I can not believe what is happening with me. I got my period a week ago today, I bled until Wed. Starting Wednesday up until this very moment my anxiety is soaring, my breasts are still sore, I'm so angry.
Does this happen to anyone else?
We should start to feel better when we get our period, NOT WORSE!!!!
Please let me know if this happens to you.

Nancy

This is EXACTLY what happened to me this month. Before that I'd noticed some hotflashes before my period, and the usual pmsy stuff - although the pmsy stuff was getting worse - and then when my period hit it was over. This month - whammo! I got my period two weeks ago on Tues. - had it tues, wed - thurs it stopped - friday spotted - then nothing - zilch. Breasts still soreish, nausea, headache, bitchiness from hell! etc etc.

Hope this helps - Suzy

Suzy and Nancy:
I have had trouble this month as well. I THOUGHT I could track my palpatations by way of ovulations and right before my period but--WHAM to me too.....this month I had a period and then, at the end I had 2-3 days of palps, high heart rate, nausea and generally, felling miserable. I am assuming that the hormiones are fluctuating all over the place----it make life very difficult!!!
Chris

This is the pitts!!!! I am now on day 8 of my cycle, I started my progest cream on day 6 of this cycle per my GYN, because I am having such a terrible time.
When will this end????????
It is so hard to function everyday.



Nancy

Nancy,

Sometimes we just have to accept that things are going to be crazy for awile and don't put a time limit on how long that will be or you will just be disappointed. I also thought that when your period began to stop or become shorter and milder that the symptoms would also be milder. Not so. You are not alone. For the last 5 days I have had all the usual symptoms just before my period would start, bloating, sore and swollen breasts and nothing is happening. when will it start and what will it be like. I wait for the surprise. LOL

Dee

I am feeling like I am jumping out of my skin. This is day 9 of my cycle & my symptoms just wont go away.
I should be ovulating today or tomorrow. I am still using the Progest cream this day 5 of that, hopefully I will start to see a change.
Is anyone else going thru this, with the syptoms bad after your period???
Please let me know

Nancy

Hi Eveyone,
Just wanted to let you know that i have had the same thing happen since the very beginning of my peri. When my dr. started seeing the same pattern , she said "that's strange"... when my periods start , so do all of my worst symptoms. mostly the anxiety and insomnia. my anxiety goes thru the roof! So she told me NOT to stop using my progesterone cream for my period , but to use it straight thru for a month and see what happens , so i did and IT WORKED. Every month now i use my cream EVERY DAY and my life is much more stable. i was using 100mg. for the first half of my cycle and 200mg. the second half and i use 50mg DURING my period. It hasnt stopped my periods from coming yet so my dr. said to stay with it. but she also said if it DID stop my periods it would be ok for 3 months but then i would need to bleed for the next month and then start over again.ive been doing this for 2 years now and it works well for me. im not saying i NEVER feel anxious anymore , but when i do feel it it's very mild and easy to deal with by just taking a few deep breaths and it goes away. I hope this helps.

Hi Nancy,
I used progesterone cream for only two months and that was 2 months ago. While on it...I had miserable symptoms when I got my period...far worse than usual. I stopped using it. I'm not sure if I'll go back or not.

Please I need some advise. I'm on day 10 of my cycle & feeling worse as each day goes on.
The anxiety is horrible, I'm crying so hard righ tnow because I can't stand feeling like this anymore.

I need to know if other people are going thru these same symptoms. During & after your periods?
Usually I ovulate on day 10, so far doesn't seem like this happening today, because I know when I ovulate, i feel that pain on my side & sometimes it goes up my rear.

Please write back & let me know if this is happpening to any of you.

Nancy

nan I am exactly the same as you! I am day 11 of my cycle and the anxiety and head fullness is extreme! I have burning inside my head on the left side, my eyes are all runny and bothering me...I have a severe pain in my head, im lightheaded....

l think i won! Im sick from my head...I feel nauseaus and sick all over and it feels like it's coming from my head including the extreme anxiety! I can't find a dr. who believes me...I'm going nuts....

Im right there with you
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Lisa

Hey Lisa
I'm calling my GYN this afternoon & requesting she calls in a prescription for Progesterone cream thru a compounding company.
I've been using progest over the counter & it does nothing.
SHe is sick of hearing from me, but too bad, she is my DR & she should be able to help me. It's like they don't even want to talk to you. I hope some day she goes thru this the way we are, I think thats the only way they will understand.



