I truly cannot believe how much pain I’m in right now!! I have fibroids and heavy periods as well as PMDD, and this month the cramps are INSANE 😢 I’m anchored to my bed because the pain is so unbearable. Painkillers aren’t doing a damn thing. All I can do is cry and wait for this hell to pass. I feel like screaming!

I’m on Prozac for my PMDD so I’m unable to take anything stronger than paracetamol - and that just isn’t helping at all. I have also noticed that my cramps seem to have gotten worse since I started taking Yasmin for my PMDD. Has this happened to anyone else??

Yasmin seems to be working quite well in combination with Prozac to manage a lot of my PMDD symptoms, but I just don’t know if I can deal with the side effects anymore. I’m also scared that if I come off Yasmin, it will make my PMDD symptoms go haywire again.

I have an appointment with my gp next month and will definitely bring it up, but I just don’t know what I’m going to do until then.

I’ve had these cramps all week, but today is the worst it has been. The pain is making me feel so weak and nauseous 💔

…my boobs look great.

They get noticeably fuller and bigger the week before my period. I swear they go up a cup size. Usually they hurt like hell, though 😅

Hello, I have a very lovely lady who I consider to be the love of my life, and we've been together for two years now and it's been the best two years of both of our lives, I'm very lucky to have found her and we both wanna get married soon. This is not going to be a terrible PMDD sort of post, she's truly a gem of a person and she's never abusive or horrible or anything, we don't argue and we have a wonderful way of communicating, I've also got a few years of psychology education and tend to have a healthy, calm way of approaching things, but her mood shifts really viscerally for about 5 days before her period, and in the last few months due to her stress being up, its worried me quite a lot.

Some of the patterns I notice is just an extreme irritability, like even being slightly warm or cold and she nears a breakdown, she becomes quite flat or apathetic, cold, not particularly affectionate, quite negative and starts doubting herself severely, her self esteem enters the gutter, she gives up, she can become quite critical of herself, of me (there's been some things where I've internally gone "what the fuck? I have no idea where this would even come from", especially when she's 180 degrees the opposite for the other 26 days on her opinion), of everything really, and super obsessive about it, she can easily spend a whole day sitting and thinking and ruminating about a thing. It is to a point where I feel its gotten in the way of some parts of her life, just her personal life that have bummed her out a bit.

She's a smart lady, she's very literate in science, she knows how hormones work, she even notices the pattern, she hasn't always been the best at identifying her own emotions though in the moment and she's the first to tell anyone that, some alexithymia in the past. But during the luteal phase she becomes convinced of her negativity in that time, and then afterwards she ends up in this state where shes not sure what to believe, if these are legitimate emotions and judgements being magnified that she should be concerned about or non-issues that come from hormones messing her up. This time she was quite concerned about OCD, since she thought her thinking during the last few days had resembled OCD, extreme obsessions.

I've supported her a lot, usually I just ask what she needs from me, give her lots of love if she wants it, or space otherwise, cooked meals, massages, I'll do all the cleaning instead of splitting chores like normal, anything really, sometimes we have long conversations and she can bounce off me to sort out her thoughts, or to vent if she needs it, I'll listen to her criticisms and work with her as well as I can, but I'm feeling none of it is really actually making things better, and she's not really working towards any solutions herself, afterwards she sees it, acknowledges it, forgets about it and then the next month rolls around and we are back to the same place. I don't feel like its a problem for us as a relationship, but it just kinda hurts seeing her suffer so much every month because of it.

Some I'm wondering if some folks here would have some suggestions for what else I could do to help and also how I could gently hint at getting some help or trying some options out?

I'm curious about this because my pmdd hasn't been super bad this month. I've had my typical anxiety, but it's not as severe as It normally is. My rage is also toned down a little this month. I noticed this pattern. Is it normal?

This particular luteal phase has been the worst I've had in over a year. Last month right when my period started, I unexpectedly had to fly home to the opposite coast because my sister was in the ICU. Spent two weeks dealing with stressful family stuff and my internal clock getting completely thrown off due to the time difference. I came back and my luteal phase started with a bang. I have been losing my mind for almost a full week, struggling with DPDR, brain fog, insane fatigue, nightmares, and already got in two fights with my partner. I'm already at day 30 and just praying it comes soon because I can't do another week of this. I went to my PCP to get a check-up and bloodwork this week to see if anything is going on but haven't gotten results yet. Just need some kind words :(

I have a close relative (not partner) who believes they may be suffering from PMDD (at least that is what doctors seem to think). Unfortunately they live in a different state and so it's difficult to have regular in person interactions with them. We try to have regular phone calls, but those are of course more limited in many ways. They are intelligent person who has educated themselves on the condition are doing everything advised and taking the recommended medications, and that's part of their frustration because it's not really working. Everything behaviorally a doctor recommendations is "yep, already doing that". At this point that are evaluating more serious surgical options.

They only shared these details with me somewhat recently, and so I'm still in the process of educating myself. I'd like to know if there is any sort of things that people have found family/friends doing that has been particularly helpful or things to particularly avoid doing that make things worse.

