yet another TOM post...

paulaGetshealthy
paulaGetshealthy Posts: 464
edited October 1 in Health and Weight Loss
I get ALL of the symptoms that come with TOM: cramps, bloating, fatigue (which is totally killing me lately), crazy emotions; you name it!

However, I get them a week prior to TOM's arrival! No fair! TOM only stays in town for about 2 days, but the entire week before that I feel terrible. And the weight gain totally sucks.

Does this happen to any of you, too? And how on earth do you deal with the fatigue?
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  • Avalonis
    Avalonis Posts: 1,540 Member
    I like to stab men in the temple with scissors and shove a baseball bat....

    Oh, women only, my bad again.
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    Work out!! Getting a little fitness in during that week really helps with all of these symptoms.
  • paulaGetshealthy
    paulaGetshealthy Posts: 464
    I like to stab men in the temple with scissors and shove a baseball bat....

    Oh, women only, my bad again.

    I'll have to try that!
  • brewingaz
    brewingaz Posts: 1,136 Member
    The only thing I get during that TOM is a nagging wife, a headache from her nagging, and really tired from her nagging. Those are my TOM symptoms.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    Isn't TOM that guy from Myspace? :smokin:
  • LoveleeB
    LoveleeB Posts: 560 Member
    *shoots self in the head*
  • paulaGetshealthy
    paulaGetshealthy Posts: 464
    The only thing I get during that TOM is a nagging wife, a headache from her nagging, and really tired from her nagging. Those are my TOM symptoms.

    It affects men, too?? Why am I barely finding out?
  • paulaGetshealthy
    paulaGetshealthy Posts: 464
    Ah, I love your replies! haha :D
  • brewingaz
    brewingaz Posts: 1,136 Member
    The only thing I get during that TOM is a nagging wife, a headache from her nagging, and really tired from her nagging. Those are my TOM symptoms.

    It affects men, too?? Why am I barely finding out?

    OMG women are so not observant!!!!!!!
  • bry_all01
    bry_all01 Posts: 3,100 Member
    Did you recently start TOM for the first time? If not, did these symptoms just start recently occurring?
  • hush7hush
    hush7hush Posts: 2,273 Member
    These posts make me so glad I don't bleed monthly. [:
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    This doesn't happen to me. I'm sorry I can't help. I get cramps for about 4 hours on day one and then I bleed from my vagina for about 5 days. That's it.
  • bry_all01
    bry_all01 Posts: 3,100 Member
    These posts make me so glad I don't bleed monthly. [:


    me. freaking. too.
  • paulaGetshealthy
    paulaGetshealthy Posts: 464
    Did you recently start TOM for the first time? If not, did these symptoms just start recently occurring?

    I've had TOM for years, and I've always had these symptoms :( Doctor prescribed something for the cramps, but I guess I have to deal with the fatigue and mood-changes on my own.
  • brewingaz
    brewingaz Posts: 1,136 Member
    Did you recently start TOM for the first time? If not, did these symptoms just start recently occurring?

    I've had TOM for years, and I've always had these symptoms :( Doctor prescribed something for the cramps, but I guess I have to deal with the fatigue and mood-changes on my own.

    You won't deal with them alone. Your significant other will go through it too :)
  • AmerTunsi
    AmerTunsi Posts: 655 Member
    TOM is a strange fella .. I've never had symptoms before in my life. Only since I started working out regularly do I now get them... I used to be so happy not to be able to relate or understand cramps, tender breasts, and mood swings. *sigh* But, yes I get them before it arrives, that is now how i know it is coming...
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Did you recently start TOM for the first time? If not, did these symptoms just start recently occurring?

    I've had TOM for years, and I've always had these symptoms :( Doctor prescribed something for the cramps, but I guess I have to deal with the fatigue and mood-changes on my own.

    You won't deal with them alone. Your significant other will go through it too :)

    And all of us. We're with you now, too.
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    Did you recently start TOM for the first time? If not, did these symptoms just start recently occurring?

