PMDD-life
Anyone else who has or has felt the affects of this please share!
I started to get PMDD-like symptoms after the birth of my second son. I was 27ish and realized that every time Aunt Flo came around I turned into a bit of a looney-bin. When I was a teen my period didn’t affect me much. No horrendous cramps or pain, very slight fatigue, nothing terrible.
I’m now 30 years old, have had an IUD for over 2 years and my periods are not physically terrible but are 10X worse emotionally.
I start to get physical symptoms as much as 5 days before, peaking at about 2-3 days before. But that’s mostly headaches/migraines. I also get a lot of muscle tension, I tend to grind my teeth or clench my jaw. I start breaking out, get really deep cystic pimples (I have one between my eyebrows right now).
The emotional symptoms!? Lol, it’s unchecked anxiety, paranoia, irrational fear, some OCD-like behaviors, depression, fatigue bordering on exhaustion, irrational sadness, short temper, you name it! The part that’s the most awful is the anxiety/irrational fears that creep in. No matter how much I work to try to talk myself down from a ledge, in the moment I am 100% convinced of it being a “thing”. Everything can be perfectly fine or as close to fine as possible and I’ll be convincing myself it’s awful, terrible, I need to run away, etc. The emotional symptoms start earlier, like a week or week and a half before and slowly build before it’s really, really bad like 2-3 days before my period starts.
It’s exhausting.
