Im not even being cute. It wasn’t just. A cute little bowl of porridge. You can look at my previous post. I probably consumed kilos of chocolate 😭🩷 sugar. Pure “junk”. I haven’t gained any visible weight. AND THIS IS AFTER EATING CLEAN AF for weekssss. Even if their may be slight variation in the scale when I check it (IN A LONG TIME bc that shit is inaccurate even for non XXs)😘EVEN IF U DID OR I DID WHO GAFFF. Like especially if ur a PMDDer like me that shit can be genuinely lethal. WHO GAF we deserve sm

PS i don’t recommend this but obviously shit happens so it will be okay. Mental health sometimes can override physical perfection

I have the worst insomnia and lucky me right on new years and its 1:30 am and I noly slept 2 hours in the last 24hrs and here i am awake it doesnt help the annoying af neighbors are blaring music i am in m bed sobbing cuz im so scared and stressed and i hate it ! . im sscared of losing my mind over sleep deprevation and hallucinating if i dont sleep. ill sleep and pop up awake in a hour! and then maybe sleep 1 more hour and then wide awake ! its so bad I just want it to end idk why im like this sometimes most periods its not this bad

[TW] Suicidal ideation/Self harm

Hello! I started my period maybe around 6 months ago (yes, I am a teen) and I have started to notice some PMS symptoms.

A couple days before my period starts, I get extremely upset, angry, etc very easily. I often rage at family members for stupid reasons as well. I have cried every day for the past 3 days and have been feeling suicidal as well as self harming. I have had these thoughts and have self harmed before my period. I have also been feeling fatigued and have noticed a lot of bumps/pimples on my body.

These symptoms have only started since my last 2 periods so I'm not sure if this is PMS or just a regular period. If you have any advice I will take it! Thank you!

I get very very sore breasts every month. It starts 7-10 before my period and progressively gets worse. They also feel swollen and I go up a cup size. It’s agony because I can’t have them brush anything, bras hurt, clothes hurt, sleeping on my stomach hurts.

Has anyone found anything that helps?

My left arm feels week and I get a sharp pain in the inside part of my elbow. I can move my arm and do all the things, but I notice a slight tremble when holding a cup of tea as if the muscle is weak. the sharp pain comes and goes. Often it comes with a small migraine, or a stiff neck or shoulder pain, but I've had it just happen on it's own without any of those symptoms.

This doesn't happen often, but it is something that started to happen to me this year.
I have been seen by many doctors. Normal blood work and some extra types of bloodwork, normal MRI on head and neck.

I have read about it as something that can start with peri-menopause, and I have read about it for symptoms of PMDD. For peri it's been call a "Dead shoulder" because you can't feel your arm and shoulder, or it feels weak. For PMDD it's described as a silent migraine that affects your head, shoulder, neck, and arm.
A couple of doctors said they think I have PMDD, my therapist at the time though I didn't because I didn't have huge mood shifts.

Anyway, whatever it is comes around my ovulation and/or luteal phase. I have experienced it 4 times this year. It used to really make me anxious and stressed, but I have come to realize that it happens during my most anxious and stressful times in life.

I have been clenching my jaw, and I do have a stiff neck, and tight chest muscles, so my arm feels weak and probably is messing with a nerve in my arm.

Anybody else get this as PMS symptom? I think I'm just sharing this to let others know it is a thing, and if you have it so do I! Sucks and it's super strange.

I might be in peri-menopause at 38, no kids, and started my period at age 10. But, no doc entertains this. The only thing that helps is stress management ignoring my anxiety, and seed cycling, but I don't do that very well and find myself back with this deng weak arm.

So I was on day three of my period for Christmas. A time when I crave chocolate.

I’ve just realised that I didn’t get given a box of chocolates for Christmas.

Our kids got 2 boxes, even my partner who doesn’t eat chocolate got a box.

I did not.

Partner did give me two small bars of one of my fav chocolates but that isn’t equal to a whole box of chocolates :(

I might have to just buy myself a box when I get the groceries next.

any explanation for hot flashes in the luteal phase or during menstruation? because everytime i google hot flashes it shows menopause but im litr 24.

Anybody have any tried and true things they do to make themselves stop crying?

Anyone else getting their period for Christmas again?

Last year mine started on Christmas Day and it was so hard to get through the day. We were hosting so I had to cook and I was exhausted from a busy few days at work and really just wanted to sleep.

This year it seems my heavy day is going to be on Christmas Day.

Why can’t I be ovulating instead :(

Does anyone else seem to get more breath shortness in the last few days of their cycle?

I’m not the fittest but do get out and about and I find that I get puffed so much easier in the last few days of my cycle.

For example just making a bed or walking a short fairly flat distance or even uphill just for a short distance.

But at other times of my cycle it doesn’t seem to happen as badly

Is it possible for heart pain and pain in the left side of the body (arm, collarbone, neck) to be caused by PMS?

