't expecting one since I'd had a light one a few weeks prior. But then lo and behold, I woke up bleeding with such a sense of peace and calm. It was like flipping a switch. I had stopped the estrogel, thinking I might be getting too much, little did I know I was due to have a period, when the P is higher anyway, or I would not have stopped it then.
Just hang in there and know that it will pass as soon as you have your period. Easy to say, I know. If anyone had DARED to tell me in the midst of my insanity that it was probably hormones, I would have had to commit murder, yet if I see any other woman acting that way, that's exactly what I would think also. Why is it that even though we've been down this road before and we KNOW in ex post facto that it's hormones, that we cannot seem to remember that the next time it happens so that we don't blow things so out of proportion.
I'm convinced stopping the E precipitated the awfulness. It's the high P in the week or two prior to my period that causes all the problems.
I Take BHRT progesterone daily 65 mg. I still have a period every month so I am far from Post but wish I'd just get there ! Thanks for the encouragement
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