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  • Umeboshi
    Umeboshi Posts: 1,637 Member
    I just wait it out. Pretty much all I can do.
  • steph124ny
    steph124ny Posts: 238 Member
    Tae Kwon Do. I get to hit and kick things. And yell. All in an acceptable setting.

    Short of that, it helps me to keep reminding myself that it isn't the situation or my kids or husband that are making me angry. It's just chemicals and hormones. So I take a deep breath, lock myself in the bathroom for a few minutes until I regain composure and fake being in a good mood when I come out. After 15 or 20 minutes, I realize I actually AM feeling better. Fake it until you make it.
  • cls_333
    cls_333 Posts: 206 Member
    This pill has helped me some, but truly, I just keep a calendar, know when it's gonna hit, and just say, OK this is why I feel like this, just ride it out, and it will be over soon. But I get so miserable and ugly with the world. Stupid PMS!
  • leslisa
    leslisa Posts: 1,350 Member
    If I stayed away from people every time I felt the urge to be a b!tch, I'd be a very lonely person.

    Haha!! True that :laugh:
  • culichi
    culichi Posts: 2 Member
    EXCERSISe sometime helps but I don't think there is anything out there that really help. I feel sorry for my kids, they are the ones paying for my mood swings all the time, I'm a Grumpy mom, and I can't help it
  • alyson820
    alyson820 Posts: 448 Member
    I take evening primrose oil to help my horrendous PMS. I think it's helped a bit? There's less bodies in the yard lately, anyway.
  • kstrunk1
    kstrunk1 Posts: 462 Member
    Chocolate. Tylenol (hormone supressor). Aspirin (blood thinner - helps and don't care why). Exercise. Telling myself I control the monster. It does not control me. Seriously, I repeat it to myself when I start to realize I'm getting really p*ssy.

    Good luck!

    My tired eyes completely skipped over the period and simply processed "chocolate tylenol". My next thought was, omg - I want some. :laugh:

    ETA I think they could be onto something there though - market chocolate tylenol to all the ladies with monster PMS

    ^^This cracked me up to the point that I just snorted and the water I was drinking flew out of my nose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • going2befit4ever
    going2befit4ever Posts: 225 Member
    i take midol and use it as a learning tool to teach my sons that women can't always be nice quiet and amicable
  • MelMena
    MelMena Posts: 152 Member
    First: I tell my husband. He goes into Doomsday Prepper mode. After that I pretty much just try to get through the next week without making the kids cry, getting fired, engaging in road rage or estranging myself from my husband.

    Oh, and I make sure that I have plenty of healthy snacks on hand. I will blow through a box of cookies in 2.2 if I don't.
  • Erisad
    Erisad Posts: 1,580
    I get really pissy and self-critical. I cry more for little-to-no reason and I crave chocolate, peanut butter and pickles but not always at the same time, lol. >.<
  • beansprouts
    beansprouts Posts: 410 Member
    Chocolate was always my drug of choice.
  • louised88
    louised88 Posts: 159
    i crave simple carbs, i try to limit myself to a couple squares of dark chocolate or one bar of milk if it's really bad. otherwise it's a cup of tea, a hot bath and a hot water bottle if I'm at home, and painkillers with codeine, ibuprofen and caffeine if I'm at work.

    exercise is supposed to help, but I can't deal with it when I'm so uncomfortable, but since I've started hitting the gym/eating healthier, they haven't seemed quite as bad.
  • divediva2
    divediva2 Posts: 297 Member
    Chocolate is good, wine is better! :bigsmile:
  • holliph
    holliph Posts: 88 Member
    one piece of advice I can give is to have your doc really check your hormones (not everyone falls within the guidelines per the text books we are each unique individuals) what may be considered normal range may be just off by 1/10th of a percent and through you out of control
    there is a d/o known as pmdd
    I have it and if I don't take my meds all the time...I can rip off everyone's head in my house...eat a crap load of chocolate, carbs (never salt was never into that)...half the time I cant even explain why I get upset...it is the dumbest stuff in the world to get mad about.
    plus having those levels nice & even keel has helped keep some not so nice belly fat off and helped my metabolism kick back in ( i have a double whammy with the pmdd & a thyroid problem)
    what i would recommend before you go into your doc is to track your symptoms/moods for a good month (if you can hang on that long) so it gives them a better understanding of what you are going through. there are a ton of apps out there for the smartphones which will help with this...I use pink pad pro...I can edit notes in there and such beside just the typical pre loaded stuff

    I like the way I am now back to my usual optimistic self that generally sees the cup as half full...if I start seeing it as half empty then I know its time to get a recheck...or else my BF/hubby will tell me I am being a B*tch again...something neither one of us likes

    I hope this helps

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