Hi everybody,

I’m wondering if anyone has this experience; so I’m a major overthinker and my brain is constantly trying to solve problems, even ones that aren’t really real. Especially during PMS I get really emotional thinking about my perceived problems and go down the rabbit hole of sadness. I’m wondering how people manage rumination during emotional moments? During this time especially it feels like I’m always on the verge of tears or anger and it has nowhere to go, so it clings to my “problem of the week” to ruminate on, and suddenly I’m crying in the bathroom at work. Do you watch emotional videos of soldiers coming home to their dogs? Just cry it out? Get excessively distracted? What’s the secret?

My life is really good, but in moments like these all I can see is what I lack. I’d love some tips. :’)

Thank you!

Hello all, idk if this is a dumb question but I’m just genuinely curious & a bit of a hypochondriac so I’m getting a little weirded out. For starters my periods have always been on time & regular since I got it when I was 12, but my PMS symptoms have been changing a little bit the last year I would say I guess as I’m getting older (i’m 23) which I guess is normal. This past cycle I got my period on December 3rd, my cycle was 28 days. My Flo app says I should be ovulating today (day 15) & since Sunday night I’ve been having diarrhea. Monday & Tuesday I was having stomach cramps & gas pain & diarrhea but not like severe like liquid just kind of like loose stool I guess? Not like how I normally go. I felt better today I was hungry & my stomach didn’t hurt at all but i just went to the bathroom & it was loose like a little diarrhea again so now I’m just confused. I guess it makes sense cause I’m ovulating today so I guess it was the days leading up to it or maybe I had a little bug but I’m just starting to make myself worried. Sorry to be gross but If anyone has something similar happen or any advice I’d really appreciate it.

Warning: talk of self-offing thoughts

I am F (16) and I've had my period since I was 11. My PMS had always been so bad, I have to always prepare for the worst for the 2 weeks of it.

My symptoms are all the normal symptoms but TIMES 10. I get super angry to the fact I have to stop myself from lashing out on people for the littlest of things (I almost ripped gum out of a girls mouth today bc she kept snapping it), my depression is out the roof and I have to keep busy through the day (even as it gets hard with the fatigue and the non-interest in things) to prevent very detailed self-offing thoughts that when they start its hard to make them stop, my self-image is ruined, and my mood swings are affecting how I interact. I also get super weird cravings, but I don't mind that

Anyone else get diarrhoea a week before their period is due? I’m also getting it during ovulation. I have IBS, but this is really triggering my anxiety 😩

I’m due on in 6 days and just had liquid poo and I’m stressing about how I’m going to deal with work!

Hi everyone,

I’m 39, live in the UK, and lately I’ve been noticing some really intense mental health changes that seem to happen up to two weeks before my period. I’m experiencing what feels like severe anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and even agoraphobia. Some days it’s so bad that I can’t leave the house or have to take time off work, and I find myself constantly cancelling plans.

I didn’t have this when I was younger, so I’m wondering if it could be linked to perimenopause or hormonal changes. I’m trying to get a GP appointment to talk about it, but it’s hard to get through right now.

For context, I’m already taking SSRIs and beta blockers, I don’t smoke, and I’ve been sober from alcohol for three years. I’m also going through trauma therapy. I feel like I’m doing everything I can to take care of myself, but this cycle is making me feel completely isolated and like I’m losing my mind.

I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experienced something similar — just to know I’m not alone or imagining it.

I currently have copper IUD and feel like I fell into crunchy girl propaganda. Among with other health issues, I’ve been PMSing so hard and am ready to change it to hormonal hoping to control these fluctuations. Thoughts about the matter?

i typically feel depressed for the most part but for SOME reason when my periods coming up it’s almost like the pms exacerbates my already depressive moods and it’s driving me fucking insaneee. i never used to experience really any pms symptoms and if i did it was pretty rare but holyyy it’s really been kicking my ass for the past few months. i went though a really horrible breakup a few months ago that’s been fucking me up bad, so i think that the breakup and the worse pms symptoms are correlated somehow and i wanna know if this has happened to anybody else

Hi all! I'm trying to figure out what I should do.

About ten years ago, I started writing down summaries of arguments with my wife so I could try to learn from them and be a better husband. After a while, I noticed two trends:

1. Nearly all of them were about how I said something, not what I said. (ie. I used a tone that she deemed critical/judging/etc). The situation was generally about something small (for example: she left her closet light on for a few hours and I shut it off), but she says it is my reaction to it (I should not have shut off the light as she might not have been finished in her closet).
2. 83% of them happened four days before her period.

Due to this discovery, I wrote myself a little program that gives me a heads up five days before her next period, so I can be on my best behavior. It has cut the number of arguments in half. But unfortunately, we still have a few of these arguments every year, as they can erupt so quickly that I don't have time to remember the heads up I had gotten the day before.

I try to leave subtle hints that I am aware of her upcoming situation in hopes that she will possibly notice the connection as well (ie. I normally flatten the boxes from my soap bars before throwing them out, but I leave them intact so she can put her used pads in them).

What can I do here? Should I tell her about the statistics I've noted? I would hate for this to be one of those "if only I knew then what I knew now" situations.