Guys, this is a question about periods, so you might want to go and talk about sports or something. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Anyways, we’ve covered the whole “extra-clumsy during our periods” topic, but what about this-when I get my period, I find that I also feel kind of out of it. My brain feels kind of foggy, and I feel kind of slow and wonky.
Anyone else?
yep. Sometimes.
Really just want to crawl under the covers and snooze, for the most part.
It’s probably all the drugs I take to tone down the pain, but yes.
Worst Time at Which to Start Your Period and Have your Brain Zonk Out: 5 minutes into your LSAT.
I get headachy, blurry vision, stomach pains and I also feel shakey. I have yet to take a pill which made me feel normal. I would love to never have another period again.
When it’s that time of the month for me, I feel like I have the flu.
Mine always made me groggy and cranky when they started, so I would take a few Tylenol PMs and pass out. 
Thank goodness for Depo Provera shots…I’ve had maybe 2 or 3 periods in the past two years.
Same happens to me. Only with reaaaally bad cramps, too! Yay! I’ve never taken my temperature during it, but I sure as hell feel like I’ve got a high-grade fever. Sweaty, shaky, no appetite…
Innit great to be a girl? :dubious:
I become very inarticulate and rambling when I’m talking to someone. I forget words and stutter and sound like a complete idiot.
I am also exhausted during this time.
This past Friday I started my period. While I was working. In the middle of the Everglades(which sucks because sometimes I’m standing in waist deep water for hours at a time with no freakin’ way to change a tampon…but I digress).
While waiting for the helicopter to pick me up at one site, I got down on my knees (the water was only about a couple of feet deep) and fell asleep for fifteen minutes. Right there in the alligator swamp! I call exhaustion like that blood fatigue. I blame my anemia.
Yes! That’s it exactly. I feel like I’m severely drugged up-which is one reason I try to avoid taking anything unless my cramps are really severe, or else when I go to bed.
Bloke input:
How is this TMI!!! I’ve had far more graphic detail offered to me uninvited, one-to-one…
But hey, I can contribute as well…I did have one girlfriend that would get very tired, to the point of disorientation, towards the end of her period. I always guessed it was an iron or blood-sugar issue.
Not to rain on anyone’s parade (Trekibilia taunted me into coming over), but the day right before my period starts and the first day of the red sea, I’m sharper than I am the rest of the month. I usually have trouble sleeping, I dream extra-vividly when I do sleep, and tend to get a lot of work done that requires mental focus (organizing things, working, writing).
I’m lucky enough to have cramps that can be knocked out with a low dosage of over-the-counter painkillers, and I keep my iron levels high. I always consider myself especially in tune with the goddess moon.
Sorry, sisters. 
Hey, I’m listless and ADD the other 28 days of the month…
I guess it’s been my experience that most Doper guys really don’t like stumbling into period threads. When they see “Girls Only” they start thinking, I dunno, hot girl on girl action or something. Only to be horribly disappointed.
^ Nah.
One more for exhausted. All I want to do is sleep for one week a month, woe is me if I have an exam that week. I swear my test grade goes down 20 points automatically.
I get really spacey the first day of my period. The most egregious example was when I was driving home from my sister’s – a route I’ve taken sometime between a million and a million and a half times – and ran a stop sign that I knew was there.
Yup, got a ticket. Otherwise I’d probably have never known about it.
Yep.
Not so much during my period, but halfway through my cycle, or sometimes a couple of days before I start. I notice it most at work–all of a sudden, I get complaints for missing paper route customers, and realize that they’re folks I’ve delivered to every single day for YEARS, that sort of thing.
I also go through a few days of not being able to type quickly, transposing letter and such.
And I have two days per month of being really wiped out, where I need extra sleep.
THEN, after my period, I have about a week of being really energetic. If it weren’t so obviously tied to my cycle, I’d seriously think that I was bipolar.
I get slow in the brain, too, at that time. I have to type things over again because I can’t seem to get it right; can’t even think of playing Internet games because I lack the coordination; and I also feel that dragging sensation, like I have to force myself to keep going and doing. I could also swear I feel the ovaries throbbing, but it’s probably luteal cysts .
I’ve got the day 3 vomiting, headache and cramps. It’s not fun, so I’m staying home from college and taking lots of painkillers.
I feel like a bear in the middle of January…all I want to do is sleep, and when I’m not sleeping, all I want to do it eat–EVERYTHING! My gyn suggested eating proteins; said it would balance me out, and keep me full for longer, however, I’m not eating because my stomach is growling, I’m eating because I can’t feel full! How weird is that?
For the remainder of the month, I’m okay…appetite is low and easily satisfied, and I sleep a “normal” 8 hours a night. But, on that one week…