The last few months I have been experiencing PMT that is just getting worse and worse and is intolerable to me let alone anyone around me.
Has anyone tried anything that really made a difference to PMT-related dperession/foul moods/raging anger?
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Thanks ladies, I'm making a shopping list as I type...including the cheese grater! I had to turn my phone off last night otherwise a certain yummy man would have had me shouting down the phone at him...god help him if I'd have been there in person (well there's always next month after I've got the shopping in) :twisted:
Mrs B, are the AD's specific to super-PMT? The way I'm going I might need them...
Evening primrose oil thirded.
It was prescribed for me by my GP and worked wonders on everything - headache, mood, even with the extra-pneumatic knockers. When I stopped taking it after 18 months or so the symptoms had disappeared and never came back.
Good luck sorting it out xxx.
Has anyone found anything that works for cramps?
I never used to get the slightest bother with pmt, so much so that I never used to know when my periods were coming and going!
(warning boys- not pleasant monthly talk- look away now....)
I've recently started getting horrible periods pains/cramps, and cramp up so much that tampons are getting stuck cos and are too painful to try and remove.
Normal pain killers and hot water bottle take the edge off, but i get sudden stabbing pains that have me doubled over, even in the middle of working with a patient, and take my breath away!
Does anyone have anything they've tried? Anything specifically for cramps? When I asked in the chemist they said now the pms meds don't have anything to help cramping anymore. :cry:
Poor me- got my hot pack on in the middle of summer as we speak!
I've also started being knocked for six the day before my period starts (which are irregular so i never know when that is) when I sleep for the entire night as soon i get home from work, anyone found anything to help with that?!!?
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Just spoke to Mr and we've talked about how angry and upset I was and still am about something that happened yesterday. I doubt I would be AS angry if it happened next week but as it is now, I could hit him. He feels so bad about it that he's offered to let me hit him! Deep down I know violence can never be justified in a relationship - I wouldn't think it was OK for a man to hit a woman however much they'd upset him so it can't be OK the other way round.
PMT versus my morals. If it was still yesterday the former might have won. :twisted:
* Vitamin B5 & B6
* Magnesium
* Calcium
* Evening Primrose Oil
* Dong Quai
* Black Cohosh
* Selenium
* Vitamin E
* Zinc
All should help with PMS. They are all hormone balancing to some degree, a good health food shop should be able to offer advise. There are some places like Boots that sell a multivitamin type supplement including most of these ingredients.
Exercise and a balanced diet will help, too much junk food will encourage the bloatedness and cramps.
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I know I've never had any problems up until about the last year :-(
massages, hot baths, painkillers all do a wee bit to help the pain, but don't take away the 'crampy pull' that makes me suddenly double over.
I don;t understand as i'm fairly healthy- eat a decent balanced diet and do enough exercise!!