Nancy

Hi Everyone,
This is the first time I have posted. I read the message boards and they help me, thank you. At least I don't feel like I'm alone so much. It seems the whole month is bad for me. I have one or two good days and the rest, I feel like I am hanging on by my fingernails. My husband was critical of me at dinner and can't figure out why I can't seem to treat any subject as no big deal anymore. I yelled back and now I'm crying. I can't seem to handle anything anymore, I don't have any tolerance at all, for anybody or anything. I am trying natural progest. cream and vitamins and exercise and it seems like it only takes the edge off, but doesn't help. I don't sleep well, I feel sad and anxious at the same time alot, I've developed a big tummy, even though I try to watch what I eat. I'm in my late thirties, but the past year everything has gotten really bad. I still have periods, even though they are off sometimes, and since last summer, I've experienced over whelming hot flashes every once in a while. Some days I don't know what to do, so sometimes I come here to read the posts and have learned a lot. Thank you, esp. to Dearest, I usually feel better after coming here. I going to try to go for a bike ride with my family now. I'm trying anything and everything to try to make myself feel better. It is really hard though. I'll post again sometime. Thanks, this feels better to vent.

Instead of keeping track of my pms days,i'ts easier to keep track of my "non" pms ones,which is about 3 or 4 days a month now.I used to get pms before i had a period and would feel much better and relieved after i started bleeding.Now i feel horrible before,during and after.....my worse time is a few days after my period starts.usually days 6,7,and 8 are ok,so i look forward to them.Pretty pathetic to look forward to just a few measley days a month don't you think?

Hi Pumpkin ~

Oh don't so many of us know the feelings! I, too, had this awful time sleeping - it lasted for several years and has just recently gotten better. Not only did any llittle thing wake me up but any little nothing woke me up more It was awful - just awful to be so sleepless. Hubby thinks I still have a 'sleep disorder' but I tell you, to me it's 100% better now than it was even last year.

I felt like you and Jade - just a few good days a month - usually right after my period. Most of the time hanging in there waiting for another 'mood' to set in. No one in my life had ever spoken to me about menopause so I was just expecting 'hot flashes' which I could not even imagine what they would be like. Oh to just have had hot flashes! To have just have known what to expect! A clue would have helped!

Then... without notice - it's all leveling off. I did have a period after 2 years without one but... tests came back okay and I'm just telling myself I'm back into this 'slow waltz' into menopause.

It gets better - even in the worst of it those few good days were such a blessing - not just for me but for those around me. Hang in there and keep coming back here. The message boards are great but... there is so much information here and the Guest Chats are sooooo great.

Take care ~ I'll be thinking of you...

Liz

Jade,

I know what you are saying. I too used to have just a couple of days a month that I felt bad but since this peri thing I have a couple of days I feel good.

Like Liz, I thought menopause only meant hot flashes because that is basically all my mother complained about when she went through it. I had no idea that anxiety, fatigue, heart palps, twitching muscles, dizziness, nausea, etc. were all part of it.

Hang in there. I love this website. I have found so much help and encouragement here.

Maeflower

Hi Lizi, Jadebear and everyone,
Thanks for the kind words, it brightened my day. The bike rides or walks outside seem to help a little bit. I slept better last night, and I'm so happy about that. I have started the Revival shakes too. I will read some of the posts on the message boards. I learn a lot from this website and all of you, thanks.Good luck friends, we'll get through this. And be stronger and wiser for it, I hope.

I told my gyno of 25 years that I feel worse the day after my period and for 3 or 4 days...... He said he never heard of such a thing and looked at me like I am crazy!!! I am going to SCREAMMMMMM!!!!!!

I seem to get the PMS now after my period too. I of course am at about day 10 of cycle and at my worse. The head symptoms, the crying, etc. It's just like PMS but worse, and not quite in the middle of my cycle. And it lasts through ovulation. My only real good days (which aren't great) are the couple of days right before my period starts. Very wierd!!
Take Care,
Faith

Faith - yes I too feel good only the few days before a period - when I get one

I think estogen levels drop after and between cycles and that makes us feel lousy!

At least that 's what my bloodwork has shown.

POOKISH

I'm exactly the same - feel good a few days before my period - very active - 1st day of period I'm not too bad - then wham! I feel like I've been run over by a truck -- anxiety is bad and I feel really unwell --- around day 16 of my cycle I start feel ing "human" again - I know how you feel and my heart goes out to you all -


(((hugz)))

Yes, that sounds exactly like me except I might not feel batter til about day 19. NOT FUN!!!!
My heart also goes out to all of us going through this! UGH!
Faith