So, what are you doing later?
Horrible… I’m a fairly logical, unsentimental person, but I might suddenly find myself
- crying over a commercial, a single offhand (and not unkind) comment, or maybe just how the weather is that day (it’s sooo beautiful… or whyyy is it always so rainy… etc)
- wanting to watch a sappy ‘chick flick,’ when I’m usually a bit of a film snob and can’t stand girly movies
- feeling like I can’t do anything right
- becoming clumsy and forgetful - dropping everything, tripping, knocking things over, misplacing everything
- feeling like a horde of angry monsters are stuck inside me and trying to punch their way out through my stomach, my back, and one or both sides of my head.
- knowing it’s probably just that time - but either not figuring it out til you’ve screamed/cried/messed something up, or knowing and still not being able to stop it
in short: you are lucky. RAEG.
Rage. Short, short fuse for no particular reason (or things that usually irritate you slightly are all of a sudden almost worth divorcing over). I don’t agree with women who make everyone else’s lives around them miserable because they’re having a hard time, but keeping control over your emotions becomes much more difficult than usual. You still have to do it, but it’s HARD. And yes, it is getting worse as I get closer to menopause (I’m 43 now).
ETA: I should say, all your emotions become more labile, but crying at the drop of the hat is much less likely to get you arrested. 
Let’s not forget the constant feeling of impending doom, ladies. Plus feeling that every mistake or thoughtless gesture other people make are direct insults to you- purposely designed to piss you off.
Yes, it’s much more difficult to control your emotions. In my late 20’s and 30’s I took Paxil for the PMDD, but now I don’t need to take Rxs for it, because as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to control my emotions better. And I’ve learned to do other things to control my pms, like walking more, drinking less caffeine, sleeping more, eating comfort foods… and generally limiting my contact with the outside world.
having chocolate.
My friend and I did the hormone thing last week. Ended up having a lot of wine and asking my friend’s daughter if her new pilot boyfriend wears a helmet, and if so does it have “Loser” instead of “Maverick” across it, and does he play volleyball…?
PMS. Peurile. Malevolent. Shit-faced.
(Of course, “Captain Loser” has now stuck).
Did you put on weight?
Ducks and runs
(marking calendar so to know to wait 2 weeks before asking Alice The Goon to make him a sammich and bring him a beer)
I think if I could have had the normal tiny period with cute little almost cramps that lasted 3-6 days like normal healthy women, I would put up with a week of being the Beast … instead of the random weeks of interminidable bleeding out, labor quality cramps, and stabbing pain on ovulation that the endometriosis, PCOS and generally evil demon possessed inner girly bits I had without the PMS.
So then PMS is real, and not something that women made up in order to justify being a complete bitch for several days? Interesting. All I get is sore boobage to warn me lady time is approaching, then it arrives, and I stuff a cotton swab up there and move on.
Wow. I’ve never heard of my period being referred to as normal, tiny. Certainly not cute.
Can I interest you in some adorable Cthulu dolls?
It gets worse with age? Oy.
Yep, menopause steals PMS’s lunch and makes it cry.
Hey, Alice, I found a picture of you:
Oh yeah,PMS is real…and hubs already knows when it’s time to don the flak jacket.
The only cool thing about it is that I can get away with murder when I am PMSing. I can scream all the profanities I want at just about everyone and then say “I’m sorry,it’s that time of the month” and cry. Crying is a wonderful tool,but should be used with caution,lest others think you are milking the PMS angle for all it is worth.
The feeling of impending doom really,really sucks though. I worry all the time…hand wringing,nauseating worry…and then the PMS goes away and all is hunky dory once again.
I cannot wait for menopause. I really,really can’t.
I forgot to add this…don’t those “Have a Happy Period” commercials make you want to punch somebody?specifically,whomever thought up that stupid ass ad campaign?
Oooh me! I want to punch whoever dreamed up that stupid commercial. It must have been a man.
I never got “bitchy” per se, but I the most stupid tiny things would irritate me and just ruin my day. I could cry at the drop of a hat.
The worst thing is that all that crazy shit happened in the last year. I mean, I’ve never been a girl with um…light or even short flow, but the last year has been incredibly awful. You try bleeding for three weeks out of every month and see how fucking happy and energetic you are. I felt like I was teenager/young adult again. During that sucky time I had severe endometrioisis. Try having SIX MONTH periods! God, that was awful. Having babies cured that up until the last year.
However, I taught my lady bits a lesson. I just had Novasure Ablation and a D&C, along with a fibroid excision. Once I’m fully recovered from the surgery, I should have little to nothing in the way of periods. YESSSS!
One of my sorority sisters had Endometriosis. I was convinced for years that I had it too,but every time I went to the doc,she told me I was fine. I am just one of the unlucky few who seems to have a hard time for no apparent reason.
Wouldn’t it be great if men had periods? seriously. None of them would ever make fun of us again for complaining about cramps and freaking out over stupid stuff.
I would love to see the interviews in the locker room after an NFL game where Tom Brady blames his poor performance on “cramps”.
That’s kind of a lousy attitude. The people around you don’t deserve to be covered in shit because you’re having a hormoney time.
Tom Brady would probably have body fat levels way too low to even get a period…er, if he were capable of menstruating.
So, what’s the point of this thread anyway? I mean, aren’t we all in MPSIMS at the moment?
Oh…wait…