    I've had TOM for years, and I've always had these symptoms :( Doctor prescribed something for the cramps, but I guess I have to deal with the fatigue and mood-changes on my own.


    Have you tried taking Midol? Most women have these symptoms every. month. until they're like, older.
  • bry_all01
    bry_all01 Posts: 3,100 Member
    Did you recently start TOM for the first time? If not, did these symptoms just start recently occurring?

    I've had TOM for years, and I've always had these symptoms :( Doctor prescribed something for the cramps, but I guess I have to deal with the fatigue and mood-changes on my own.

    I missed the mood changing and fatigue questions.... Uh, exercise through it to get some endorphines that will make you happier.. I dunno. I don't get it anymore.
  • brewingaz
    brewingaz Posts: 1,136 Member
    Did you recently start TOM for the first time? If not, did these symptoms just start recently occurring?

    I've had TOM for years, and I've always had these symptoms :( Doctor prescribed something for the cramps, but I guess I have to deal with the fatigue and mood-changes on my own.

    You won't deal with them alone. Your significant other will go through it too :)

    And all of us. We're with you now, too.

    Contrarian is right. We're all one big happy vaginally bleeding community.
  • ginny1214
    ginny1214 Posts: 338
    Thank you implanon for giving me one day of crazy emotions that make me need to go to the gym to blow off steam, and 2 day periods if that's even called a period, and thanks for no weight gain during that time either
  • HollyTsiaussis
    HollyTsiaussis Posts: 415 Member
    I like to stab men in the temple with scissors and shove a baseball bat....

    Oh, women only, my bad again.

    LOL.
  • paulaGetshealthy
    paulaGetshealthy Posts: 464
    You guys are hilarious, but no help at all! ;)
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    I'm a fan of tubal ligation. I may have normal periods, but I don't have any chemicals in my body and I can't reproduce.
  • taranmisty
    taranmisty Posts: 48 Member
    Get a Mirena IUD. No menses and fully functional 365!
  • cschu544
    cschu544 Posts: 320 Member
    You are the only person I've ever heard of that has the same EXACT TOM as I do. My cramps come a week early along with ALL of the stupid bloating and all that... a week early. None of my friends can ever relate. Then I start seeing my chocolate intake going up and I know it's coming. I hold my water wait for like 7 days, then when TOM comes it's only a 2 day cycle (with maybe a few days of spotting) But seriously. I totally get where you're coming from. My boyfriend actually get's a warning from me the week before... my mood swings are terrible, I wish I could control them but I can't. No good.. TOM sucks.
  • jwgca
    jwgca Posts: 44
    i don't think i can say " i feel your pain " but i can sincerely say that i am sorry for the pain you are in?
  • futurefitgirl88
    futurefitgirl88 Posts: 284
    My only TOM symptom is weight gain ....never had any cramps or pain. But my bf does say I get incredibly moody and *****y during my TOM...haha :P which is not true (lol maybe a little)
  • AmerTunsi
    AmerTunsi Posts: 655 Member
    You guys are hilarious, but no help at all! ;)


    okay the reason you are fatigued could be because of the increased metabolism .. so it could be dehydration and not enough calories. You also want to increase your iron and potassium intake. That is how I avoid the fatigue ... the water helps with cramps.
  • paulaGetshealthy
    paulaGetshealthy Posts: 464
    You are the only person I've ever heard of that has the same EXACT TOM as I do. My cramps come a week early along with ALL of the stupid bloating and all that... a week early. None of my friends can ever relate. Then I start seeing my chocolate intake going up and I know it's coming. I hold my water wait for like 7 days, then when TOM comes it's only a 2 day cycle (with maybe a few days of spotting) But seriously. I totally get where you're coming from. My boyfriend actually get's a warning from me the week before... my mood swings are terrible, I wish I could control them but I can't. No good.. TOM sucks.

    In my house everyone knows when TOM is approaching because I get super moody.
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