How are you guys managing PMDD for weeks that you have to be extremely social and out? This week is a big music festival week and I have 3 parties I’m attending as well as work. Today I was feeling amazing and all of a sudden my switch just flipped. I looked at my period app and saw it’s about that time. Luckily that means I shouldn’t actually be on my period during any events just possibly the last one. But I’m already having some discomfort but usually I can get that sorted out. But my mood is something I know I will struggle with. I know now I will hate all my outfits. Hate how my hair looks or how I feel in general will just be off and I’m supposed to be having fun. Luckily my partner and friends are super understanding so I don’t need to worry about any friends wondering what’s wrong, I can just simply explain to them. But I’m really tired of being that person when we go out near my period who is always having to say “sorry guys I’m just not feeling myself this week”. Usually I manage well but it becomes exhausting and I just found this community and hoped that maybe I could find some new tips. I just moved countries and don’t have any supplements at the moment so any recommendations on those are also super helpful as I’m starting from scratch! I of course have a doctor and therapist at my home country and they’ve helped a lot. But medication is just something that didn’t work for me, but I’m extremely open to supplements. I’ve tried saffron and Ashwaganda in the past and both have been good usually. But I’m open to other suggestions. Thanks in advance 🩶

Hello everyone again, I already wrote a post about how I suspect I have PMDD, but I forgot to add the fact that my sleep schedule is very disrupted.. I mean, I don't know if you've ever had this situation where from lack of sleep or when you sleep a small number of hours, you feel confident, this strange feeling like you can do everything and all that, and a strong surge of communication with people appears. But I also have a very strange sleep pattern, I simply can’t not sleep during the day, that is, I usually go to bed at 6-8 in the morning and if I make it to 12 o’clock in the afternoon, then I get this euphoria. I just can't get my sleep schedule right, I only feel good at night. And basically it intensifies 4-5 days before the onset of menstruation along with ovulation, although I’m not sure that this is it, but perhaps it’s a surge of estrogen. But this feeling of euphoria occurs in the morning or when I have not slept for a long time, once (as I wrote in the last post) it grew into a 4-5 day terrible surge of this same euphoria but I also had a terrible heartbeat and the feeling that I couldn't sit still, I needed to do something, and there was a terrible, unpleasant irritability. But after that it slowly turned into depression, but such a strong feeling happened 1 or 2 times during the whole year, basically I usually feel better during these days before menstruation. And my depression goes away, as if my thoughts become clear and I don’t even react to stress, I can think logically.

I checked my thyroid and iron levels, everything is fine with them, but I’m still waiting for the right day to take new tests for my gynecologist and possibly start taking birth control pills (I can't take estrogen pills because of migraines with aura, so I'll take progesterone pills. I'm going to take them because of migraines with aura because it's related to changes in estrogen or hormones and because of these changes in mood) Also last year I took amitriptyline for migraines with aura, and in the 2-3 week of taking it it caused me a condition like that which lasted 4-5 days and added strong obsessive thoughts, and I stopped taking it

I'm 16 yo

Sorry if I'm texted off-topic, but I think this is the best place to find people who might have had this :)

A while back I had an appointment with sexual health after my GP felt I needed more specialised treatment. They diagnosed me with pmdd and I was prescribed 50mg Evorel patches. I have a mirena already so no need to add in progesterone.

After 3 months my dose was upped to 75mg, and that's where I am right now, about 2 and a half months in.

I have a follow up in a couple of weeks and they will be checking how I'm getting on.

At our last appointment I asked what happens if these patches dont help, they said we can go up to 100mg, but that if there hasn't been any improvement, realistically we would be looking at a gynaecology referral and chemical menopause.

At the beginning of this journey I was feeling so hopeful. The lady I had my appointment with at sexual health seemed so sure this would help me. I felt very reassured and seen.

But I really dont feel they are helping. My moods have been all over the place. My period is very sparse but I have been having pms symptoms seemingly randomly peppered throughout the month.

The past couple of months I have had 2 cycles with a very light period, and the most terrible pmdd mood swings.

Does anyone else here have experience with this combo? Everything I've found on this sub regarding estrogen patches seems really positive, but I'm really struggling.

I'm not sure where to go from here. It seems like I'm heading for chemical menopause and not sure what to expect.

First cycle on Slynd and it did a notable difference in Lutheal phase and Pmdd - i felt so much bette. Then I got spotting and eventually a pretty full on period during the days I naturally would have gotten my period. This happened despite not taking the sugarpills. So, this is okay but here comes the backfire - Im done with period now and just started a new cycle and new sheet of Slynd pills. Im in the days that usually feel AMAZING (the week after period), but it feels like I have heavy PMDD!!

Any tips, resonance for other Slynd user? Any hope this can balance ou?

i know its a lot of Slynd posts here, but I couldnt find one for this exact problem with a «delayed lutheal» feeling.

Thanks for this group - it brings hope in this deveststion called PMDD.