#Premenstrual Syndrome

[lympharis]

soporten.

[novellapink]

I'd rather punch bark on a tree til my knuckles bleed than to ever lay eyes on you again!

[ifisawyoueverydayforeverwill]

Randomly remembering and reciting lines from the shows I was obsessed with is a well established PMS symptom by now for me.

[living-with-pmd]

[awetistic-things]

me: i’ve been so down lately and life’s so messy 😢

*gets my period two days later*

[accio-baqat]

I swear if men had to deal with Pms we'd have a cure by now. I'm glad that my calendar remained why my serotonin levels took a nosedive. Still no fun when your hormones tango on steroids.

[camille-lachenille]

Can’t my PMS be over already and my period come please? As much as I hate period pain and the accompanying migraine at least I know how long it’ll last. But no, that hormones treatment (kinda like the pill but without the birth control part and plant based) I started two months ago to reduce the pain and migraine only messed up with my cycle when my period has been late only a handful of times in the past three years (I keep track meticulously, I know what I am saying). Anyways, it may have a positive effect but the fact it makes my period unpredictable is super unsettling. It’s already s difficult time of the month what with m y chronic pain and sensory processing disorder, but at least I can plan my appointments and such accordingly if it’s regular.

[tinkerclaw]

One of the most cruel symptoms of being premenstrual is the absolute joyless state of mind it puts you in. There's no difference between eating crumpled paper and a croissant.

[assasinationbycarscoveredinhamrs]

Pms is beating my ass rn

[trinitycove]

I've done a PMS gua sha routine 3 times now (done every 3 days) and today is the start of my "flow" (in quotes because with an IUD I have a cycle but do not bleed.) No cramping, no back ache, no mood swings, no bloating. I reduced my caffeine intake too, but like damn. Will report back next month.

[velv3tdream]

Pmdd is ruining my life

[living-with-pmd]

The Washington Post published an article about PMDD today

It shares the stories of several people suffering from PMDD and includes insights from a doctor who recently conducted a survey study on the disorder.

Opening up about our experiences and informing people of PMDD and PME can save lives.

[stromuprisahat]

I myself have often found menstruation to be an unpleasant experience. There are those who sail through a ‘visit from Auntie Flo’ (1954), enduring little more than a twinge in the abdomen. And then there are people like me, who firmly believe their uterus is re-enacting the Battle of the Somme.  For those of you who have never experienced severe PMS, allow me to paint a picture for you. It’s fucking ugly. Your body bloats, your tits hurt and you sweat uncontrollably. Your crevices start to feel like a swamp and your head is pounding all the time. You feel like you have a cold – shivering, aching, nauseous – and have the hair-trigger emotions of someone who has not slept for days. But we’re not done yet. The intense cramping across your lower abdomen feels like the worst diarrhoea you’ve ever had – in fact, you’ll also get diarrhoea, to help with the crying fits. As your internal organs contract and tear themselves to blooded bits so you can lay an egg, blasts of searing pain rip through you. Sometimes they’re so bad, you double over and can’t breathe until it’s passed, and the dull, constant ache returns. Nothing will satisfy the food monster that has been unleashed in your belly. It’s braying for sugar and carbs like a fat yak. Some foods make you feel sick. Some smells turn your stomach and make you retch. You don’t know what you want to eat, but you want to eat a lot of it. You bleed so much that all ‘intimate feminine hygiene products’ fail you – it’s like trying to control a lava flow with an oven mitt. You worry people can smell your period. You are terrified to sit on anything or stand up for a week in case you’ve bled through. And as you’re sitting, a crying, sweaty, wobbly, spotty, smelly mess, some bastard asks ‘Time of the month, love?’ And then you have to eat his head.

A Curious History of Sex (Kate Lister)

[eyeavatar]

“PMS is like micro-dosing depression”

[destroyedchild]

If you would ask how I’m doing today, I would say fine cause the sun is shining and the birds are singing again. However, in a part of my mind still a though that will never disappear in any weather : I’m afraid of myself.

I’m afraid of the hearts I will break, the objects I will throw, the projects I will quit and the thoughts I will have the next time the thunder comes.

I feel like I became the queen of broken things, in a queendom where I don’t have any control.

When the sun is shining through the clouds again, all I have left to do is repair all the broken hearts, objects and thoughts once more. Although I’m strong and I believe I can fix it all, it remains uncontrollably broken in the first place.

The queen is shattered too, and as the years go by, it becomes harder and harder to glue all the broken bits together again and again.

But today I’m fine.

Losing hope may be part of the plan, but its not my end, I’m lucid enough to still remember that through all the battles I’ve come so far I’ve ended up victorious each time.

[fightingxdragonsxwithxyou]

My day so far

Wake up with headache

Mind blowing* orgasm

Food

Ugly cry with big emotions for 2hrs

Play Taylor Swift music

Sit in sadness and feel all feels

Feel a little better

Chocolate

Start period

Say “oooohkay, yeah, that checks out”

Dance to more Taylor Swift

*dramatic effect, mediocre at best